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Monday, October 20th, 2008Finally! proReader has arrived – the superior reading experience! No download required!
ReadSpeaker “proReader”; the next generation accessibility tool to make websites speak has arrived. We have for many years been asked to add the function of highlighting the text that is currently read. There was no simple way to do that on a server-side solution. […]
From birth of the talking web and into the future (part 1)
Thursday, October 9th, 2008We have been in the business of speech-enabling web sites since 1999, date at which I had the idea to bring text-to-speech into the arena of web sites. What was my motivation for doing so? I realised that a certain number of people around me had problems or felt uncomfortable reading text found on web […]
Google Knol - now with text-to-speech
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008A few days ago Google announced that they begin to experiment with text-to-speech on their “Knol”.
Quote from their site: “We are experimenting with Audio Playback as an option for some knols, starting with a handful of English language featured knols. You can listen using our Flash player, or by downloading an mp3 file and using […]
Non Latin Support for the ReadSpeaker Enterprise
Saturday, July 26th, 2008In August we are releasing the support for Chinese and Arabic on the ReadSpeaker Enterprise Services platform. Please contact info@voice-corp.com or stay tuned to this blog to hear more about it.
Guest blogger: Speech syntheses – one for each purpose
Monday, June 2nd, 2008This is a post from todays guest blogger: Daniel Erkstam, Nordic Sales Director for VoiceCorp.
The pictures shows two robots. The left one is an industrial robot from ABB that probably is used to build cars or something similar. The right one is one of the most advanced AI robots that can be found today. It is possible […]
SpeechMachine text-to-speech in Viral Marketing
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008A sausage says more then a thousand words.
Scan, one of the leading Swedish brands just launched a really great viral marketing campaign using VoiceCorps SpeechMachine solution. The idea for the campaign is quite cool. The campaign is for marketing Scan’s new line of spicy sausages. They wanted to add some nice interaction with the user […]
The art of Server Uptime Monitoring
Monday, May 5th, 2008(Or; Good morning server. And how are we feeling today?)
In a SaaS environment uptime is everything. Rule is simple. No reliability, no credibility, no business.
So, how do we know that all the different servers with all the different roles are happy and functional? How can we see when more server power, RAM or disk space […]
Podcasting made simple! rSpeak VocalFruits
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
VoiceCorp announced today, together with VocalFruits, that they launcing the rSpeak VocalFruits Information Composing System.
It is a “Web 2.0″ web application where anyone can create a podcast from any RSS source and where content owners such as bloggers can offer their audience a speaking version of their content!
The blog posts- Bang! Right into iTunes.
rSpeak VocalFruits will basically […]
Software or SaaS for speech enabling?
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I have for the last 8 years worked developing SaaS solutions that in different ways speech enable web content. The business logic is quite straight forward; the customers (content owners) are the ones subscribing to and paying for the product and their visitors are the ones using it. So, it is a service that the […]
More about them Blades
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Yesterday we installed the new blade centres and the new storage systems. I felt like a boy carrying around new toys. With this worm and fuzzy “Christmas eve just after opening the presents” feeling. When we arrived in the new hosting facility, looking down on the power outlet under the rack, my happiness slowly transformed […]
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