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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 […]
Listen function as Universal design
Friday, October 3rd, 2008The other day I was standing in the hotel bar watching the TV. The volume was turned down completely but thanks to the real-time captioning I was able to follow the news broadcast. The day after, I was spending some hours waiting for my delayed flight at Heathrow airport to get ready for departure. There was […]
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 […]
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 […]