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 […]
The Official San Francisco Website, now talking to you!
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
VoiceCorp has done it again! The official website for the City of San Francisco is one of the latest web sites to make their content more accessible by adding the ReadSpeaker read-aloud text-to-speech service to their web pages. Most of the pages on the website now have a ”Listen” button in the tool bar right […]
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 […]