[Athen] Amazon purchases Ivona TTS company

[Sean J Keegan]

For those that follow text-to-speech companies (yes, I need to get a 
life), the news today is that Amazon.com has purchased Ivona Software. 
Ivona is the company behind several high-quality voices that offer some 
of the best TTS conversions available.  The full press-release is at:
http://www.ivona.com/us/news/amazoncom-announces-acquisition-of-ivona-software/

If you have not tried out any of the voices, check out the site at:
http://www.ivona.com/us/

You can enter up to 250 characters of text and have it read by their 
different voice offerings.

Take care,
Sean

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Sean Keegan
Associate Director, Assistive Technology
Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University
http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae