Via-voice

[Brent Harding]

Wow, what I'd do with 200 licenses? I only really would need one. It'd be
neat to have viavoice in gnopernicus again, have never quite got that going
in fedora yet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at loc.gov>
To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Fwd: Via-voice


>
> >From: Hoffman Allen W <Allen.W.Hoffman at irs.gov>
> >To: "'dtb-talk at nfbnet.org'" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >Subject: [Dtb-talk] Via-voice
> >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:35:53 -0500
>
>
> >Message
> >02/16/04
> >
> >IBM brings text-to-speech to the Linux desktop
> >
> >By
> >Patricia Daukantas
> >
> >GCN Staff
> >
> >IBM Corp. researchers are bringing text-to-speech capabilities to the
> >Linux desktop.
> >
> >Previously, production versions of IBM's text-to-speech engine had been
> >available only for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms,
> >said Rich
> >
> >Schwerdtfeger, an IBM software group accessibility strategist and
chairman
> >of IBM's Accessibility Architecture Review Board.
> >
> >A few years ago, the company had made a beta Linux version of the speech
> >engine available for downloading, but took it offline when it stopped
> >working with
> >
> >later versions of the Linux kernel.
> >
> >The speech engine, together with a screen reader, converts text on a
> >computer screen to sound but does not enable users to issue voice
commands
> >to the computer,
> >
> >Schwerdtfeger said.
> >
> >Wizzard Software Corp. of Pittsburgh is distributing the IBM-developed
> >ViaVoice speech engine as a standalone product and a component in its
> >Interactive
> >
> >Voice Assistant line of products.
> >
> >List pricing for the standalone ViaVoice text-to-speech engine is $5 per
> >individual user license with a minimum order of 200 licenses. Volume
discounts
> >
> >are available.
> >
> >(Posted Feb. 16. Corrected Feb. 17)
>
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