Fwd: Via-voice

[Janina Sajka]

Consider where this news story came from. GCN is a service for U.S. Federal IT staffers. These are people that buy in these kinds of lots. In no way was this a story focused on individual users buying one copy at a time.

Is this so hard to see? I trust not. 

PS: IBM does intend, according to my sources, that ordinary individual users will also have the opportunity to purchase individual copies.

John Heim writes:
> A minimum order of 200! What the heck?
> 
> At 01:29 PM 2/18/2004, you wrote:
> 
> >>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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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