‘Text-to-Speech’ Archives

No Tie, LLC has recently released AutoVerbal Talking Soundboard for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The application provides a way for those who have difficulty communicating the ability to speak to others. From the description: 3 ways to speak: (1) 100′s of built-in phrases in over a dozen categories (2) Program several buttons to [...]

The Acapela Group has announced an update to their high-quality text-to-speech engine software development kit for iPhone OS, with support for iPhone OS v3.2 and the iPad. Acapela TTS for iPhone SDK has been used in a wide array of talking apps available on the Apple AppStore, adding spoken feedback to rich content and inspiring [...]

Apple has posted the iPad manual in PDF format for download. The device’s accessibility features are covered in chapter sixteen, which also sheds some light on a optional feature which will allow VoiceOver users to switch text-to-speech languages on the fly via a rotor setting. Unfortunately, several VoiceOver users are reporting that these settings are [...]

Proloquo2Go is an iPhone/iPod touch application designed to transform an iPhone or iPod touch into an augmentative and alternative communication device for persons with speech disabilities. The software has been developed by Assistiveware.com, makers of the popular InfoVox iVox products. Despite its $189.9 price tag, it is a quite affordable alternative to hardware solutions which [...]

Apple has posted a video showcasing the VoiceOver screen reader on the iPhone 3GS. Click here to watch or if you’d like to read more about iPhone 3GS access features, Click here Enjoy!

AssistiveWare today announced a public beta of Infovox iVox v2.0. Version 2.0 brings Snow Leopard compatibility, significant improvements to performance and responsiveness, and adds a number of new voices including Arabic, French, German, Flemish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish. These voices work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application, including VoiceOver, AssistiveWare [...]

Assistiveware has notified customers that Infovox iVox v1.3 will not work under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due for release this Friday. Users will require Infovox iVox v2.0, which will be a free update to existing users of v1.3. If possible, the company hopes to release a public beta of Infovox iVox v2.0 by [...]

In the latest episode of the MacCast, a popular mainstream podcast focusing on Apple products, host Adam Christianson invites Shelly Brisbin, Josh de Lioncourt, and Shane Jackson to discuss the new accessibility features of the iPhone 3GS. We’d like to thank Adam for his coverage of accessibility on the show, and highly recommend the MacCast [...]

Apple quietly updated the VoiceOver Kit for the iPod Shuffle 3G to version 1.0.1 today. The download, which is currently oly available through the software update mechanism and not Apple’s web site, is 17MB and includes corrected pronunciation definitions for certain popular artists’ names and other unspecified bug fixes. The iPod Shuffle 3G employs VoiceOver [...]

The Mac-cessibility Podcast has been reborn as a round table discussion show, dealing with all things related to accessibility of Apple products. The show is planned to have a new episode once a month, starting with this week’s episode entitled "Reboot". Topics covered: Introduce this month’s panelists, including Holly Anderson, Darcy Burnard, Cara Quinn, Steve [...]

Little by little, we find these individual steps toward accessibility of Apple’s iPhone for the blind and visually impaired. This time, it comes in the form of an iPhone application called Talking Email Keyboard for iPhone from G.P. Imports. The software announces each key you type on the iPhone in a clear and understandable voice, [...]

Yesterday, in a brief post on Amazon’s Kindle Blog, the Kindle development team notes that they’ve received a great deal of feedback from visually impaired readers, and that they are working to make the Kindle more accessible in the future. Specifically, the post mentions adding speech feedback to the navigation system of the device. While [...]