Seattle, USA - January 24, 2013 - Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it has acquired leading text-to-speech technology company IVONA Software. IVONA delivers world-class technologies that power the "Text-to-Speech", "Voice Guide" and "Explore by Touch" features on Kindle Fire tablets. Additionally, IVONA delivers text-to-speech products and services for thousands of developers, businesses and customers around the world.
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IVONA For Developers is a free portal, dedicated to those professionally engaged in software development.
It provides knowledge, libraries, and code examples – everything that hardware integrators and software developers need to achieve quick and efficient implementations of first-class speech synthesis solutions.
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Seattle, USA - January 24, 2013
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it has acquired leading text-to-speech technology company IVONA Software.
IVONA delivers world-class technologies that power the “Text-to-Speech,” “Voice Guide” and “Explore by Touch” features on Kindle Fire tablets.
Additionally, IVONA delivers text-to-speech products and services for thousands of developers, businesses and customers around the world.
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IVONA Studio – Packages
Reduce costs and increase productivity.
Create in-house professional speech for e-learning, multimedia materials, presentations and tutorials.
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“IVONA’s exceptional text-to-speech technology leads the industry in natural voice quality, accuracy and ease of use. IVONA is already instrumental in helping us deliver excellent accessibility features on Kindle Fire, including Text-to-Speech, Voice Guide and Explore by Touch,” said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.
“The IVONA team shares our passion for innovation and customer obsession, and we look forward to building great products to deliver world-class voice solutions to customers around the world.”
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IVONA Voices 2
Natural speech sound and top-notch quality voices for your PC or laptop.
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“For more than ten years, the IVONA team has been focused on creating innovative text-to-speech technologies,” said Łukasz Osowski, CEO and co-founder of IVONA.
“We are all thrilled that Amazon is supporting our growth so that we can continue to innovate and deliver exceptional voice and language support for our customers.”
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IVO Software was established in 2001 by Łukasz Osowski and Michał Kaszczuk, fellow graduates of the Gdańsk University of Technology, who continue their leadership roles today.
In 2011, they changed the company name to IVONA Software, its admired and recognized market brand.
IVONA Software develops and delivers speech synthesis solutions that lead the TTS market in natural voice quality, accuracy, and ease of use.
Our products incorporate innovative, leading-edge technologies and customer-driven enhancements that continue to earn awards and recognition by leading industry analysts and organizations, including the annual Blizzard Challenge and ASRNews Speech Accuracy Study.
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IVONA offers voice and language portfolios with 44 voices in 17 languages and more in development.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection.
Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.
Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
Kindle Paperwhite is the most-advanced e-reader ever constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% increased contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, extra-long battery life, and a thin and light design.
The new latest generation Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, now features new, improved fonts and faster page turns.
Kindle Fire HD features a stunning custom high-definition display, exclusive Dolby audio with dual stereo speakers, high-end, laptop-grade Wi-Fi with dual-band support, dual-antennas and MIMO for faster streaming and downloads, enough storage for HD content, and the latest generation processor and graphics engine -and it is available in two display sizes - 7” and 8.9”.
The large-screen Kindle Fire HD is also available with 4G wireless, and comes with a groundbreaking $49.99 introductory 4G LTE data package.
The all-new Kindle Fire features a 20% faster processor, 40% faster performance, twice the memory, and longer battery life.
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About IVONA Software
IVONA Software develops award-winning text-to-speech technology for use in the voice user interfaces on mobile devices, computers, communication systems and services.
Its text-to-speech products have been recognized as industry leading in terms of natural voice quality, accuracy and ease of use.
Today, IVONA offers one of the fastest growing voice and language portfolios with 44 voices in 17 languages and more in development.
The IVONA suite includes a wide range of text-to-speech solutions for consumers, developers who want to incorporate text-to-speech into their user interfaces, and business customers from a variety of industries, including accessibility, public announcement/transportation, telecommunications, e-learning and more.
Additionally, in support of its long-standing commitment to accessibility, IVONA works closely with the largest organizations supporting blind and visually impaired people all over the world, including the Royal National Institute of Blind People and the DAISY Consortium.
For more information on the IVONA Text-to-Speech visit
www.ivona.com
Media Contact
Amazon.com, Inc.
Media Hotline, 206-266-7180
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IVONA
www.ivona.com/contact/marketing
IVONA Software Sp. z o.o.
Aleja Zwycięstwa 96/98
81-451 Gdynia, Poland
+48 58 783 49 51
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http://www.ivona.com/en/news/
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