IVONA - This Voice Is Not Really Human

Released on: April 3, 2008, 10:51 am

Press Release Author: IVO Software

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: IVO Software - the manufacturer of IVONA TTS, one of the best
text-to-speech systems in the world, has begun a global viral-video campaign
promoting IVONA TTS.

Press Release Body: For the purposes of the campaign IVO has prepared a short, 42
seconds long video which has already won 11 honors in the YouTube Science &
Technology category. In this video IVONA TTS introduces itself to the world at the
same time encouraging a viewer to test it himself or herself. This is accompanied by
human faces morphing thanks to the latest 3D graphics technology, speaking with
IVONA\'s voices. These voices are indistinguishable from a natural one. Find out for
yourself by clicking the link: http://www.ivona.com/news/ivona_tts_movie.html.

Everyone interested can try out IVONA TTS on IVO Software\'s recently created new
website: www.ivona.com. You just enter any text in the appropriate window and choose
the voice to read it out. Currently four voices are available (one male and three
female) speaking English, Polish and Romanian. You can send the voice message you
have generated to your friends via email or save it as an MP3 file. You can also
publish it on the Web (e.g. on a blog) or play it on an iPod or any other portable
MP3 player.

\"IVONA\'s virtual voices may be used by creative filmmakers. Each day a number of
videos with IVONA-generated voice overs are placed on the YouTube\" - suggests Lukasz
Osowski, President of IVO Software.

The speech generation technology developed by IVO Software is regarded as one of the
best in the world. This is confirmed by the numerous honors and awards it has won.
IVONA\'s voice quality was also recognized at the prestigious international Blizzard
Challenge. Two times in a row, in 2006 and 2007, it was considered one of the
closest to a natural voice. IVO Software was established in 2001 and since then it
has been involved only in creation and development of speech synthesis products. To
find out more about IVO Software visit: http://www.ivosoftware.com.




Web Site: http://www.ivosoftware.com

Contact Details: PR Solutions
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