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Nuance Vocalizer – Helping Blio to Find its Voice 1 comment
Nuance Communications and K-NFB Reading Technology Inc. announced today that the Nuance Vocalizer text-to-speech (TTS) technology will be available as a downloadable accessory to the Blio eReader Software when it launches next month.
Readers will be able to choose from Nuance’s “Samantha” and “Tom” voices. Nuance’s TTS technology will also be available to manufacturers who are equipping their devices with the Blio software.
“We designed Blio to offer the eBook market a device that fully maintains the integrity of printed media by offering a rich and visually-compelling experience to consumers. However, we wanted to ensure that these visual elements could be enhanced through the power of today’s sophisticated speech technology,” said Ray Kurzweil, voice-recognition inventor and founder of K-NFB. “With Nuance’s speech technology, Blio can now bring words and characters to life in a way that makes the eReader experience even more enjoyable and accessible for book and magazine aficionados everywhere.”
Nuance Vocalizer supports more than 30 languages and is optimized for integration with a wide variety of platforms, creating an exciting potential for fully speech-enabled consumer electronics. Nuance’s speech technology is featured in the market’s most popular consumer devices, including personal navigation devices, smartphones, mp3 players and a variety of PC software applications, including Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and the “voice” behind the popular Ford SYNC. Nuance’s broad mobile portfolio of speech and predictive input solutions are changing the way consumers interact with their mobile devices, and ship on more than four billion devices – a result of its extensive relationships with every major mobile OEM and carriers around the world.
