http://www.voice-corp.com/ http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-formReader-Offers-Interactive-Voice-Assistance-When-Filling-Out-Online-Forms/ The ReadSpeaker speech-enabling solutions for online content today launched an application for reading online forms out loud: ReadSpeaker formReader. ReadSpeaker formReader provides interactive voice assistance when filling out web forms. Both the fields that the user has to fill in and the text that the user has entered into these fields are read out loud. With interactive voice assistance, the risk that people abandon a web form is reduced, while customer satisfaction increases. “ReadSpeaker formReader makes web forms more accessible, which will result in more people filling out the form, says Niclas Bergstrom, founder of VoiceCorp, the company behind Readspeaker formReader. “This leads to an increase in the usage of web forms for websites using ReadSpeaker formReader and, at the same time, in a reduction of costs, since less phone assistance is needed to help users fill out web forms.” http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-formReader-Offers-Interactive-Voice-Assistance-When-Filling-Out-Online-Forms/ Tue, 18 May 2010 10:21:09 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-relaunches-its-ReadSpeaker-website/ In order to provide the most comprehensive information about all our ReadSpeaker products, we have relaunched and redesigned our www. readspeaker. com website. You will find there all the information and demos about our different speech-enabling web based products for web reading, mobile and podcasting, publishing and production, as well as personal services. The translated version of the site in French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese will follow in the coming weeks. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-relaunches-its-ReadSpeaker-website/ Thu, 06 May 2010 12:17:43 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-launches-ReadSpeaker-docReader-for-reading-online-documents-out-loud/ VoiceCorp is pleased to present its latest product, ReadSpeaker docReader. ReadSpeaker docReader is an online software service that allows users to listen to PDFs, Word documents and a variety of other document formats. It converts these documents in a web readable format, while preserving the original layout. ReadSpeaker docReader makes various document formats viewable in all browsers, even on mobile phone browsers as well as other devices that do not have built in PDF-, Word- or Open Office document viewing capabilities.  ReadSpeaker docReader is available as listen-icons next to the online published documents. When a document is opened using ReadSpeaker docReader, the user gets a toolbar with a speech button and a set of additional functionalities. By simply clicking the play button, the user can start enjoying the service. The user can choose to have the text highlighted while it is read out loud, to facilitate an even better understanding of the text. Since ReadSpeaker docReader is a fully web based service, the user is not required to download or install any special software to use ReadSpeaker docReader. This also means that website owners do not need to install software on the servers hosting the website or documents. “We are very enthusiastic about this new product which further enhances the accessibility to the content of websites. It allow website owners  to serve the broadest possible audience and provide an easy click and listen access to their online documents, ” says Niclas Bergstrom, co-founder of VoiceCorp, the company behind Readspeaker docReader. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-launches-ReadSpeaker-docReader-for-reading-online-documents-out-loud/ Tue, 04 May 2010 10:55:00 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-speech-enables-Corriere-website-and-iPhone-app/ VoiceCorp is pleased to announce that Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian newspaper, has recently implemented ReadSpeaker Enterprise, a web-based speech-enabling application to enhance the Corriere website reader experience and increase the accessibility of Corriere web content for everyone. This service allows Corriere website visitors to listen to articles by clicking the “listen” button at the top of each article, without the need for downloading and installing additional programs. To even further enhance the reader experience, Corriere website visitors can also choose to activate embedded highlighting, which enables them to see synchronized highlighting of the text that is being read, on a word by word and/or sentence basis. In addition to the website, Corriere has also speech-enabled their iPhone app with the ReadSpeaker audioMob application. By simply clicking on the listen button (headphones icon), which is an integral part of the iPhone app, it  will automatically start reading the text. This new feature for the Corriere website will allow those otherwise incapable of reading online content the ease of listening to Corriere articles. For people that are on the go, that don’t have enough time to read, or prefer to listen to an article rather than reading it, the iPhone app listen function is a new, useful way to access information. It overcomes the problem of reading from a small screen. VoiceCorp’s co-founder Roy Lindemann says: “VoiceCorp is very pleased to add speech functionality to Corriere’s website and iPhone app. By making Corriere’s website and iPhone app talk, we are providing a new and easy-to-use channel for Corrriere users to access information.” http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-speech-enables-Corriere-website-and-iPhone-app/ Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:25:13 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-at-CSUN2010-San-Diego/ VoiceCorp will be attending the 25th annual CSUN International Technology & Persons with Disability Conference 24-27 Mars in San Diego, USA. VoiceCorp CEO Niclas Bergstrom will be presenting on the subject "Speech enabling of on-line forms" on Saturday. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-at-CSUN2010-San-Diego/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:54:33 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Hebrew-SeniorLife-Enhances-Web-Site-by-ReadSpeaker/ Hebrew SeniorLife, affiliated with Harvard Medical School and a leader in geriatric health care, research, teaching and housing, has introduced a series of tools on its Web site to make the content more readily available to seniors. The new tools are designed to allow seniors to access a wealth of information about Hebrew SeniorLife’s health-care and housing options on the Internet. HSL is taking a leadership role in making its Web site (www. hebrewseniorlife. org) accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities, including seniors who have difficulty seeing or reading. In addition to a standard Web-site feature that allows listeners to increase (or decrease) the size of type, HSL’s new upgrades include a “Listen” button that reads text over computer speakers. The tool is geared toward individuals with visual impairments or reading problems such as dyslexia, and visitors who prefer to listen rather than read. The tool was developed by VoiceCorp LLC. “We strongly believe that the implementation of our ReadSpeaker application on the Hebrew SeniorLife Web site will help to give larger audiences easier access to on-screen text, in a way that was never previously possible, ” says Jin Mehta, business development manager at VoiceCorp. “We hope that the leadership and commitment of Hebrew SeniorLife to making its Web site accessible will inspire others to do the same.” Read full article. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Hebrew-SeniorLife-Enhances-Web-Site-by-ReadSpeaker/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:24:02 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Dyslexia-Foundation-of-New-Zealand/ The Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand has just gone live with ReadSpeaker proReader. Have a look at their implementation at: http://www. dyslexiafoundation. org. nz/dfnz_action. html http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Dyslexia-Foundation-of-New-Zealand/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:59:32 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-technology-adds-voice-to-Prattvilles-City-websi/ The City of Prattville (Alabama) recently implemented ReadSpeaker Enterprise Expanding Player. Read a review or check out their implementation here. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-technology-adds-voice-to-Prattvilles-City-websi/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:18:17 GMT News http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-speech-enables-RSS-feeds-on-the-iPhone/ VoiceCorp today launched a speech-enabling iPhone app, called “ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal”, which allows iPhone/iPod Touch users to listen to (as well as view) text RSS feeds of blogs and websites. The app, which is available for free, enables users to listen to up to 3 English text RSS feeds of their choice. To select the feeds, users can either add the address of the feed manually or let the app search for feeds on any chosen blog or website. With ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal users can: Browse articles while listening to other items by using the next and previous control buttons; Choose a setting to play all feed items automatically one after the other or manually; Navigate using the touch screen to listen to a specific news. Due to the inherent size of the iPhone/iPod Touch screens and its use in situations where someone is on the go such as travelling, commuting or exercising, being able to listen to the text-feed content of blogs and websites provides users with a convenient and easy-to-use alternative to just reading. Users don’t need to synchronize their iPhones to listen to the selected feeds, these are updated automatically and on-the-fly directly to their ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal app. ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal is available for free from the App Store. For more information and screenshots of the app, please click here. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-speech-enables-RSS-feeds-on-the-iPhone/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:24:08 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Major-Swedish-newspaper-awarded-for-their-mobile-website/ Our customer, major Swedish news publicist Dagens Nyheter, received a nice award "Guldmobilen" (The Golden Mobile). They received the award in tough competition with Sweden's most used mobile websites, where they were nominated in the class "Best mobile news service". Dagens Nyheter said that they've received the award because they've made their content accessible for mobile phones and because they've presented innovative solutions like an iPhone App and speech-enabling of its content so people can listen to the news. We would like to congratulate Dagens Nyheter with this nice award and hope that we can continue to work together with them to develop their mobile services even further in the future. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Major-Swedish-newspaper-awarded-for-their-mobile-website/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:38:02 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Listen-to-Dartmoor-National-Park-Authoritys-web-site/ Visitors to Dartmoor National Park Authority’s website www. dartmoor-npa. gov. uk can now listen to the content of pages by clicking the ‘listen’ button, which is located in the top left corner of every webpage. Dartmoor National Park Authority has added ReadSpeaker technology to its website, making it one of the three UK National Parks to offer this service. The ReadSpeaker’s proReader system is recognized as being of benefit to a wide range of internet users including people with a visual impairment, people who use English as a second language and people with dyslexia. With the increasing use of mobile internet and small screen sizes, the system is also good news for those wishing to find out more about Dartmoor from one of the new generation of intelligent mobile phones. Users can listen to the information they require – or download it and listen to it later. ReadSpeaker converts text and then reads web content out loud, allowing the user to choose the reading speed. The user also has access to a range of other options, providing a fully personalized experience that meets their precise needs - show or hide text as it is being read, change the text size and colour and change the language. Visitors do not need their own text-to-speech software to use ReadSpeaker. Click here for the news release. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Listen-to-Dartmoor-National-Park-Authoritys-web-site/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:13:42 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/MarketWatchcom-iPhone-app-powered-by-ReadSpeaker/ MarketWatch. com today unveiled its new iPhone application, featuring real-time headlines and news bulletins, real-time data, audio and social media features to serve the site's core audience of engaged investors.  The free application is currently available via the Apple App Store.  We are thrilled to announce that our ReadSpeaker podCaster application powers the text-to-speech function for the Top Stories section which allows users to listen to articles directly from the iPhone. MarketWatch. com is part of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, which includes WSJ. com, Barrons. com and AllThingsD. com. Click here to see the official press release of MarketWatch, or click here to go immediately to the MarketWatch iPhone App. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/MarketWatchcom-iPhone-app-powered-by-ReadSpeaker/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:05:11 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/United-Press-International-speech-enabled-by-Readspeaker/ United Press International introduces ReadSpeaker web-based speech-enabling application to enhance the UPI. com reader experience and increase the accessibility of UPI. com content for everyone. ReadSpeaker Enterprise is VoiceCorp's latest generation of web based text-to-speech services, bringing online speech enabling to the next level. This service will allow UPI. com readers to listen to articles in English and Spanish by clicking a small icon at the top of each article without the need for downloading and installing additional programs. The fact that most of the content on the Internet today is text based may create problems for some, but this new feature for UPI. com will allow those otherwise incapable of reading online content the ease of listening to UPI. com articles and features. Each day, UPI publishes its content directly to UPI. com , reaching a growing global audience.  Over 3.5 million unique visitors visit their web site every month and the number is rising. In January of 2009 alone, UPI. com received 9.8 million page views. Click here for the official press release of UPI or click here for the announcement on UPI. com. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/United-Press-International-speech-enabled-by-Readspeaker/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:33:04 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Centrelink-introduces-ReadSpeaker/ Centrelink is the first Australian government agency to speech-enable its web site. Centrelink is an Australian Government Statutory Agency, assisting people to become self-sufficient and supporting those in need. Centrelink chose the ReadSpeaker Enterprise Player Window product to help its users with reading problems get their online content spoken to them with just one click on the listen buttons that are present on their web site. You can find out more by going to the PSnews article at this address : http://www. psnews. com. au/Page_psn1812. html http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Centrelink-introduces-ReadSpeaker/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:15:15 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/SITA-tells-us-why-and-how-they-use-ReadSpeaker/ We had  a Q&A session with Michael Clevestig, the Senior Manager Online Marketing of SITA about the thinking that went behind the speech-enabling of their web site. You can read all about it on this ReadSpeaker blog post. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/SITA-tells-us-why-and-how-they-use-ReadSpeaker/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:47 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/New-Embedded-Highlighting-add-on-for-ReadSpeaker-Enterprise-Expanding-Player/ Synchronized highlighting now available! http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/New-Embedded-Highlighting-add-on-for-ReadSpeaker-Enterprise-Expanding-Player/ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:41:00 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-launches-new-release-of-ReadSpeaker-proReader/ Now web sites can have their PDFs read out loud ! ReadSpeaker proReader reads the text content of web sites out loud and puts users in control on how they want to listen and read the online text. ReadSpeaker proReader enables visitors to: Activate the highlighting of the text being spoken and customise how this highlighting should be presented (by word, by phrase, a mix of both or none). Pre-select the part of the text on the web page that should be read out loud. Choose the reading speed. Show or hide the text as it is being read. Change the text size and colour as well as the font face. Give feedback notably on any pronunciation improvements.   A new unique feature of ReadSpeaker proReader for web site owners is that they can now also have their PDF files read out. This enhancement enables the web sites that use ReadSpeaker proReader to make more of their online content available in spoken format. The new ReadSpeaker proReader comes with a convenient set of controls so that users can easily navigate within the PDFs and listen to the content of their choice. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-launches-new-release-of-ReadSpeaker-proReader/ Fri, 15 May 2009 16:26:08 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-is-the-Gold-Sponsor-of-the-European-Accessibility-Forum/ Web accessibility is of great importance not only for people using screen readers and other assistive technology but also for everybody else. Adopting and practicing the web standards is key to make web content accessible for more people regardless of device, browser type and operation system. VoiceCorp is Gold sponsor of the European Accessibility Forum held in Frankfurt on March 27. Read more about the conference at http://eafra. eu/   If you are attending and would like to have a meeting with Niclas Bergstrom (VoiceCorp CEO) please contact info@voice-corp. com. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-is-the-Gold-Sponsor-of-the-European-Accessibility-Forum/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:36:36 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/new-webReader-update/ Today we announced the release of a new version of webReader (http://webreader. readspeaker. com) for personal and small organisation websites and blogs. New in this version is for example support for reading in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Here you can see the new webReader promo video. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/new-webReader-update/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:44:50 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/New-VoiceCorp-Sales-Manager-for-UK/ Andrew Crisp has now joined VoiceCorp as Sales Manager for the UK to offer local contact and support to both new and existing UK customers. Andrew has a background in IT and has worked in technical and commercial roles with hardware and software solutions. This has included time working for Fujitsu and servicing global customers such as Compaq, IBM and HP. With his experience of the business uses of IT he will be seeking new partners as well as direct customers for the VoiceCorp text-to-speech services and look to continue the successful expansion of the sales network. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/New-VoiceCorp-Sales-Manager-for-UK/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:32:30 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-will-participate-at-a-panel-at-the-Yearly-French-Book-Fair/ VoiceCorp co-founder and CIO Roy Lindemann will be participating at a panel about online accessible content and electronic books at the most important French book fair called the Salon du Livre. The panel will be held on March 17 from 11h30 to 13h. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-will-participate-at-a-panel-at-the-Yearly-French-Book-Fair/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:57:26 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-CEO-presenting-at-the-2009-CSUN-Conference/ VoiceCorp CEO and co-founder Niclas Bergstrom will be presenting on the 24th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference on March 21 in Los Angeles. CSUN is arranged by the California State University – Center on disability and are presenting experts and trends in assistive technology and persons with disabilities, while also highlighting adaptive technology for aging and international practices. Mr. Bergstrom will make a presentation with the title “Text-To-Speech Service Going Mainstream - Audio Version As Universal Design” http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-CEO-presenting-at-the-2009-CSUN-Conference/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:29:36 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Launch-of-the-webReader/ We are proud to announce the latest of our ReadSpeaker products, the webReader! webReader targets all those personal web sites and blogs as well as small company and organisation web sites and blogs who want an easy and direct way to speech-enable their text content. We have been listening to the great amount of feedback we have been getting from these smaller web sites and blogs and have worked hard to come up with a one-stop web shop where you can easily pick the subscription package that is best suited for you. We also provide a free ad sponsored version for personal web sites and blogs only. The service comes in US English, British English, Swedish and French to start with and we will very shortly be rolling out further languages. Visit the home of the webReader: www. readspeaker. com http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Launch-of-the-webReader/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:53:15 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-US-news/ We have been present in the US for a certain amount of time with some very nice reference customers like Dow Jones (Factiva), the City of San Francisco, the O’Reilly network, New York Life, and many others. We have now decided to invest further in the Unites States and establish our first local office located in the East Coast to start with. We have also just initiated a partnership with Digital Journal. Digital Journal has implemented our ReadSpeaker Enterprise Embedded Player on their web site just last Friday and the initial feedback from their users has been very positive. You can read about our partnership with Digital Journal here. We are very excited about the growing media attention we are getting in the US and Canada and are only at the beginning of our expansion plans there.  So please stay tuned as we announce new customers and partnerships in the beginning of 2009. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/VoiceCorp-US-news/ Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:05:32 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-proReader-released/ proReader - customize the reading experience http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/ReadSpeaker-proReader-released/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:31 GMT http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Speech-syntesis-with-spanish-accent/ There is a big web campaign that rolled out in Sweden. It is Scan, Sweden's leading supplier of charcuterie products, that is launching a new product: A Basque sausage named Txistorra.  Within the campaign it is possible to send  a "speech-o-gram" to friends. The message is then read to your friend in Swedish but with a very strong Spanish accent. The Swedish web bureau Locomotiv has built the campaign and we are providing the speech for the messages. We have provided speech to similar campaigns earlier on. But the new and innovative aspect of this campaign is to use a voice with another language than the text. We used some tricks to get the perfect accent. The service used for this is SpeechMachine. It is our OEM solution for text-to-speech. We have two different price models for SpeechMachine. You pay either for the capacity needed or for the speech generated. Contact us if you are interested in speech-enabling a web campaign or a web application to make it more interactive or innovative. http://www.voice-corp.com/en/News/News/Speech-syntesis-with-spanish-accent/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:19:36 GMT