Posts Tagged ‘quality voices’
Infovox iVox adds first genuine children’s voices to Mac OS X
Last Updated on Monday, 5 November 2012 02:30 Written by iUseMac Monday, 5 November 2012 02:30
Today AssistiveWare and Acapela Group announced the release of Infovox iVox 3.1, which brings the first four genuine, natural-sounding children’s voices to Mac OS X. In addition, the update adds three new male voices. These voices work with any Mac application. Besides adding new voices, Infovox iVox 3.1 also fixes an issue with characters with diacritical marks. Words that contain accents will now be pronounced correctly in any foreign language. Continue reading
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Listening to documents with Read4Me
Last Updated on Friday, 16 March 2012 12:00 Written by iUseMac Friday, 16 March 2012 12:00
Independent developer Bas Meijer has released Read4Me 1.6.2 for Mac OS X. Read4Me started as a simple text editor designed for speech, to catch errors beyond the spell checker. Users can easily proof read with audio, create voice-over tracks for presentations, and even create AudioBooks to listen to on the road. Now it includes a tagging palette to change voices, or speed, and to tune the speech synthesis. OS X Lion’s voices are available in 27 languages, other vendors provide even more choice. Continue reading
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Listening to documents with Read4Me
Last Updated on Friday, 16 March 2012 12:00 Written by iUseMac Friday, 16 March 2012 12:00
Independent developer Bas Meijer has released Read4Me 1.6.2 for Mac OS X. Read4Me started as a simple text editor designed for speech, to catch errors beyond the spell checker. Users can easily proof read with audio, create voice-over tracks for presentations, and even create AudioBooks to listen to on the road. Now it includes a tagging palette to change voices, or speed, and to tune the speech synthesis. OS X Lion’s voices are available in 27 languages, other vendors provide even more choice. Continue reading
Tags: amsterdam the netherlands, digital books, english dialects, proof reading, quality voices, rate changes, speech synthesis, spell checker, text documents, voice coach | Posted under Mac News | Comments Off
SoundGrid Live! released for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
Last Updated on Friday, 1 July 2011 06:00 Written by iUseMac Friday, 1 July 2011 06:00
Independent developer Vitaliy Pronkin has released SoundGrid Live! 1.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. SoundGrid Live! is a new application in the SoundGrid family. SoundGrid Live! is a powerful yet easy to use Tenori-on-like matrix sequencer. SoundGrid Live! is based on the popular SoundGrid matrix sequencer application but improves on it in many ways and specifically focused on live performances. Changes include support for more layers and blocks and more performance modes. Continue reading
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Students Can Learn More in Less Time with Apps from TheraTech Solutions
Last Updated on Monday, 17 January 2011 01:00 Written by iUseMac Monday, 17 January 2011 01:00
Talking Flashcards and Study Fly Apps provide students an alternative way to learn by using read aloud cards that can be scrolled through automatically or independently. These apps save time for students, foreign language learners, special educators, and parents by searching Quizlet, host of over 4 million premade flashcard sets, and importing decks in seconds. Both apps use high quality voices chosen by the student to read aloud in one of two modes. Continue reading
Tags: academic concepts, academic material, deck types, flashcard sets, flashcards, iPad, iphone, language learners, Learn, modes study, need, pathologist, quality voices, Specialist, speech language pathologist, study, technology, vocabulary acquisition, way | Posted under Mac News | Comments Off
AssistiveWare introduces Pictello for iPad: Visual Stories for Everyone
Last Updated on Monday, 20 December 2010 09:30 Written by iUseMac Monday, 20 December 2010 09:30
AssistiveWare today announces Pictello 1.1, which adds full iPad support. Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi with other Pictello users through a free account on the Pictello Sharing Server. Continue reading
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AssistiveWare introduces Pictello: Visual stories for iPhone, iPod touch
Last Updated on Monday, 18 October 2010 12:55 Written by iUseMac Monday, 18 October 2010 12:55
AssistiveWare today announced the release of Pictello 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi with other Pictello users through a free account on the Pictello Sharing Server. Continue reading
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Half-a-Million Ringtones created by AutoRingtone users
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 March 2010 12:00 Written by iUseMac Thursday, 25 March 2010 12:00
No Tie Software today announced that an amazing 500,000+ custom and uncensored ringtones have been created by users of the AutoRingtone family of Text-To-Speech apps since launch less than five months ago. 9,999 Ringtones Uncensored PRO and AutoRingtone PRO give users the ultimate flexibility in creating their own unique ringtones for the iPhone, as well as other non-Apple phones. Continue reading
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