Acapela Launches Infovox iVox, The First Speech Solution For Mac OS X

Published 12th September 2006

12 - 16 September, Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles
Education Area

Acapela and its partner, AssistiveWare, launch a new multilingual speech solution for Mac OS X aimed at visually impaired and blind people: Infovox iVox. This represents a new step forward for Mac application accessibility...

Mons, Belgium and Toulouse, France, 12 September 2006.
Acapela Group, the first European speech group, will be present at Apple Expo, at which it will present its range of products and solutions for Macintosh users. This year, a major innovation will be introduced in the field of accessibility: Infovox iVox, a solution developed jointly with the distribution partner, AssistiveWare.

Infovox iVox is a solution that allows the high quality Acapela voices to be used in all applications compatible with the Mac OS X Speech Manager, including TextEdit, Preview, Acrobat Reader, Proloquo, AppleWorks, etc., as well as a number of educational titles. Infovox iVox can also be used with Tiger's integrated screen reader technology called VoiceOver. The product functions on both Mac PowerPCs and Mac Intels.

The languages currently available are: American and British English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Acapela offers a wide selection of high quality male, female and even child (American) voices for each language.
"Thanks to our collaboration with Acapela Group, Mac OS X users around the world get access to the best voices ever on the Mac", enthused David Niemeijer, AssistiveWare's CTO.

"Acapela Group has been a proud partner of AssistiveWare for several years now. Our joint efforts make it possible to offer the Apple community innovative solutions such as Proloquo, or even the new product, VisioVoice, which meet a genuine market need", stated Antoine Kauffeisen, Vice-President and Marketing Director of Acapela Group.

Distribution and availability: Infovox iVox is currently available worldwide via AssistiveWare, a privileged partner, and the Acapela retail network.
Recommended retail price: 219 € excluding VAT for European languages (except Scandinavian languages).

Special introductory retail price: 165 € excluding VAT until 31 December.

Infovox iVox demonstrations will take place at the Acapela and AssistiveWare booths in the Education Solutions Centre. Please contact the Open2Europe press department in order to make an appointment.

Demonstration versions are also available on line at the following address:
http://www.assistiveware.com/infovox_ivox.php