I wonder if some of the price drop is being driven by competition from
Apple's new voice in Leopard. From what I've heard the quality is really
good.
CB
David Niemeijer wrote:
I thought I would share this with you guys. It has taken quite a bit
of lobbying and a long time, but I am happy to announce that today the
prices for the Infovox iVox voices were permanently lowered.
Originally introduced as a solution for the low volume accessibility
market, it was found that also many educators and consumers wanted to
use these naturally sounding voices to listen to documents, create
personal podcasts and to help struggling readers. With the new prices
the voices are now within reach of educators, students, people with
disabilities as well as any other Mac user who likes to hear his
Macintosh speak. That includes you guys :-)
All voices except the Scandinavian ones are now 99 USD/Euro for the
first language, with each language typically including multiple voices
plus the US Heather bonus voice, and 49.50 USD/euro for any additional
languages. Scandinavian voices were also lowered in price. For more
info see our press release: http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR151007
Now some of you who bought the Infovox iVox voices in the past for a
higher price may be annoyed about the price drop, but please keep in
mind that if you would not have bought the voices I would never have
been able to show enough volume to Acapela Group to convince them to
offer the voices at lower prices. Many people can now benefit from the
lower prices and with Leopard's upcoming multilingual support for
VoiceOver the better priced Infovox iVox voices will help expand the
VoiceOver user community. Also keep in mind that you would not have
been enjoying the voices if you had not bought them already.
Finally, last week a new version of VisioVoice was released with
greater VoiceOver compatibility and many other changes. Read more
about it here: http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR101007
Cheers,
david.
