Amazon's New IVONA Purchase Could Produce Siri Competitor

[exfileme]

Amazon has acquired the company that provides text-to-speech technology on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch tablet.

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[abbadon_34]

Is that eye-VON-a like I-PHONE-a? Or eye-von-A, like (russian accent) I VANA Kills you!

 

[teh_chem]

Confused--this tech is text-to-speech. But SIRI and similar technologies are more-oriented around the opposite, speech-to-text recognition. Unless I missed something.

 

[Guest]

I'm probably biased, but iSpeech's voices sound way better than Ivona's.