Amsterdam - 2 May 2007 - AssistiveWare today announced that together with the Acapela Group it introduces the "Give Your Mac a Voice Promotion" that will run until 31 October 2007 and will involve special pricing with discounts of 25 to 34%.

With the "Give Your Mac a Voice Promotion" AssistiveWare and Acapela Group would like to give more people a chance to enjoy the naturally sounding Infovox iVox voices on their Mac in their language(s) of choice.

Infovox iVox, a product from Acapela Group created in collaboration with AssistiveWare allows the naturally sounding, high quality voices of the Acapela Group to be used by any Speech Manager compliant application on Mac OS X, including applications such as TextEdit, Preview, Acrobat Reader, Proloquo, TextParrot and AppleWorks, as well as many educational titles. Infovox iVox, which is distributed worldwide by AssistiveWare, can also be used with Tiger's built-in VoiceOver screen reader, and Dutch and French users now have the possibility to hear all the VoiceOver menus and messages in their own language by using Infovox iVox together with AssistiveWare's VisioVoice.

Infovox iVox is a Universal Binary and can be used on PowerPC and Intel Macs. The products include all voices available for a language of choice. Available languages include: US English, UK English, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, American Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. All non-American English languages include one American English female voice as a bonus.

Suggested retail pricing during the promotion period excluding VAT:

Product/Languages US English
non-Scandinavian Scandinavian
Infovox iVox 99 US$/Euro (-34%) 149 US$/Euro (-32%) 269 US$/Euro (-25%)
Infovox iVox + TextParrot 109 US$/Euro (-31%) 159 US$/Euro (-31%) 279 US$/Euro (-25%)

TextParrot is a document and selection reader and audio file generator.

Additional languages are half the price of Infovox iVox for that language. Volume licenses are also available.

Infovox iVox requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. For more information, a fully-functional downloadable demo and to listen to samples of the voices please consult the product page:
http://www.assistiveware.com/infovox_ivox.php

This press release is also available at:
http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR020507

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David Niemeijer, CTO & co-CEO
AssistiveWare(R)
D.Niemeijer@assistiveware.com
http://www.assistiveware.com/

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