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Press
 We present some of the numerous articles and information from the Polish press that ilustrate IVO Software achievements.
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"Talking websites of IDG.pl" |
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28 March, 2006 |
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 ( "Gadajace strony w IDG.pl" Gazeta Prawna )
The article is dedicated to the implementation of TTS on IDG.pl website. This solution together with the TTS introduced by IVO Software shows numerous advantages like quich and comfortable access to the written news, articles and other content for example.
"The potential market for TTS products is growing rapidly. Nowadays, thanks to the improvement of the quality of TTS and it's better and more human-sounding nature, we can observe the speech generated by computers being used in more an more new areas.[...]"
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"Talking IDG.pl websites" |
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28 March, 2006 |
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 ( "Gadajace strony w IDG.pl" gazeta.pl )
The article informs about application of the IVONA TTS - Website version to the implementation of "cyber-speaker" module that reads the content of IDG.pl web portal. The module is called Audiobot.
"The TTS that can be used now on IDG.pl website is a totally innovative product created by Polish programmers from IVO Software. You only need to point out which text should be read and in a few seconds the Audiobot will talk to you through your PC speakers."
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"IVONA's got the voice" |
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14 February, 2006 |
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 ( "Glos ma IVONA" Puls Biznesu )
The article is a summary of an interview with director of IVO Software - Lukasz Osowski. The author presents sphere of activity, history and achievements of IVO Software. She concentrates mostly on the future plans of development of the newest technologically-advanced product, which is the IVONA TTS.
"We plan to still improve IVONA and develop its specialized versions together with new languages. We want also to design products based on human-like voice for home users - Lukasz Osowski and Michal Kuszczuk say."
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"Route to perfection" |
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30 January, 2006 |
 ( "Dazenie do doskonalosci" Computerworld )The article describes the achievements of the company on the field of TTS. It puts an emphasis on the great quality of the voice presented by their IVONA TTS and its ability to compete with foreign companies and their products for a share of the market.
"Now, IVO Software concentrates on the specialized versions of IVONA: SDK (Software Development Kit) - for hardware and software developers that want to build this technology into their own products. Server - to use in telecommunications and to transfer text into speech automatically and Website - dedicated to web servers and upgrading them with the possibility of changing text messages or different fragments of any website to the human voice automatically. Currently, the version dedicated to home users is being developed in order to bring the technology of text-to-speech into our home computers. Maybe, bacause of this, the TTS would become an interface between people and computers."
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"IVO Software from Gdynia won the competition..." |
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14 November, 2005 |
( "Firma IVO Software z Gdyni wygrala konkurs..." Gazeta Wyborcza )
Michal Kaszczuk and Lukasz Osowski, the founders of IVO Software have been announced the winners of the first Polish edition of the Microentrepreneurship of the year 2005 competition which has been organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Leopold Kronenberg Foundation (the Citigroup Foundation).
"The Award Ceremony were placed in the Ministry of Economic Affairs & Labor. IVO Software specialises in text-to-speech solutions which is used in telecommunications and which has become a great tool for the people with sight problems. The jury particularly prized the company's latest solution, which is the IVONA TTS announced by the experts as one of the best Polish text-to-speech systems in the international market."
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"The Microentrepreneurs of the Year 2005" come from Gdynia |
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08 November, 2005 |
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( "Mikroprzedsiebiorcy Roku 2005" pochodza z Gdyni, Puls Biznesu )
The article comments the results of the first edition of Polish competition "The Microentrepreneuership of the Year 2005". The prize-winners -IVO Software, has been nominated by the Pomeranian Technology Centre. Out of 92 entrants Łukasz Osowski and Michał Kaszczuk from IVO Software became ?The Microentrepreneurs of the Year 2005?. The competition has been organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Leopold Kronenberg Foundation (the Citigroup Foundation).
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This is the end of the fourth edition
of the "Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006" contest. Lukasz Osowski
i Michal Kaszczuk from Ivo Software won the award in "New
Business" category. Additionally the organizer of the event -
international corporation Ernst&Young - 
After "Gdynia without barriers" and "The Microentrepreneurs of the Year 2005" awards it's now time for an unprecedented success in the history of polish informatics. The organizer of the prestigious Blizzard Challenge Contest Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh rewarded Ivo Software products for being (simply) THE BEST text-to-speech software in the world. The product which can be used for listening of e-mails, books and news read as if it was made by a human lector, was esteemed by the international team of 135 experts. The young company from Gdynia defeated 13 best worldwide research groups from USA ( even from such corporations as Microsoft and IBM!) Japan, Germany, Israel, China and Great Britain. 
