How to use or buy Ivona voices?

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,

On 26/11/2018 09:01, Alex ARNAUD wrote:> Le 26/11/2018 ? 05:17, Bohdan R. Rau a 
?crit :
>> No matter fails or not.
>> Ivona module was designed for ivona-cli, which was never released
>> except demo version of Polish voice Jacek.
> 
> So, is there any user of Ivona on Linux? If I understand what Didier
> says, it seems it's impossible to use the Speech Dispatcher module of
> Ivona. So maybe we could drop if no usable.
> 
> I don't find on the site given by Didier a Linux version, see this 
> page https://harposoftware.com/en/french/157-celine-french-voice.html
> it's indicated "windows".

Here are my findings so far:

on Jan 24, 2013, 11:19am in:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2013/01/24/amazon-buys-ivona-software/

> Amazon.com this morning said it has acquired IVONA Software, a Gdynia,
> Poland-based provider of text-to-speech technology.
>
> The company said IVONA powers the text-to-speech, voice guide and
> explore by touch features on the Kindle Fire tablets; the company also
> provides text to speed products and services for "thousands of
> developers, businesses and customers around the world.)

So Ivona is now, as it presents itself, an Amazon company (one more
asset for Jeff <smile>): https://www.ivona.com/

You can try all the voices it sells on this page:
https://www.ivona.com/us/about-us/voice-portfolio/

You can get their voices for accessibility from one of the re-sellers I
mentioned in a an earlier message as stated here:
https://www.ivona.com/us/for-individuals/voices-for-accessibility/

Among the three listed re-sellers, only ReadSpeaker provides something
that could be of interest for a11y on Linux:
http://www.ttsforaccessibility.com/about-readspeaker/
Their solutions for a11y are proposed on this page:
http://www.ttsforaccessibility.com/solutions-2/
which can be spoken with ReadSpeaker clicking on Listen,
which loads this mp3:
http://ivotts-eu.readspeaker.com/cgi-bin/nph-ivona/925f30e7d133c39d6ef31e881b502cb3.mp3
They proposes two products:
A SDK, specs at the bottom of this page:
http://4cwsuq3or162bqn011ym22w1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IVONA-SDK-Technical-Specification-Sheet.pdf
A speech server, specs on this page:
http://4cwsuq3or162bqn011ym22w1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Speech-Server-IVONA-Technical-Specification-Sheet.pdf

In both spec sheets they claim compatibility with Linux.

I will contact them to know more, unless some speech-dispatcher
developer wants to do it.

Best,

Didier