Amazon has announced that the Ivona Software takes over, a company focused on making text-to-speech software. The onlinewarenhuis already made use of the services of Ivona Software, which makes the acquisition not comes as a surprise.
According to Amazon’s Ivona Software, the company that already has several features on the Kindle products. This is the functionality that text from books sales to speech, but also the spraakfeature that gives instructions to the blind, to help to the Kindle to operate. With the acquisition were no amounts or other terms and conditions published.
It is still unclear what Amazon exactly with Ivona Software. From the press release is that Amazon are new acquisition independently operate. This is Ivona Software is likely to be more focused on developing features for the devices from Amazon. It is unclear whether the remaining customers of Ivona Software, their support will remain.
Possible Amazon the text-to-speech software also is labeled for a yet to be released smartphone. There are already long-time rumours that the onlinewarenhuis their own smartphone on the market. Popular mobile operating systems like iOS and Android have already spraaksoftware.