SVOX und Code Factory announce partnership

Broad co-operation for the development of mobile speech solutions for the mobile professional and the visually impaired

SVOX AG, the Swiss specialist for synthetic speech technology and Code Factory, one of the leading providers of software solutions for the visually impaired and the mobile professional announced today that they have teamed up in order to co-develop and co-market complete speech solutions for the use in next generation mobile communication devices.

SVOX and Code Factory will unite their know how to develop two joint solutions: Mobile Accessibility and Mobile Professional. Both products are specially designed to meet the needs of the business users and to offer automobile drivers as well as the visually impaired greater mobile accessibility and communication flexibility. As both products have been developed to support the entire spectrum of operating systems such as Symbian OS, Smartphone and PocketPC they can run on a whole range of next generation mobile communication devices.

Mobile Accessibility: More than just talking on a mobile phone

Mobile Accessibility was specially designed for the mobile business user as well as for the visually impaired. Thanks to Code Factory´s technology and SVOX´s speech synthetizer Mobile Accessibility represents a full speech navigation solution. This enables both business and private users to organise their electronic calendars and address books as well as to send and receive e-mails, SMS and MMS messages via speech.

The naturally sounding speech of Mobile Accessibility reads all information and messages appearing on the display of the mobile phone, including error messages, incoming notes or menu dialogues.

Mobile Accessibility is full of keyboard shortcuts, which make the menu navigation even more easy to handle.

Mobile Professional: Communication any time everywhere

Mobile Professional is a text-to-speech solution which provides maximum mobility and flexibility to business users and automobile drivers. The idea behind this product is that the mobile phones can be used in order to check e-mails and gain access to personal information, while the text-to-speech software of SVOX reads all retrieved data. Additionally, all incoming e-mails can be received from Outlook directly on the mobile phone and converted into naturally sounding multi-lingual speech.

Mobile Professional will be presented for the first time at this year´s CeBIT at SVOX´s stand F33 in hall 9. Mobile Accessibility will also be demonstrated on Symbian-based and Windows-operated communication devices representing thus a further highlight of the trade show.

SVOX -- A Brief Company Profile
SVOX AG was founded in April 2000 as a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Its core product is text-to-speech software. The multiple award-winning SVOX technology is used in fields such as telecommunications, call centers, multimedia/Internet, automotive and mobile devices. SVOX differentiates itself by offering customized text-to-speech. With SVOXs software architecture customers are offered a text-to-speech engine adaptable to their technical and market needs. Alongside clients such as Swisscom and D-Link, SVOX also collaborates closely with partners such as VoiceGenie, Telisma, Siemens, Ericsson, Voice Robots and A.R.T.
SVOX is a Swiss based company, with representation in Germany, Austria and USA. Next to European markets, SVOX is also active in US and Asian markets.

Code Factory -- A brief company profile
Code Factory was founded in 1998 by the two brothers Eduard and Jordi Sánchez Palazón and is located in Barcelona/Spain. Apart from accessible products for blind people it offers different kinds of professional software solutions both for computers and mobile phones. Because of the experience the company was chosen by ONCE - one of the most important organizations for blind people in Europe - as partner for applications for blind people. Code Factory uses innovative technology to produce high quality products that meet exactly the needs of the client.