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AssistiveWare Releases GhostReader 1.6

Posted April 16, 2009 at 1:01pm by iClarified · 3645 views
ConvenienceWare and AssistiveWare today announced the release of GhostReader 1.6, which delivers new voices for Arabic, Greek, Russian, Italian, Turkish, British English, and Norwegian. It also provides Safari 4 compatibility and adds new large educational discounts. GhostReader is a powerful, yet easy to use multilingual text-to-speech solution for Mac OS X that reads aloud PDF, Word and other documents as well as selected text in any application. It can also convert any text to audio files, MP3s, or bookmarkable audiobooks for playback on iPhone and iPod. Sit back and relax while GhostReader reads for you!

GhostReader 1.6 includes the following enhances:
* New voice languages: Arabic, Greek, Russian
* New high quality voices for existing languages: Italian male voice, Turkish female voice, British female voice, Norwegian male voice
* Compatibility with Safari 4
* New localization: Italian (provided by our partner Active Software)

GhostReader can be used by anyone who prefers to listen to text rather then read it. Many professionals, writers, educators and students use it on a daily basis to save time, to proof read their own writing or to learn the pronunciation of foreign languages or to improve their reading and listening comprehension.

GhostReader 1.6 is a free update for existing users. It is a Universal Binary requiring Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Voices are currently available for the following languages: American English, British English, Czech, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, American Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Russian and Swedish. GhostReader itself is localized in English, French, Italian and German.

Pricing and Availability:
Pricing for GhostReader starts at 39.95 Euro/USD excluding VAT for a single-user monolingual version (includes all voices for a language of choice). Multilingual licenses, household licenses, classroom licenses and school licenses are also available. New with GhostReader 1.6 are the educational M license for up to 150 computers (999 Euro/USD excluding VAT) and the educational L license for up to 1000 computers (1849 Euro/USD excluding VAT) and the L licenses for 500 additional computers (500 Euro/USD excluding VAT ).


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