Breakthrough in Text to Speech Technology

GDYNIA, Poland, November 19 - The IVO Software company, in cooperation with Royal National
Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the largest British charity organization,
is introducing two English speaking voices, based on revolutionary IVONA
Text-to-Speech technology. They will be set up in products and services
provided by RNIB to more than two million visually impaired persons.

"The IVO Software has delivered amazing quality and innovation
in an area that we are particularly keen to support and the partnership
between our companies is set to deliver the best synthetic speech solutions
on the market. We are proud to have met the team at IVO Software who have
worked extremely hard and thoroughly - their focus is on quality and this
shows in every element of our partnership." - said Steve Tyler, Head of
Innovation, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), United Kingdom.

New British English IVONA voices are already available at
www.ivona.com with all IVONA products, which guarantees greater
comfort of computer use, reduces company operating costs and makes the
webpages more attractive and accessible, among other things.

The two new British English speaking IVONA Text-to-Speech
voices, Brian and Amy, stand out with excellent pronunciation, classic
accent, vocal timbre, intonation and style. The voices have already been used
for speech synthesis of passenger information system applied in public
transport stops in Wales. For the sound of the voices as well as for more
information on their development please visit
www.ivona.com/technology.

"It is a breakthrough in the area of speech synthesis which
brings to text-to-speech solutions a new, previously inaccessible, level of
quality known only from science fiction movies" - said Lukasz Osowski, CEO
and President of IVO Software.

For the first time in the production of new IVONA voices IVO
Software used own technology of Rapid Voice Development (RVD) which allows
creating the next generation synthesized voices in any language within
several weeks.

More information on IVO Software

IVO Software creates and develops IVONA text-to-speech system,
one of the best in the world. Our status is confirmed by numerous awards such
as the main prize at the prestigious international contest Blizzard Challenge
in 2006, 2007 and 2009, where the voice generated by IVONA text-to-speech was
voted closest to the natural human voice. IVO Software develops special IVONA
TTS versions that are used in business, everyday life and rehabilitation of
the blind and partially sighted. The price of IVONA text-to-speech is
affordable, which opens up opportunities for everyone to use the
text-to-speech technology.

For more information please contact: Michal Rybak, PR Manager, IVO
Software, www.ivona.com, e-mail: mrybak@ivona.com, mobile phone:
+48-693-212-122, phone/fax: +48-58-783-49-51

For more information please contact: Michal Rybak, PR Manager, IVO Software, www.ivona.com, e-mail: mrybak at ivona.com, mobile phone: +48-693-212-122, phone/fax: +48-58-783-49-51