Finally, iSpeak to iPhone
From: Speech Technology - May/June 2008 - page 9
By: Ryan Joe

When the iPhone was first released in June of last year, many in the speech
industry took umbrage over the lack of a voice interface. But recent
developments have changed this perception. A significant number of speech
technology providers have, during the past few weeks, launched new
applications for the iPhone, quieting some of the outrage. 

One of those application providers is YouMail, which in mid-June released a
public beta of its visual voicemail for smartphones, especially the iPhone.
The new mobile platform allows users to listen to voicemail messages, forward
messages to other people in their iPhone address books, or reply via SMS
without ever having to dial into their voicemail service.  

A few weeks after the YouMail launch, hosted telephone application platform
provider ifbyphone released a group message broadcast application that
enables iPhone users to send recorded messages to as many recipients as they
want without using their calling-plan minutes. The ifbyphone application
works with any iPhone running the v2 software and also works with Apple’s
iPod Touch. 

IVO Software, a text-to-speech vendor, has released Expressivo TTS v1.3
specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Editorial/FYI/Finally,-iSpeak-to-iPhone-49887.aspx

Links:
YouMail
http://www.youmail.com/home/index.do

ifbyphone
http://public.ifbyphone.com/

IVO Software Expressivo TTS
http://www.ivosoftware.com/
http://say.expressivo.com/

Expressivo Text Reader for Screenreaders
http://www.ivosoftware.com/products/ivona_reha.html