The company is very big in Poland and Eastern Europe, but has global reach, which is important in obvious ways both for the thorny problem of text-to-speech in multiple languages, and for a global company like Amazon. Ivona is eleven years old, and was founded in Poland by engineers Łukasz Osowski and Michał Kaszczuk. Ivona already powers the "Text-to-Speech," "Voice Guide" and "Explore by Touch" accessibility features of Amazon's Kindle Fire, so bringing those in-house creates some obvious synergies there - but its primary business is Speech Cloud, a software-as-a-service infrastructure that companies use to automate call centers or add e-mail-to-speech functionality. On Thursday morning, Amazon announced its acquisition of Ivona Software, a text-to-speech company.
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