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Amazon Buys Text-to-speech Company

Posted at 7:36PM Thursday 24 Jan 2013

Amazon has acquired IVONA Software, a text-to-speech technology company whose products power the "Text-to-Speech," "Voice Guide" and "Explore by Touch" features on Kindle Fire tablets.

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