Amazon Bought a Text-to-Speech Company to Improve its
Tex............... ZZZzzzzZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzS   The thing that
Amazon bought is called IVONA Software. IVONA Software is ten
years old which means it's half way to its 20s and that's the
decade when you find out who you really are. IVONA Software does
lots of text-to-speech stuff, which is good because Amazon has
books and those books have lots of text Amazon would like to
turn into speech. (IVONA's actually already used in a bunch of
those features like Immersive Reading, but whatever.) And for
those of you think that text-to-speech is just for lazy people
who don't read good, it's not (but it is a little)! It's also so
Amazon can get money from blind people too and also help them
"read books".  In conclusion, please god let something else
happen today. [Amazon]