Intelligent Speaker New Year Functionality.

 Posted on January 14, 2019
The new year is the time for new resolutions and new goals, so let’s promise to ourselves that in 2019 we will stay productive, find our own balance, will do what we like and will let smart technology assist us in achieving our most ambitious goals. Every year our team releases new functions and improves Intelligent Speaker by implementing the features requested by our users. In 2019 we moved Intelligent Speaker to the new tts level, enabling new settings, more customization options and requested usability. [Read More]

Release Notes 2018.8.20.1152

 Posted on August 20, 2018

Whats new

  • New functionality and improved UX
  • Voice choice and customization options added
  • General improvements in speed and performance

Improvements:

  • Improved settings: language, voice and breathing choice
  • Voice choice for your flawless listening experience
  • Optional breathing, to maximally humanize Intelligent Speaker
  • Improved languages and intonations
  • Improved usability
  • Improved loading speed and performance velocity

Fixes

  • Fixed bug with player load and user authentication

Release Notes 2018.6.26.1634

 Posted on June 26, 2018

What’s new

  • Improved velocity and language performance
  • General improvement of languages and intonations

Improvements:

  • Improved text and language detection
  • Improved language performance on various locales

Fixes

  • Fixed bug with incorrect text detection of unsupported locales

  • Fixed authentication bug. Rarely users could face a bug during authentication process. This was connected with the error on server replace function. Now this bug is fixed.

Release Notes 2018.6.25.1601

 Posted on June 25, 2018

What’s new

Improved languages’ response and general performance

Improvements:

  • Improved languages and intonations.
  • Improved listening experience for various languages and systems with different language configurations.

Fixes

  • Fixed bug with incorrect interpretation of different languages names.
  • Now Intelligent Speaker automatically configures the language of the browser and system, regardless the letter code or naming.

Release Notes 2018.6.21.1915

 Posted on June 21, 2018

Whats new

General improvements in functionality and performance

Improvements:

  • Improved languages and intonations.
  • Improved listening experience for Portuguese language.

Fixes

  • Fixed bug with Portuguese language.
  • Now users from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Gunea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome E Principe will not face any problems with listening to the content in Portuguese language.

Best text-to-speech browser extensions. TTS comparison.

 Posted on June 15, 2018
TTS or Text-to-speech software is getting more and more popular today. Presented in different formats: a browser extension, programs, add-ons and instant transforming websites, tts is technology which aims to help in being productive, increase accessibility and change lifestyle to for a better. It’s not a mystery that some text-to-speech softwares are better than others, mainly because of the tts engines they run on. Everything depends on voice quality and the realism of sounding. [Read More]

Release Notes 2018.6.7.1214

 Posted on June 11, 2018

Whats new

Speed range extended for better accessibility.

Improvements:

  • Improved error and bug report which let the development team react to error reports fast and fix bugs effectively.
  • New speed range lets information over the internet become more accessible to people who experience difficulties with seeing and reading web content.

Fixes

  • Fixed text detection for www.habr.com
  • Fixed bug with looped animation when unauthorized user adds a link to the feed

Guide to productivity. Part 2. How to accomplish more by doing less

 Posted on May 3, 2018
Procrastination is the ultimate time killer. No matter how hard we try to avoid it, we still meet the obstacle we can’t overcome. If you can’t help but keep on being seduced by the opportunity of watching a new video with cute kittens ( what we here, at Intelligent Speaker, are crazy about), then this post will help you to accelerate your productivity resources. We gathered best hacks to bring you better productivity experience! [Read More]

Guide to productivity. Part 1. How to sleep better and achieve more

 Posted on April 12, 2018
How many times you woke up at 5,6,7 even 8 am on Monday and felt so broke and bad that even a shot of double espresso from nearest Starbucks couldn’t improve your state of mind? I am saying “state of mind” because our mind is the only relevant thing in the entire process of human existence. People do not achieve their goals because of weak bodies. They do not outperform because they give up in their minds. [Read More]

New Era of Information: the Story of Intelligent Speaker

 Posted on April 9, 2018
How do you spend your routine time? This was the first question which almost one year Intelligent Speaker development team asked aloud for the first time. Back then we didn’t know we would create an efficient text-to-speech product. We did not know what we wanted to create and how it would look at the end. We only knew that we had all the opportunities to develop something that could change the way we accomplish our tasks and spend routine time. [Read More]