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Best references for Voice Reader Web
Every website benefits from Voice Reader Web. The dubbing gives your website an additional dimension! This means more attractiveness, but also more sustainability as the information is heard directly by the listener. See and hear for yourself how flexibly Voice Reader Web can be used!
If you scroll down, you will find detailed references to the successful use of the reader on various websites.
Radio
Traffic News on Bavarian Radio (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
For their pure traffic channel, Bavarian Radio BR looked for a speech synthesis system that would meet the highest technological standards and the quality demands of radio broadcasters in terms of understandability and naturalness. It was decided to go for Voice Reader Server from Linguatec, which BR hosts as their own server solution (Voice Reader Server). Here you can listen to an excerpt from the traffic reports. (Language: German)
Top Society & Welfare
Welthungerhilfe
Welthungerhilfe provides help from one set of hands: from immediate emergency aid in the wake of a disaster to long-term projects carried out in cooperation with local partners. The non-profit and independent relief organization is run on a voluntary basis by Ingeborg Schäuble under the patronage of the Federal President. As a loudspeaker for the issues of Welthungerhilfe (overcoming hunger and poverty for the long term, environmental and resource protection, etc.), the dubbed websites fulfill a practical function. www.welthungerhilfe.de (Language: English, German)
Misereor
MISEREOR, the aid agency of the Catholic Church, helps the poorest of the poor irrespective of race, sex, nation or religion. The aim of their development efforts is to improve the living conditions of people for the long term. The dubbing of the website is an effective and responsible communications channel with which to direct this social message to all good-willed people. www.misereor.de (Language: German)
Institute for Social Services, Vorarlberg
„The Institute for Social Services is a facility established by the welfare service and offers people assistance in emotional or social emergency situations. We provide assistance when we see evidence of discrimination and we work to improve life opportunities and integration. We point the way to the socio-political future and sharpen the detection of social injustices. With our website, we are addressing individuals and institutions in a social environment, motivating them towards cooperation and actively helping to shape the structure of social networking. By dubbing our websites, we can lend a stronger voice to our social responsibilities.“ www.ifs.at (Language: German)
Reflection on the Sunday Gospel from the Freiburg Diocese
With 2.08 million Catholics, the Freiburg diocese is the second largest of 27 in total in Germany. The website of the diocese contains a whole range of carefully compiled information on different topics. Visitors to the site will also find the most recent reflection on the Sunday Gospel. In addition to simply reading the reflection, you now have the possibility of having it read aloud to you in a pleasant male voice thanks to the Voice Reader Web. Enjoy it at your own leisure: Those who wish to receive the text in more calm surroundings, may download the audio file onto their mp3 player and listen to it at the right moment and in the right spirit.
www.erzbistum-freiburg.de/Meditation-Sonntagsevangelium.65.0.html (Language: German)
Winterhuder Werkstätten Hamburg
Through providing vocational education and training programs, Winterhuder Werkstätten (Winterhude Workshops) offer handicapped people the chance to develop, sustain and improve their performance abilities in a customized work and education process. „We have provided various aids to help you use our website, e.g. the manual adjustment function for font sizes, availability of screen readers and Braille support. Moreover, we now also use your «Voice Reader Web». This service is simply the best and is yet another feature that helps make our website barrier-free. For us, as a recognized workshop for individuals that cannot read or have great difficulty with reading, this is an excellent service.” (Kai Storm, outreach work) www.ww-hamburg.de (Language: German)
Top Cities & Councils
South Bohemia / Jihoèeský kraj
The aspiring region of South Bohemia in the border area between the Czech Republic and Germany considers itself to be a region, „founded on the natural and cultural heritage site of previous generations, a region which respects its integration into the European Union and one that has reached the same level as that of the developed regions of the European Union's member states.&ldquo The official sites of the region www.kraj-jihocesky.cz are available in 8 European languages, from German to Russian and through to Spanish, and all are dubbed with Voice Reader Web. In this way, the young EU member state is presenting itself as a self-assured member of the European Union and, articulated through Voice Reader, is sending a clear signal to Europe.
Heidelberg
“Attentive visitors to the Heidelberg city website are now discovering a new symbol on a large number of the German pages. A click on the small megaphone on the top right gives users access to the new read-out service from www.heidelberg.de. This makes the new service a real alternative to reading - and not only for people with visual impairments.” (Language: German)
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is one of the 20 most important cities in Germany and the economic and cultural centre of Eastern Westphalia. The city at Teutoburg Forest was the hometown of various well-known personalities, including Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Niklas Luhmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Hera Lind to name just a few. Also famous is the brand of Dr. Oetker. The website provides an extensive overview of information and facts on the city and its history, on tourism, the rich cultural and leisure facilities there, its science and economy and much more to townspeople and visitors alike. Carefully designed to be barrier-free, the site now offers its information through the special read-out function of Voice Reader Web. www.bielefeld.de (Language: German, English)
Landshut
As a special service, the city of Landshut offers its citizens an „intercultural information board” in eleven languages, supplying useful facts and tips for many situations. „"It is natural to receive in our town, with open arms, everybody who wants to come to us", explains the Mayor, Hans Rampf. It is especially pleasing that Voice Reader Web can support the website with a total of eight languages; such as English, French etc., but Polish and Russian too. www.landshut.de
Ettlingen
The quaint yet modern city of Ettlingen has a lot to offer. Whether you have to take care of something at city hall and are looking for the right contact person, you’re trying to get more information on different cultural and leisure activities or wanting to take a tour of the city, or you need more information on Ettlingen as a location for business and industry or have other questions, Ettlingen is a city that speaks to everyone’s needs...literally! With Voice Reader Web, visitors to the Ettlingen website can now “hear” the information they need! www.ettlingen.de (Language: German, English, French, Italian, Russian)
Flöha
The large district town of Flöha has a very attractive homepage with a lot of information for citizens and visitors alike: www.floeha.de. It offers a colorful programme on everything going on in Flöha. The read-out service Voice Reader Web means that the site is in touch with the people themselves and it also adds to the appealing presentation of the town. (Language: German)
Top Leisure & Tourism
Oktoberfest
The Oktoberfest in Munich (or, as regulars call it, the „Wies'n“) is legendary and enjoys a worldwide reputation as a unique event in cultural understanding. Everyone should have visited the Oktoberfest at least once in their lifetime! As a Munich-based company, we at Linguatec are particularly proud of the fact that the official Wies'n website is now also dubbed with our Voice Reader Web. And when the call „O'zapft is!“ is sounded at the first tapping of the barrel, our Voice Reader Web – a true child of Munich – proves that it can even speak Bavarian. Cheers! www.oktoberfest.de (Language: German, English)
PR-Agentur Hapke Media
So that the potential of Web blogs for PR and marketing could be seen and experienced, Ramona Hapke integrated the service into the pages of her travel blogs www.mallorcatours.net and www.bayerwald-blog.de. As a PR agency, Hapke Media must lead with a good example and goes into how the Internet has changed classic press and PR work. (Language: German)
“Tourismus Dialog Berlin” media forum
The media forum “Tourismus Dialog Berlin” is an independent, across-the-board communications platform. Journalists from the press, radio, TV and agencies meet with ministers, members of parliament, ambassadors, presidents, CEOs, managers and directors, and experts from the tourism, hotel and gastronomy sectors, industry, science and politics. The audio function effectively supports the forum's public relations. www.tourismus-dialog-berlin.de (Language: German)
Top Newspapers & Online Magazines
Die Presse.com
The online issue of the nationwide Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse presents an innovative dubbing service for its readers through its &bdquo Seite vorlesen “ (read out page) function. The contents of DiePresse.com are now also available in audio text format. The „Voice Reader“ function reads out any article you’re interested in. And the service couldn’t be easier to use: simply click on the loudspeaker symbol beside the article image or the „Seite vorlesen“ (read out page) button. www.diepresse.com (Language: German)
mz-web, Gateway to Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung is the largest regional newspaper in Southern Saxony-Anhalt. This high-circulation daily newspaper soon realized the importance of Internet and made the full version of its printed edition available on line as early as in 1994. The audio function Voice Reader Web is a very useful enhancement for websites: “Flickering screens, wrong graphic card settings and far from optimised layouts sometimes make reading and comprehension unnecessarily difficult. The consequences are tired eyes and piles of paper – because, in most cases, the digital documents are then printed anyway. As one of the first in Germany, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung has equipped its website with the software “Voice Reader Web”, with which all articles can be conveniently listened to.” (Full press report: “Die Ohren lesen mit”, 29.07.2008) www.mz-web.de (Language: German)
Industriemagazin
„The Austrian magazine Industriemagazin is the service magazine for executives and policy makers in Austria. Each month, we deal with current management trends, relevant innovations in tax law and developments in economic policy that are important to entrepreneurs. As a service to our readers, we know how to provide them with information on technical topics from the fields of IT / telecommunications, automation and environmental technology, and logistics, in such a way that they don’t have to be a highly specialized expert to understand it. The text-to-speech functionality of Voice Reader Web helps us to do this.” www.industriemagazin.at (Language: German)
Visavis.de
www.visavis.de is the online portal of VISAVIS-Verlagsgesellschaft and has online versions of the hardcopy magazines VISAVIS Economy, Finanzmagazin.info and Web-Business. News is alive because it is constantly kept up-to-date. This is where Voice Reader Web really shows its strength. Because there is no need to create, manually link or update any audio files, you can enjoy the advantages of having your text read aloud without having to worry about bothersome administrative tasks. (Language: German)
Europe for Students (EforS)
Europe for Students is the first European student portal of its kind. The website reports cross-nationally in four languages about the most important news for students, introduces European university cities and provides all the basic information on studying in Europe in a study guide. Voice Reader Web is available in 15 languages in total and is thus an ideal solution for the dubbing of the multilingual student portal. www.efors.eu (Languages: English, German, French, Italian)
Top Culture & Art
Kulturkalender – the cultural magazine for Baden-Württemberg
The quarterly magazine “Kulturkalender” offers a discerning program of literature, art, theater, dancing and Festivals in Baden-Württemberg and beyond. What is the slogan of Baden-Württemberg – „We can do anything, apart from speaking High German”? With the Kulturkalender, even this would be proved wrong. www.kulturkalender-online.de (Language: German)
Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft Regensburg e.V.
The aim of Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft (German-Japanese society) in Regensburg is to bring the people of Germany and Japan together and help to enhance mutual understanding as well as deepen awareness about the people and culture of both nations through lectures, films, social and cultural events and its regular get-together. As a service for website visitors, it now also offers the content of its website in dubbed format by a pleasant female voice. www.djg-regensburg.de (Language: German)
Autorenweb.de / Your literature on the Internet
The portal www.autorenweb.de offers a wide collection of literary works and extracts in 29 literature categories, from short stories to thrillers and through to SMS texts. Prospective authors can publish their works free of charge here in an attractive and varied environment. The read-out function opens up the dimension of audio books. (Language: German)
Biography work
Elisabeth Heller invites everyone to visit her website www.rund-um-die-biografie to research your own biography or people you know. The added value as a result of the speech output is astonishing: the insightful texts are excellently dubbed, the direct link to the reader is immediately established. (Language: German)
Top Finance & Insurance
Baufi24
www.baufi24.de is one of the most well-known web portals for construction financing projects. The construction financing expert compares offers from more than 50 banks for building owners, including the advice and miscellaneous services on offer. The read-out function reads out the content in a smooth and pleasant voice. (Language: German)
VHV Versicherungen
The Internet site www.vhv-vertriebsinfo.de is the information center of VHV Versicherungen. The individual information pages are read out in an expressive female voice.
“We wanted to do more than just go online. VHV Vertriebsinfo has to be more and offer numerable benefits to your daily life! Our new, fast and efficient info system can be read, listened to and printed out: all information is available to download as MP3s, in HTML or PDF format, and can be printed.” (Language: German)
Tax and Legal Blog
The Blog www.steuerratgeber-online.de offers extensive information on all legal and financial matters: Tips and tricks for tax returns, information on car, household, and accident protection insurance, and insurance for many other subjects, an on-line loan comparison and an adviser on current administration of justice issues make the Blog a valuable source of information. With the read-out function, individual articles are presented to the visitors of the Blog in a very simple form and with lasting effect. (Language: German)
Unfallkasse Nord
Unfallkasse Nord is the statutory accident insurance for the public sector in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. In total, approx. 1.4 million people in the North are insured by this company. The barrier-free issue is an important topic, as the Internet site of Unfallkasse Nord is basically designed so that it complies with the guidelines of the directive to provide barrier-free information in accordance with the equality law for people with disabilities. In this way, the font size, contrast and the colours of the display can be adjusted in the browser according to the viewing habits of visitors to the sites. The dubbing of the sites with Voice Reader Web is a practical addition to these efforts to create a user-friendly and easily accessible website. www.uk-nord.de (Language: German)
Top Legal & Citizens Advice
Swiss Crime Prevention
Swiss Crime Prevention (SKP PSC) develops prevention campaigns in different areas of life. The website www.skp-psc.ch makes a decisive contribution to their intelligence work and is available in four languages: German, English, French and Italian. Thanks to the read-out function, important information can be optimally processed for consumers and graphically transmitted. (Languages: English, German, French, Italian)
Top Education & Health
Hearing foundation
“After only a few days, we have already received very positive feedback on this Linguatec service. An enthusiastic response: top teacher unionist from Salzburg - Siegfried Girzinger - is extremely dedicated to the hearing movement. An avid reader himself, he finds hope in this technical solution for the visually impaired.” www.zuhoeren.at (Language: German)
REHADAT –Information system for professional rehabilitation
REHADAT collects and publishes information on the topics of disability, integration and career. All information is available free of charge on the Internet under www.rehadat.de or on CD-ROM. More than 83,000 texts and 20,000 images are available. The user-friendly read-out function of Voice Reader Web helps to make the website barrier-free. The individual articles in the database are read out. www.rehadat.de (Language: German)
Top Blogs
Ratschlag 24
www.ratschlag24.com is the Internet site of the computer specialist Jörg Schieb at WDR. A highly entertaining site! You will find the read-out function directly integrated into every feature page. (Language: German)
Ask Mommy – THE ultimate reference tool (that’s not just) for bachelors...
The idea for askmommy.org came from of a funny, though not so uncommon situation. Two men living on their own wanted to make boiled potatoes but suddenly realized that they didn’t know how. What do they do? They “ask mom”! Today www.askmommy.org is one of the most popular forums, providing practical household tips for all of life’s situations. Now, you can also listen to the website and download it as an MP3! Any more questions? (Language: German, English)
Blog: „Brian entdeckt die Welt (Brian discovers the world)“
Blogs are all the rage. With Voice Reader Web, bloggers can directly address their readers and acquire a podcast character thanks to the download function for the MP3 files. Can be seen for example in Matthias Mahrhofer’s relaxed and informal blog “Brian entdeckt die Welt” under http://matthias.mahrhofer.in/blog. (Language: German)
Top Online Dictionaries
LEO Online Dictionary
The internationally renowned and widely used online dictionary LEO (with an Alexa rank of an impressive 278!) recently augmented its extensive dictionary services with an interactive language coach. To provide the dubbing of various text types, LEO opted for Voice Reader Web. Language learners can listen to reading exercises, translations and dictated texts in the language of the respective text. The pronunciation function is available for all languages offered by LEO. www.leo.org
We congratulate LEO on the choice of the groundbreaking service and hope that all users will enjoy learning languages with LEO!
Online dictionary e-Slovníky
The site www.eslovniky.cz is a frequently visited Czech dictionary portal for many languages - from German to English and through to Italian and Spanish. The entries are dubbed with Voice Reader Web in accordance with the Linguadict model. (Language: English, German, Czech)
Top Science & Research
SPEECH EXPERTS – Gesellschaft für innovative Sprachtechnologie mbH
The company SPEECH EXPERTS develops intelligent latest-generation dialog systems, which enable the natural use of automatic services through language. As a specialist for intuitive and natural language applications, SPEECH EXPERTS GmbH is delighted to offer on its website the read-out function of Voice Reader Web as a symbol of its innovative language technology expertise. www.speech-experts.de (Language: German)
Top Marketing & Services
Translation agency LinguaPoint GmbH
„The main focus of our work is personal, project-specific support, best-possible implementation of customer requirements, dependable quality and timely delivery. As our customers mainly come from the IT sector, our translations allow us to be up with the latest technologies and trends. We are thus delighted to offer this innovative read-out service on our website.“ www.linguapoint.de (Language: German)
mh sponsoring
Marion Hiermaier offers excellent contacts to unconventional marketing actions on her website www.mh-sponsoring.de, from reader surveys to raffles with attractive prizes. „In this area, it is crucial to be on the pulse of the current times and identify trends at an early stage. I opted for Voice Reader Web from Linguatec, as the voice sounds completely natural, does not put you to sleep and lends the site that special touch.“ (Language: German)
Top PR & Press Services
Editorial office for image and text
Frank-Michael Preuss works as a journalist and specialist for public relations. For this reason, Voice Reader Web is a highly desirable solution for his own website. www.fmpreuss.de (Language: German)
PresseTV.de
The press portal www.presseTV.de is a service provided by the f&gd editorial office. The use of audio components tops off the wide range of services. (Language: German)
PR von Harsdorf
„Located in central Munich, we help companies in the technology, media and services sectors with their PR activities. Our long-standing experience from the PR sector – both as editorial office and agency – makes us a reliable partner for our customers and for journalists. By placing great importance on comprehensive advice and cooperation built on confidence and continuity, we position your company and your products right where they belong, on the market and in the target media. To us, keeping abreast with current trends and new developments is a matter of course, which is why we are delighted to get in on the ground floor with audio rendering of websites.“ Elke von Harsdorf, Managing Director. www.pr-vonharsdorf.de
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