Friday, October 24, 2008

iSpeech CEO Featured in Rutgers University Article



Rutgers Focus ran a nice article on iSpeech CEO Heath Ahrens this week: iSpeech Rutgers Article. In this article Ahrens explains how he conceived the idea for iSpeech and how he got started. Here is an excerpt from the article:

"I was sitting in traffic on Route 78, wasting time with a ton of reading still to do, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I could listen to reading assignments while I was driving?' Ahrens began to search for software that would convert text to audio. He was familiar with these types of programs because he had worked on computers that automatically answer telephone calls using text. “The software I found was time consuming and difficult to use,” said Ahrens. “I thought there must be a way to make this easy for students.”

Check out the article and let us know what you think!