Appendix A
A1-Competitor Analysis
Amazon Kindle
Very convenient and user
friendly
Strengths Thousands of eBooks to choose
from
Also offers dictionary and
translation
It’s a whole device, separated
from your smartphone, making
Weaknesses
it less convenient
Almost double in size compared
to a regular phone (can be
considered a tablet
Instapaper
Instapaper is available on most
computers and devices
Save articles for offline reading
Create folders for easy filing and
organization of your articles.
Instapaper's Browse tab has a
limited number of recommended
articles.
Can only search for new articles
when connected to the internet
Voice Aloud Reader
Has plenty of voice editing
options (speed, pitch, rate,
language etc.)
Has the option to import emails
or other documents or even
scan your own.
Hard to use, ugly design and
not such a friendly user
interface
Only supported by IOS
Shows too many adds unless
you buy the premium version
Lessons for
“Speechax”
Existing apps/systems have one sole
purpose, so their text-to-speech technology
is constantly updated to the best version.
Also, they seem to implement/offer
translation in a variety of languages.
Existing text-to-speech apps/systems seem
not to have any feature for scanning
documents/pages implemented within
them already. Also, some of them require a
stable internet connection in order to
function