The World’s First Solar Audio Device
Over 25 years ago, the founders of MegaVoice, Tom Treseder and Ken Crowell, pioneered the development of the first solar powered, digital audio book. Their vision was to work in partnership with hundreds of organizations and companies to engage billions of people who are unable to read for themselves.
After years of dedication and perseverance, the MegaVoice solar powered audio book became a reality – and a favorite among those who use audio devices to engage visually challenged people groups.
Today, MegaVoice produces an ever-expanding line of solar powered audio books – available for humanitarian use. A line of MegaVoice digital players allow companies and NGOs to choose a player that best suits the need.
Thanks to other audio suppliers, MegaVoice is also home to an expansive audio library with hundreds of audio books in many Indian languages and dialects. Audio book titles, with playback times ranging from a few minutes to 800 hours duration, can be loaded onto the growing line of digital audio players and devices.
MegaVoice has an audio resource team ready to place your audio production on as many MegaVoice as you need. Organizations and individuals can also load their own messages using a PC to drag and drop files onto the MegaVoice audio device.
Breaking the Silence
In 1986, a group of men in Australia began looking for a way to reach billions of people who were unable to read for themselves. Their dream was to find a way to play back entire books on a reliable audio device “with no moving parts” – one that would not be subject to incessant mechanical breakdowns.
The MP3 player would not be invented for another ten years, so the limits of known technology would have to be pushed to create the world’s first digital audio book. Undaunted, one of the founders sketched the initial drawing of the envisioned audio device.
In 1988, an American electronics engineer and his wife were busy building their electronics business from the ground up. They were already in the process of developing a fixed tuned radio.
Their objective was to record and play back a digital version of books and stories, in those days an incredible eighty hours of audio. Considering that the memory capacity of technology at the time was about 30 seconds, and the desire to also make it a solar powered unit, the team definitely had a mountain to move to make the world’s first audio book-device.
Overcoming daunting technological challenges, our development team finally brought the audio capacity of the prototype solar audio device up to 15 minutes, then extended it to 30, then 60 minutes and beyond. Today, the MegaVoice digital audio device is a reality.
MegaVoice now has audio distribution points called Media Centers located strategically worldwide. Through partners we have been operating in India informally for many years, but we officially registered as a private limited in May, 2018. We have adequate staff and office space in Delhi, we have made technical and electronics achievements by producing a fully assembled “Made in India” player.
