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Wizzard Software Showcasing Exciting New Product Offerings and Live Demonstrations at SpeechTEK 2006.


PITTSBURGH -- Wizzard Software (OTCBB OTCBB

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:WIZD) is exhibiting this week at SpeechTEK 2006 in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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 at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. SpeechTEK is the speech industry's premier event, offering the latest in speech technologies, products and services. Other major exhibitors include Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and AT&T.

Wizzard has recently made a number of important announcements that significantly enhance and expand their speech recognition and text-to-speech product offerings. Attendees are invited to visit booth 417 to talk with Wizzard representatives and experience live demonstrations of some of these world class speech technologies.

WizzScribe Speaker Independent (SI) for Linux is the one of the latest exciting additions to Wizzard's IBM powered speech recognition offerings. This "no training required" technology converts speech from a wide variety of input devices into text in an offline batch mode, and is perfect for "industrial strength" server-based applications where large volumes of audio need to be converted into text for searching, data-mining, storage, analysis and information archiving. This technology is available now and is well positioned to bring large vocabulary voice recognition technology to a whole new generation of business applications.

Wizzard's line of IBM speech recognition offerings has been further expanded to include IBM WebSphere Everyplace eve·ry·place  
adv. Informal
Everywhere.

Usage Note: The forms everyplace (or every place), anyplace (or any place), someplace (or some place), and no place
 Multimodal Two or more modes of operation. The term is used to refer to a myriad of functions and conditions in which two or more different methods, processes or forms of delivery are used. On the Web, it refers to asking for something one way and receiving the answer another; for example requesting  Environment Version 4.3. This state-of-the art technology is built on the award-winning IBM Embedded ViaVoice speech recognition and speech synthesis speech synthesis

Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of
 technology, and provides an intuitive, inexpensive and time-effective way to create multimodal applications for smart phones, PDAs, automotive navigation systems An automotive navigation system is a satellite navigation system designed for use in automobiles. It typically uses GPS to acquire position data to locate the user on a road in the unit's map database. , set-top boxes, hands-free phones, tablets, notebooks and desktop computers.

Wizzard's AT&T Natural Voices server offerings are being enhanced by the addition of MRCP MRCP Member of Royal College of Physicians.

MRCP
abbr.
Member of the Royal College of Physicians
 Version 2 support. MRCP Version 2 support will position Natural Voices as an excellent choice for standards-oriented developers who wish to deploy multiple speech technologies in new IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time.  systems, or wish to cost-effectively upgrade current IVR systems to sound more natural. Regarded as the most natural-sounding speech engine on the market today, AT&T Natural Voices is available from Wizzard Software in both desktop and server versions, with highly competitive port and wav file The native digital audio format in Windows. Using the .WAV file extension, 8- or 16-bit samples can be taken at rates of 11,025 Hz, 22,050 Hz and 44,100 Hz. The highest quality (16-bit at 44,100 Hz) is the sampling rate of an audio CD and uses 88KB of storage per second.  pricing. MRCP is currently in beta and will be available soon. Wizzard invites attendees to visit the Wizzard booth for more information and to watch the Wizzard website for upcoming details on availability. There will also be a live demonstration of AT&T Natural Voices in the Wizzard booth.

"SpeechTEK is a fantastic opportunity for us to introduce our latest products to the speech technologies community," said Danielle Lewis, Marketing Director for Wizzard Software. "Our business is based on bringing the finest speech technologies from industry leading companies to market at the most compelling prices. We are so appreciative of the outstanding customer response to our expanded product lines and prices, and really look forward to actual face time at the show to talk with industry experts and our customers."

About Wizzard Software:

Founded in 1996, Wizzard Software has become a leader in the speech technology application development market. Wizzard architects solutions to business problems using its expertise in consulting, speech development tools and building speech based applications for the Desktop and Internet. Wizzard has achieved global recognition because of its expertise with voice communication whether it is via computer or telephone. Wizzard's successes have lead to expanding speech technology opportunities in both the government and commercial sectors including several healthcare industry products and services. For more information, visit www.wizzardsoftware.com.

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