Wizzard Software Offering AT&T Natural Voices for Apple Mac OS X
PITTSBURGH - ATandT Natural Voices will soon be available for Apple Mac OS 10.3 in English, French, German and Spanish. Wizzard Software will be making this technology available to Apple application developers.
Named "Technology of the Year" by Frost and Sullivan, ATandT's Natural Voices product line offers "plug-and-play" language support instead of requiring different engines for each language.
Mac OS X allows application developers to incorporate text-to-speech into a variety of Mac applications. Application developers wishing to learn more about Wizzard's offering of ATandT Natural Voices for Mac OS 10.3 can send an email inquiry to sales@wizzardsoftware.com.
According to a statement released earlier this year, Apple Computer reported their 2005 first quarterly revenue and net income as the highest in the history of their company, with 74 percent revenue growth. Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh® units during this quarter, representing a 26 percent increase in CPU units over the year-ago quarter. According to US News and World Report, Macintosh owners buy 30 percent more software than their Windows counterparts. Further, Macintosh software comprises over 18 percent of all software sold, according to the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs.