Elan Speech launches Speechissimo for MAC OS X: The official text reader for those who love to make life easier.

Elan Speech, worldwide provider of text to speech, launches Speechissimo, its first consumer targeted solution for MAC OS X users, who will have, for the first time, the opportunity to experience a high end vocalisation tool, speech-enabled by Elan Sayso high quality multilingual TTS technology.

(PRWEB) September 4, 2003 -- As the official reader of all electronic documents that users prefer to listen to rather than read, Speechissimo is a smart tool allowing access to written information in a lively and natural way. Speech-enabled with Elan Sayso(tm), Speechissimo reads any text out loud in real time, with an intelligent and natural sounding voice.

Speechissimo is installed in a wink, in the chosen language, to quietly sit in the corner of the screen. The user just selects the piece of text he is interested in, copys it and presses "play", or drags and drops the piece of text onto Speechissimo to start reading it. Speechissimo offers the end user the comfort and freedom of doing anything he wants while listening news and weather bulletins, emails, meeting notes, documents, etc. It can also be used as a proof reading tool, language learning aid, etc. Speechissimo already speaks US English, German, French and Spanish.

With Speechissimo, Elan Speech showcases the maturity and stability of its high end technology, Elan Sayso(tm), deploying it to market its first Mac OS consumer application, and repackaging it for OEM programmes.

Speechissimo is available directly via http://speechissimo.digalo.com at 49 USD per machine and per language.

Technical requirements

Minimum configuration : G3 500 Mhz on Mac OS X 10.2
Recommenced : G4 500 MHz on Mac OS X 10.2
Free space on HD required : 50 MB
Download package size : 19 to 36 MB

About Elan Speech

As a leading world player in Text to Speech (TTS), Elan Speech focuses exclusively on the development and marketing of natural-language interfaces. Elan Speech brings organisations new ways of interacting with their clients, providing new opportunities to speech-enable their world through revenue-generating applications.

Elan TTS is the automatic production of speech, through a computer-based system able to read any text aloud. It is deployed worldwide across multimedia applications, wireless and mobile devices, Internet, telecom and automotive systems. TTS speech-enables services and applications such as voice portals, voice emails, unified messaging, talking web, interactive games, educational software or navigation systems.

Since the beginning of Elan TTS in 1986, the company's multi-lingual TTS products have been deployed across a wide range of revenue-earning applications by hundreds of organisations worldwide. These include: Alcatel, Atos Origin, Avis, Bosch Blaupunkt, BVRP, CAE, Cegetel, Daimler Chrysler, Harman Becker, Intervoice, Magneti Marelli, Navtech, Oki, PSA, Siemens, Support Comm, Tecnomen, Temic, Unisys, Vivendi, etc More information at www.elanspeech.com

Press contact : Caroline Houël, chouel@elanspeech.com; +33 (0)5 62 24 71 22