New software for the visually impaired allows to use talking catalog

Wizzard Software (OTCBB:WIZD) announced today that The Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired (SBS) has selected AT&T Natural Voices to power their talking catalog. For over 25 years, the SBS has been dedicated to making information accessible to the blind and visually impaired and is based in Zurich. SBS is a full member of and works in conjunction with the Daisy Consortium, who have set standards to provide digital talking books to the blind, visually impaired, physically handicapped, or otherwise print-disabled readers around the world. DAISY denotes the Digital Accessible Information SYstem.

"AT&T Natural Voices has turned out to be a very useful tool," said Markus Wildi, Head of the IT Department for SBS. "Together with the DAISY technology, Wizzard and Natural Voices provided us with the means to transform very large quantities of text material into structured audio information of very high quality within a very short time."

SBS produces a talking catalog of their available Daisy talking books. This catalog itself is a structured talking book according to the DAISY standard. The DAISY National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Standard is based on XML/SMIL computer language and provides structured access and navigation facilities to stored text, audio and video information. Currently, the SBS catalog contains 3000 titles, which represents 30 hours of spoken text.

The process to create the talking catalog is a simple one. The SBS catalog database produces an HTML file which is read by EasePublisher, a special DAISY production software. EasePublisher translates the HTML file to DAISY NISO files. EasePublisher then feeds the text elements to the Natural Voices TTS engine. Natural Voices then easily converts a natural-sounding, high-quality audio output in WAV or MP3 format. Users then access the catalog via special hardware or software DAISY players.

"Easy accessibility to information is critical to everyone, particularly those with visual disabilities," said Danielle Lewis, Marketing Director for Wizzard Software. "Wizzard is delighted to be able to provide SBS with the highest quality speech technology so they may supply sight-impaired individuals with access to literary works."

Currently, nearly 37 million people worldwide are blind. A new study performed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that without extra intervention, the global number of blind individuals would increase to 76 million in 2020.

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 PC or telephone. Wizzard's successes have lead to expanding opportunities in both the government and commercial sectors.

In April of 2004, Wizzard acquired MedivoxRx Technologies. Established in 2000, MedivoxRx is the originator of "Rex", the talking prescription pill bottle, which "talks" to the patient allowing them to distinguish what type of medication is in the bottle and hear critical information on dosage amounts and refill parameters. In September of 2005, Wizzard acquired Interim Health Care of Wyoming. Based in Casper, Wyoming, Interim is part of the fast growing home health segment of the healthcare industry, providing a wide range of visiting nurse services to the elderly, wounded and sick. It is one of the 300 home health agencies that comprise Interim Health Care.

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