Wizzard Software Announces Newest Release of AT&T Natural Voices Text to Speech

Highlights Windows SAPI 5.x Support with .net C, ASP, Flash/PHP Samples

Wizzard Software (NYSE-Alternext: WZE) announced today the availability of Version 4.2 of AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech (TTS) for Windows. The software’s new streamlined architecture makes it easier and faster for application and web developers to deploy high performance speech solutions. This new version features twenty voices in eight languages, including the recent addition of Italian. Wizzard continues to make AT&T technology very cost effective for applications developers and is pleased to add this new and improved Windows version to complement the 2008 release of 4.2 for Linux.

AT&T Natural Voices is widely acknowledged in the industry as the most natural-sounding synthesized speech system in the world, and Wizzard offers a variety of licensing models to Developers, Integrators and Business Clients. By continuing to improve Natural Voices, AT&T is reinforcing its resolve to provide world-class speech synthesis to mainstream markets through Wizzard Software.

“We are very excited about our Windows release of AT&T Natural Voices Version 4.2,” said Bruce Phifer, General Manager of Wizzard’s Technology and Services division. “Our clients require the highest quality natural-sounding synthesized speech technology at competitive terms and prices, and we are confident that Version 4.2 meets that requirement. Our close working relationship with AT&T has produced a very compelling combination of leading edge speech technology and low cost distribution and we are very enthusiastic about the possibilities this presents to our clients and the long term growth of the industries they support.”

Wizzard invites Developers, Integrators and Business Clients to visit its website to sample the improved, high-end voice quality and review information regarding licensing possibilities for this extraordinary technology, including the use of audio files in Flash and website applications.

About Wizzard Technology & Services (T&S: a division of Wizzard
Software)
Wizzard’s T&S Division is the preferred supplier of speech technologies to clients who create, distribute and deploy speech enabled applications. Long-standing relationships with the providers of state of the art speech technologies has enabled Wizzard T&S to support the deployment of speech applications across a variety of industries and at the same time provides a strong core of speech expertise within the company to enhance the performance of Wizzard’s media delivery and advertising business.

About Wizzard Software
Founded in 1996, Wizzard Software has become a leader in the speech technology application 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 government and commercial sectors, including several healthcare industry products and services. Most recently, Wizzard Software entered the exciting new realm of digital media and is already the world’s largest distributor of digital media via RSS (podcasts). For more information, please visit www.wizzardsoftware.com.

Power Instruction Set Architecture Version 2.06 Available

Power.org, the organization that promotes and develops standards for Power Architecture® technology, today announced the release of Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA(TM)) Version 2.06, which incorporates significant advances for server and embedded applications that improve performance and efficiency, and speed design cycles. The revised ISA can be downloaded from www.power.org/resources/downloads/.

Power ISA Version 2.06 defines significant extensions for the embedded environment including an enhanced memory management architecture, logical partitioning and hypervisor support, embedded page table support, and multi-threading. It contains a new vector-scalar floating-point facility that merges and extends existing vector and scalar floating-point operations; numerous new fixed-point, floating-point, and memory-management instructions; a new storage attribute in support of strong storage access ordering, and many other enhancements.

For server applications, Power ISA Version 2.06 includes major extensions to the scalar and SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) floating-point architecture. The Vector-Scalar Extension (VSX) unifies and extends the existing scalar floating-point and vector facilities to improve floating-point performance for compute-intensive tasks. VSX introduces support for double-precision floating-point vector operations and consolidates existing vector and floating-point scalar registers into a unified 64-entry register file. These enhancements enable increased parallelism in double-precision floating-point processing with better execution pipeline utilization, leading to increased application performance.

“Power Architecture technology continues to adapt to market-driven requirements and break new ground in areas like virtualization and performance,” said Wolfram Sauer, chairman of the Power Architecture Advisory Council.

About Power.org
Power Architecture technology is behind millions of innovative products, including the world’s fastest supercomputers, leading video game consoles, and electronic systems in most of today’s car models. Every phone call, email and Web page touches hundreds of Power Architecture systems. Power Architecture is the only computer architecture in the world with proven scalability from the smallest devices to the largest supercomputers while preserving user application binary compatibility.

The open Power.org community, formed in 2005, is the organization driving collaborative innovation around Power Architecture technology. Power.org’s mission is to optimize interoperability, accelerate innovation and drive increased adoption of this leading processor architecture. For more details, visit www.power.org.

EzHDSAN

1 Beyond Announces EzHDSAN, the Industry’s First Plug-and-Play HD SAN for Macs and PCs

Easily installed system offers up to 96TBs of RAID 6 protected storage; allows multi-stream, real-time HD editing for up to 14 simultaneous users; pricing starts at $8,995

1 Beyond™, Inc. a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems, today announced the 1 Beyond ™, the industry’s first plug-and-play SAN to provide up to 96 TBs of RAID 6 protected storage, allowing multi-stream, real-time HD editing for up to 14 simultaneous users. Thanks to a unique patent-pending design, the 1 Beyond EzHDSAN is extremely easy to install, using a single standard Ethernet cable to connect each workstation to the SAN. The new shared storage solution for both Mac and PC is available immediately with prices starting at $8,995. The 1 Beyond EzHDSAN will be showcased for the first time at the 2009 NAB Show (Las Vegas Convention Center, April 20th to 23rd 2009) in booth SL8625.

“We designed our new EzHDSAN with three main objectives in mind: reliability, simplicity, and high performance. It also happens to be the most cost effective in the industry, with the lowest cost of ownership, price per seat, cost per terabyte and cost of installation of any shared HD SAN storage in the industry,” comments Terry Cullen, 1 Beyond’s CEO and founder.

The 1 Beyond EzHDSAN™ is available as a completely pre-configured and tested turnkey solution. It requires no technical knowledge, no intermediate switches, complicated wiring or Fibre Optics. It can be installed by an operator in a matter of minutes by loading a simple driver on each workstation and connecting one standard Ethernet cable between the computer and the SAN.

The 1 Beyond EzHDSAN™ system starts with an 8 disk model with 16TBs and can scale up to 24, 48 or 96 TBs of raw data and supports simultaneous real-time HD multi-stream editing in the most popular formats including DVCPRO HD, P2, VariCam, AVC-Intra, XDCAM EX, HDV, DNX220HD, M-JPEG, MPEG 2 / I-frame, ProRes 422, Infinity JPEG 2000 and others.

It is designed to handle from 6 to 14 users/workstations, and can also be connected to a company’s Local Area Network (Ethernet), allowing an unlimited number of authorized users to store and retrieve data at very high bandwidth.

1 Beyond’s new EzHDSAN also features RAID 6 (or dual RAID 6) protection, allowing for 2 (or 4) disk failures without experiencing any data loss. It also has the ability to define Hot Standby disks to automatically replace any failed disks 24/7 without intervention. Featuring predictive failure technology, the EzHDSAN continually monitors data disk performance. Should any parameters deviate from the acceptable norm, or should there be a failure, the EzHDSAN can send a warning email to 3 separate parties. In turn, the disk controller and individual drives can be interrogated remotely through a separate Ethernet port without disturbing users or disrupting their work, so that maintenance can be performed at the appropriate time, thereby greatly increasing efficiency.

About 1 Beyond
Founded in 1996, 1 Beyond, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of professional PC-based video editing, compositing and storage systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional high-end systems. This value leadership is due to constant technical innovation, including 11 years of industry firsts. 1 Beyond delivers turnkey video end-to-end solutions that provide customers with the highest performance and quality digital workflow in all video formats including both compressed and uncompressed HD. The company offers a wide range of systems including award-winning laptops, desktops, mobiles and Storage Area Networks used in all phases of editing and compositing. All 1 Beyond systems are designed with true open architecture and built on world standards. This ensures the customer a continued upgrade path and hence, the longest period for ROI and non-obsolescence. For more information, visit www.1Beyond.com or call 877-One-Beyond.

Fanfare to Integrate iTest With Agilent Technologies’ Multiservices Test Solution

Companies to Offer Integrated Testing Solution that Boosts Productivity in Current Economic Conditions

Fanfare, delivering innovative testing solutions to network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers (SPs), today announced it is partnering with Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A – News) to offer joint customers the ability to seamlessly integrate their test assets and automate complex system testing. Fanfare’s test automation solution, iTest® will be more tightly integrated with Agilent’s N2X multi-services test solution, accelerating the configuration and automation of test scenarios.

The Agilent N2X is widely used by NEMs and SPs to validate the performance and scalability characteristics of next-generation network equipment, and is designed to test IP-forwarding devices that deliver video, VoIP, data services and business VPNs. It is used in out-of-service lab environments to test at real-world scale with realistic traffic, ensuring quality of multiplay services. The N2X addresses the test challenges that multiplay services impose across the IP/MPLS core, carrier edge and broadband access networks.

Fanfare’s iTest orchestrates system testing by executing simultaneous commands to a multitude of different devices in a network to simulate real-world network testing. This enhances the quality of services that SPs offer, reduces time to market, and improves productivity across the entire service development and product development life cycle. Integrating Agilent’s N2X with iTest will ease the process of automating test assets for existing and prospective SP customers, providing a comprehensive solution for their system testing needs.

“Our customers have been telling us that they want to use Fanfare’s iTest to automate the Agilent N2X in their labs to ultimately get the best of both worlds,” said Toni Piwonka-Corle, general manager of Agilent’s Data Networks Operation. “We’re pleased to announce that the current version of Fanfare’s iTest supports the latest Agilent N2X software release, and that we will continue the integration of our two products to boost our customers’ productivity.”

“In today’s uncertain economic conditions, productivity-enhancement tools such as iTest can play a critical role in helping carriers maintain their competitive edge,” said Tom Ryan, president and CEO of Fanfare. “Fanfare will continue to work with leading companies like Agilent to meet the market demand for integration between test equipment and test automation software, contributing to overall improvements in the quality chain.”

About Fanfare
Fanfare provides automated testing solutions that enable service providers, network equipment manufacturers, and enterprises to enhance productivity throughout the quality workflow by streamlining system and device testing, reducing product cycles, and lowering costs. Using Fanfare, quality assurance teams and developers can leverage a common testing platform to deliver quality services and products to market faster and more efficiently. For more information, please visit www.fanfaresoftware.com.

Premiere Global Services Launches PGiMeet Webcast

New Web Streaming Service Empowers PGi Customers to Instantly Connect with Thousands

Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE: PGI – News), a global provider of on-demand, applied communication technologies, today announced the launch of PGiMeet Webcast that will enable its customers to deliver one-to-many multimedia events in an easy-to-use, cost-effective streaming format. The addition of PGiMeet Webcast further solidifies PGi’s leadership as the go-to source for virtual business meetings – whether held on the phone or over the Web.

Now more than ever, businesses are looking to streaming technologies as a cost-effective way to deliver messages to their constituents and to archive rich and meaningful content. Marketing webinars, product demonstrations, classroom-style lectures, town hall meetings, and investor relations conferences are a few of the many ways that companies can use webcasting technology to better communicate key points to large groups.

Currently available for Premiere Global customers in North America and Europe, PGiMeet Webcast gives hosts better flexibility and control of their streaming Web events and simplifies the user-experience with instant online access. In addition, this comprehensive new streaming offering includes recording, archiving, reporting, management services, email reminders, Q&A, and live polling for hosts to design meaningful and engaging events.

“The addition of PGiMeet Webcast to our broad suite of audio and Web collaboration solutions adds another tool for our customers to effectively reach their audiences,” said Jacqueline Yeaney, CMO, Premiere Global Services, Inc. “We are excited about PGiMeet Webcast, as we see the demand for streaming technologies continuing to grow as companies look for more productive and efficient ways to host large, virtual meetings.”

About Premiere Global Services, Inc.
Premiere Global Services, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand, applied communication technologies. Our PGi Communications Operating System supports business applications within the following solution sets: PGiMeet, PGiSend, PGiNotify and PGiMarket, formerly known as Conferencing & Collaboration, Document Solutions, Notifications & Reminders and eMarketing, respectively.

Premiere Global is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. We have a global presence in 24 countries and nearly one million users from our established base of over 50,000 customers, which includes nearly 90% of the Fortune 500. Additional information can be found at www.premiereglobal.com.