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Good to the Core: Wizzard Software Offering AT&T Natural Voices for Apple Mac OS X

Business Wire, June 2, 2005

PITTSBURGH -- Wizzard Software (OTCBB:WIZD) announced today that AT&T Natural Voices will soon be available for Apple Mac OS 10.3 in English, French, German and Spanish. Wizzard will be making this exceptional technology available to Apple application developers.

Named "Technology of the Year" by Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in international consulting and training on emerging high technology and industrial markets, AT&T's Natural Voices product line is widely considered to be one of the most human-sounding speech synthesis systems in the world. AT&T Natural Voices offers "plug-and-play" language support instead of requiring different engines for each language, and the AT&T technology provides exceptionally high channel density.

"AT&T Natural Voices is currently enjoying incredible popularity in the Windows and Linux environments," stated Bruce Phifer, Wizzard General Manager of Technology and Services. "When you consider the dynamic growth of Apple products and the high quality of user interface that Apple users expect, it seemed very compelling to make this great technology available to the Apple development community as well."

Mac OS X allows application developers to seamlessly incorporate Text-To-Speech into a variety of Mac applications and is beneficial in a number of vertical markets, including accessibility, business automation, security systems, and education. AT&T's Natural Voices has been licensed by Wizzard to a growing number of developers to be used in a variety of environments, including personal productivity, Homeland security, alert systems, and simulators for training in the US Military & NASA astronauts. Application developers wishing to learn more about Wizzard's offering of AT&T 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 (NasdaqNM:AAPL) reported their 2005 first quarterly revenue and net income as the highest in the history of their company, with 74% revenue growth. Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh(R) units during this quarter, representing a 26% increase in CPU units over the year-ago quarter. According to US News and World Report, Macintosh owners buy 30% more software than their Windows counterparts. Further, Macintosh software comprises over 18% 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.

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. Additional information on MedivoxRx can be found at www.rxtalks.com. More information on Wizzard Software can be found on the Investor's Page at www.wizzardsoftware.com.

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