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Last Updated: March 13, 2006

With some universities in North America now using podcasting of lectures as an aid to study, news comes of a new piece of easy- to-use software that is a step up from this approach: the MT1 from MagneticTime allows users to 'play' any Word document – such as original lecture content or suggesting reading material – and email text.

New education aid for students: the downloadable MT1 from MagneticTime lets users listen to email and Word documents on the move – on iPod, Pocket PC, or Mobile Phone 

An integral desktop player enables the application for laptops and PCs.

MagneticTime has announced the MT1 - downloadable software that converts emails and Word documents into speech via MP3s for use with iPods, Pocket PC’s, mobile phones, or any PC. Available at www.magnetictime.com priced £22.99, MT1 is currently available in English - with additional languages like French, Spanish and German to follow.

Three versions of MT1 are currently available for download: MT-iPodTM,  MT-PhoneTM and MT-PdaTM. Each comes with a Platinum Grade voice & desktop player that allows emails and Word documents to be played on a PC or laptop.

MagneticTime is to make licences available to educational establishments. Licensing will allow the MP3 files created by MT1 to be stored on a central server - for general student access - or saved on CD/DVD for distribution.  Enquiries to:  support@magnetictime.com

In addition to producing email and Word documents as MP3s, MT1 acts “intelligently” – in the role of personal assistant - to organise information and make decisions. Its user definable rules engine provides a powerful tool to select and filter data - much like “anti-spam” software does.
 
MT1 works with Windows 2000 and XP, and all versions of MS Word, Outlook and Outlook Express. Documents and emails are stored on the mobile device and PC in libraries, the same way as songs.  “Anything you can do with an MP3 ‘song’ you can now do with your personal information - play it, copy it, archive it etc,” says MagneticTime CEO Richard O’Donnell.

“It’s a step up from using podcasting of lectures and is yet complimentary because it also allows any document in Word to be emailed as an attachment and listened to.”

MT1’s MP3 files typically use four-five times less “space” than the average MP3 song and MT1 can be set to automatically select and load emails on a regular (e.g. daily) basis.  And the natural voice of MT1 bears no resemblance to the bad sci-fi movie voices of the past. It works by being downloaded and installed on to a PC and is designed to work “out of the box”. Apart from being able to synchronise with a mobile device such as an iPod, other novel features include natural voices and export to multiple devices.

Users can set MT1 to send emails and Word documents - all or selected ones - to the receiving devices.  iPod users can also use the auto load function of iTunes to download emails and Word documents and to listen in iTunes itself.

Further information from:
email: info@magnetictime.com