U.K Press Releases

Last Updated: March 13, 2006

22|Feb|06

Removes the Human Voice from Podcasts

Major Advance in Podcasting:

MagneticTime announces MT-Podcast, for podcasting
without voice recording

Let MT-Podcast Become Your Corporate or
Personal Radio Announcer!

MagneticTime (www.magnetictime.com), the innovative mobile audio company, announced today MT-Podcast, which lets anyone produce podcasts without the need for voice recordings. MT-Podcast will be available in Q2 and will revolutionize podcasting through deleting the need to record people speaking.
 
Users – corporate, departmental, team or individual – need only write their script in a Word document, and let MT-Podcast be their podcast announcer.  MT-Podcast translates script into a natural sounding male or female voice in MP3 format, which can be posted on the internet as a podcast, as well as played on any MP3 player (including iPod, PDAs, mobile phones/cellphones, and PCs).  

MT-Podcast lets anyone produce professional-sounding podcast recordings, easily and at low cost.

 To create a podcast, people currently must read a script into a microphone, and then convert the recording into an MP3.  The UK’s Stuff magazine - and many other magazines and newspapers - currently produce podcasts this way.  MT-Podcast simplifies this process by automatically and accurately translating written Word documents to MP3 Podcasts without the need for recorded voice.  MT-Podcast can also be used for training manuals and news services, and anywhere else where people have traditionally had to read and record written material.

MagneticTime Speech Technology

Using advanced data processing and summarization technologies, MT-Podcast is based on MagneticTime’s MT1 text to speech product for iPods, PCs, PDAs and mobile phone (announced in November 2005), which lets users listen to emails and Word documents in MP3 format while traveling, commuting - or even exercising. 

MT-Podcast uses advanced speech technologies, replacing the synthesized ”tin can” voices of the past with new natural sounding voices.  MT-Podcast’s high quality text-to-speech technology transforms Word documents into natural speech, reading them aloud with the flexibility and richness of natural sounding speech.  The software speaks multiple languages and reads names, numbers and currencies for an optimal and smooth translation.

 Richard O’Donnell, MagneticTime CEO said: “We are proud that many of our customers believe our text to speech technology to be the most advanced in the market today. These same customers have confirmed that building MT-Podcast on this foundation will save the corporate and personal user a lot of the time and money, which is currently spent on editing or hiring actors to produce Podcasts.”

Pricing and availability

MT-Podcast will be available (for Windows 2000 & XP) in Q2 2006, for download at: www.magnetictime.com Pricing will reflect the MagneticTime philosophy of providing excellent value coupled with innovative technology. Currently available in English, MT-Podcast will also be available soon in French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Belgian Dutch and Swedish.

Further information from:
email: info@magnetictime.com