, Envox Worldwide, a leading
global provider of voice solutions, today announced the release of Envox 6. This capability provides fast,
session -based communication between a mobile phone user and an
application to enable a variety of wireless applications, such as
prepaid roaming and chat. Flanagan, president and COO of Envox
Worldwide.
These statements relate to future events or our future financial
performance.

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In April of 2004,
Wizzard acquired MedivoxRx Technologies.

Metaphor Launches International Distribution of its Packaged Speech Applications with New Customer Wins

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-- ScanSoft RealSpeak(TM) TTS 4. In addition, Envox 6. These products and services enable
enterprise customers and service providers to significantly reduce operating
costs, improve customer satisfaction and retention, and generate new revenue
streams. These statements are only predictions and may differ
materially from actual future results or events.

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envox. "For well over a year, Natural Voices customers
have enjoyed the benefits of an excellent Wizzard/AT+T relationship.NET based Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
to customize Metaphor's packaged applications and offer them to the
U. It is offering multilingual applications
based on Metaphor's application packages, and is also using Metaphor's
high-level tools to customize and administer applications for
customers. Moreover , with Cepa, our SpeechOutlook solution is now
being extended to new interfaces for personal information management
(PIM).

An 'engine' or 'generator' or 'core' here is considered to be something which only produces speech as output when given text as input, but does not do this for any larger purpose or function .

They would be used to power or provide speech for other applications and can be expected to be embedded in or otherwise be a component of those applications.

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Enhancements Add Capabilities for Developers of Speech-Enabled, VoiceXML,
VoIP, Wireless and Web Services Solutions

WESTBOROUGH, Mass."
Metaphor has the largest portfolio of speech IVR application
packages available today. These applications allow companies to deploy
speech solutions on leading IVR platforms quickly and at a low total
cost of ownership, while still maintaining the highest quality of
automated service using speech.

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AT+T Labs' Natural Voices software
offers "plug-and-play" language support instead of requiring different
engines for each language.rxtalks.metaphorsol.

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AT+T and Wizzard Software Agree to Extend Agreement for Wizzard to Continue Distributing AT+T Natural Voices TTS Product Portfolio Worldwide

Wav file licensing for a wide variety of environments where
AT+T Natural Voices excellent voice quality and automation add
value.

Voice Fonts that allow users to experience different
languages, based on different male and female voices . Wizzard's successes have lead to expanding opportunities
in both the government and commercial sectors . There are important risk factors that could cause actual
results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements,
including, but not limited to risks associated with changes in general
economic and business conditions, actions of our competitors, the
extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for
our services, the time and expense involved in such development
activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services,
changes in our business strategies and acts of terror against the
United States.

Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

WELLESLEY, Mass. With all three wins, we continue to validate our mission of
enabling mass adoption of speech applications through high-quality,
low-cost packaged solutions and the fastest tools for developing and
managing applications. The
Company's flagship enterprise product is SpeechOutlook (TM), which
allows voice access to Outlook by phone. SpeechOutlook(TM) is now
available for anyone who has an Outlook account on MS Exchange Server
through a signup at the company website: www.

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A phone simulator has been added in Envox 6.1 is further proof of
our commitment," stated Mark D.

"We are extremely pleased with the confidence that AT+T has shown
in Wizzard," said Bruce Phifer , General Manager of Technology and
Services for Wizzard. Wizzard has achieved global recognition
because of its expertise with voice communication whether it is via PC
or telephone. It is also using Metaphor Conversation Manager (MCM),
Metaphor's C# and .

About Metaphor Solutions

Metaphor Solutions, Inc. offers packaged speech IVR (Interactive
Voice Response) solutions to enterprises and call centers with the
most human-like caller experience at the lowest cost of deployment .

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customers and service providers looking to ensure a smooth migration path to
the emerging standards and technologies that will be required for their voice
solutions in the future.
For more information, contact -- Catherine Van Evans -- +1 508 871 7604 or
Stacey Holifield -- +1 617 587 2026, sholifield@brodeur. AT+T Natural Voices software is an
example of the innovation power of AT+T Labs, AT+T's world-class R+D
organization that develops new services and technologies for business
customers.com

Legal Notice

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
"Forward-looking Statements" as defined in the Private Securities
litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. Metaphor delivers its solutions through its
patent-pending Metaphor Conversation Manager (MCM) that allows the
fastest and most flexible speech IVR application development.com

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The user configurable logs allow developers to track
information about their VoiceXML applications and simplify the
debugging of VoiceXML-based solutions.

* Hardware Simulator.
"Wizzard has become an exceptional sales/support channel for AT+T
Natural Voices," said Mike Robinson, AT+T Intellectual Property
Licensing Manager.----

Kainos, Oration and Cepa Choose Metaphor Packaged Applications to
Offer Hosted Speech IVR Services

Metaphor Solutions, a leading provider of packaged speech
applications and tools, today announced new customers to expand its
distribution to international markets. The
solution will be deployed on the VoiceGenie platform using ScanSoft's
speech recognition and text-to-speech engines.
Examples of speech applications include Telephone Banking, Location
Finder , Inventory and Pricing Request, Password Reset, and Literature
Request, as well as SpeechOutlook (TM).

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"By bringing AT+T's extensive TTS technology
portfolio to market through Wizzard's low-cost sales/support model,
we've been able to reach a fast-growing and diverse market with
high-quality and affordable products.

Runtime engines for distribution of AT+T Natural Voices with
products or deployment for corporate usage. All the new customers provide
hosted self service by phone using Metaphor speech IVR applications.
The third customer, Cepa, targeting the North American markets, is
a provider of personal information management solutions to corporate
clients, college students and affinity groups.

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This new release includes enhancements to the product's
development , deployment and management capabilities.1 include a graphical programming environment that
reduces development time by 50% or more, an embedded VoiceXML browser for
executing VoiceXML scripts, numerous integrations for leading telephony and
speech products, a reliable runtime environment that supports up to 240 ports
per server, and powerful management tools for easily configuring, monitoring
and managing large-scale deployments.

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Its initial focus is on the financial services and
healthcare sectors in Greece.
The company has the largest number of packaged speech applications in
the industry .com.

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Envox Worldwide Launches Envox 6.1 Communications Development Platform

"Now, more than ever , Envox 6.

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For more information, please
visit http://www.

Business Editors

PITTSBURGH ----Wizzard Software
(OTCBB:WIZD) is pleased to announce that the current
licensing/distribution relationship with AT+T (NYSE:T), allowing
Wizzard worldwide distribution of AT+T's Natural Voices (R)
text-to-speech engine, has been extended for an additional five-year
period. market on a hosted basis.NET technologies, enabling millions of IT
developers to easily customize and deploy speech applications.

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Specific enhancements made in this release of the software include:
* Support for the latest speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speaker
verification technologies from the industry leaders including:
-- ScanSoft OpenSpeech(TM) Recognizer (OSR) 3.

* Support for Intel(R) NetStructure(TM) Host Media Processing (HMP)
software release 1 .

* Expanded Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Support for Voice over IP-
based solutions. Headquartered in Boston, Envox's products and services are available
through a network of global channel partners."
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.

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* Support for additional wireless services through Unstructured
Supplementary Service Data (USSD)."
For more information about Envox 6.1 or to download evaluation software,
please visit http://www.asp.com. We are pleased to extend this
relationship for the benefit of AT+T, Wizzard, and our mutual
customers. Cepa is deploying a
version of Metaphor 's SpeechOutlook application that will allow
callers to name-dial contacts in their contact lists , listen to their
emails, send emails, and set up personal and group appointments. Deployments can
be hosted or installed on-premise.

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* Support for dynamic grammars for all supported speech engines.1, when combined
with the Envox VoiceXML Studio, provides developers with a comprehensive
VoiceXML solution that offers advanced development, deployment and management
capabilities.
"Envox Worldwide remains focused on creating 'best-in-class' products and
services for our customers , and the release of Envox 6. The
company's software and related services dramatically reduce the time, cost,
and complexity of creating voice solutions.
AT+T's Natural Voices has been licensed by Wizzard's customers to
be used in a variety of formats, including homeland security
technology , simulators for training in the US Military + NASA
astronauts and in accessibility software to aid the visually impaired.
"With Kainos and Oration, Metaphor is now launching its
international distribution ," said Michael Kuperstein, CEO of Metaphor
Solutions.

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envox.wizzardsoftware. Applications include solutions in
Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, and for the Enterprise. Callers can dial into Metaphor's
inventory of speech applications and experience them live using the
published phone numbers on the company website:
http://metaphorsol.

This category houses sites which provide the basic speech synthesis engines, whether multi-lingual or not, whether from academia or commercial souces.

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* VoiceXML Logging.1, Feature Pack 1.com/software/envox-6."
Wizzard plans to step up efforts to market Natural Voices in Linux
and Windows(R) versions to corporate customers and the software
development community in the following four fast growing categories:

Developer's kits so that programmers can integrate AT+T
Natural Voices into custom Linux and Window's applications. AT+T's Natural Voices team can create
voices up to three times faster than the industry standard and the
AT+T technology provides exceptionally high channel density. Additional information on
MedivoxRx can be found at www. Kainos has initial call center
customers in the retail and healthcare sectors.
In addition, Metaphor offers customers and partners a suite of
tools that include Web -based tools for Application Customization,
Report Generation and Application Monitoring, as well as a development
environment based on C# and . All
packaged speech IVR applications run on standard voice gateways based
on VoiceXML and SALT.

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The other applications might be things like interactive voice response units, page readers, handheld dictionaries, language translators and so forth .

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telephony board on development systems.

About Envox Worldwide
Envox Worldwide is a leading global provider of voice solutions.
This announcement is viewed as a milestone, in that long term
continuation of the Wizzard/AT+T relationship is a very positive
factor to Wizzard customers whose technology strategies are dependent
on our ability to continue offering/supporting this exceptional
technology at compelling prices. Wizzard architects
solutions to business problems using its expertise in consulting ,
speech development tools and building speech based applications for
the Desktop and Internet . We disclaim any
intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise.K.
Oration, the second customer, is the leading hosting services
provider in the Greek market.

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More information on Wizzard
Software can be found on the Investor's Page at
www. Metaphor markets its applications directly as
well as through a network of partners and resellers.

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-- Nuance Verifier(TM) 3.

Key features of Envox 6.
In addition to its extensive functionality, Envox 6.1 lowers the total
cost of ownership by providing outstanding price/performance advantages and an
ability to leverage prior investments in hardware, software and solution
development, while providing a smooth migration path to the emerging standards
and technologies that will be required in the future.
This agreement substantially extends Wizzard Software's current
position as AT+T's preferred channel for their award winning Natural
Voices desktop Text-To-Speech Software Developer's Kit and AT+T
Natural Voices Telephony Server edition, enabling Wizzard to continue
to offer distributable runtime Text-To-Speech engines worldwide for an
additional five-year period.

About Wizzard Software:

Founded in 1996, Wizzard Software has become a leader in the
speech technology application development market . 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.
The first customer is Kainos , a large system integrator in the
United Kingdom market that has deployed Metaphor's suite of speech IVR
applications. "These wins highlight the strength of our packaged speech
applications and tools in allowing easy extensions to foreign
languages.

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