ECHOSPEECH Version 1.2 Plugin for Netscape Navigator. ==================================================== Voice of the Web Now you can add the web's best quality voice to your web pages. Echo Speech Corporaton has recently released a set of plugins for Netscape Navigator version 2.0 that allow people to listen in real time as compressed ECHOSPEECH files stream down from the world wide web. ECHOSPEECH is a very high quality speech coder that compresses speech 18.5 to 1. This means that 16 bit speech sampled at 11025 Hz is compressed to 9600 bits per second. Even people with 14400 modems can listen in real time to ECHOSPEECH, and because ECHOSPEECH was designed to code speech sampled at 11025 Hz rather than 8000 Hz, it sounds better. ECHOSPEECH is also extremely fast. Real time decoding of 11kHz speech requires only 30% of a 486SX-33 CPU. In addition, our plugins take only seconds to download - they are 40-50k bytes uncompressed. No minutes of waiting for a 1MB file to download. ECHOSPEECH plugins make it easy to add speech to web pages. There is no server software to install or configure. Your ISP only needs to declare a new MIME type. Adding speech to your web pages is now as easy as embedding graphics. First, compress your source speech files with our compression utility. Next, put those compressed files up on your web server. Finally add html 'EMBED' tags to your documents, and you're done! Download our plugin and hear for yourself! We are confident you will agree that ECHOSPEECH is the highest quality voice coder available on the web. Plugins are currently available for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1. Plugins for the Apple Macintosh are in progress. A license to put compressed ECHOSPEECH files up on a web server is only $99 per machine. There is no per stream charge. In addition, this license is good for any number of web sites served by that single machine. ISP's and web service providers can add speech to many different clients pages for only $99. Add the Voice of the Web to your site TODAY!