[MacSpeech-Announce] March News from MacSpeech

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This as been a busy year so far for MacSpeech. Our last communication  
to you was on January 27th, when we told you about our new Spanish  
LanguagePak, and ScriptPaks for TurboTax, Quicken 2006 and QuickBooks  
Pro 2006.

Since then we have released ScriptPaks for Final Draft, iLife 05,  
iWeb, Pages 2.0, Keynote 3.0, iWork 06 and Microsoft Office 2004. All  
of these are available in our online store.

Of course, the first question everyone asks these days is when will  
there be a Universal Binary (or native) version of iListen? The good  
news is that you don't have to wait. We have tested iListen on the  
new Intel iMac and it works fine. We have heard it works fine on the  
MacBook Pro as well, although you may have to read one story at a  
time and let it analyze before reading another due to a problem we  
haven't pinned down that seems to apply only to that model.

We are hard at work on a native version of iListen, and expect to be  
finished with it later this year. Obviously, we hope it is finished  
sooner, rather than later, but having been down this road not once,  
but twice before (going from 68K code to PPC, and then Mac OS 9 to  
Mac OS X), we know that its done when its done, and not a minute before.

Looking ahead, we have some new ScriptPaks in the pipeline, including  
ones for iLife 06, Nisus Express, and a host of others. We are also  
in the process of testing some new microphones and hope to have some  
great announcements about those in the future.

Another question we frequently get is about upgrades. If you have any  
version prior to 1.5 you can upgrade to 1.6.8 for $39.95 from our  
online store. You will receive a disk image to download the full  
version of iListen. All you will need to use it is your original  
Activation Code. If you have any version from 1.5 on, you can upgrade  
for free from our web site. If you have lost your Activation Code, we  
would be happy to provide it, as long as we have a record in our  
registration database for you. Contact <questions at macspeech.com> for  
more information.

If you are one of those who have been meaning to try IListen (or try  
it again), now is a great time to do so. The software is better than  
ever, and we are now also providing more resources than ever to help  
you get up and running.

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That's it for this month, and once again, thanks for your continued  
support of MacSpeech!

Best Regards,

Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
MacSpeech, Inc.