As we wrap up development for Speak it 3 we are opening up our final testing stage to external testers! If you would like to participate in the beta test simply visit our contact form above, and select “Beta Sign Up” for subject. Once we receive your submission we will add your email to the beta notification list. You will receive an email from Apple as soon as our beta build is approved and you will be able to download and install the beta.
In order to be part of the beta test you will need an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 7 or later, as well as downloading the test flight beta testing app (link below).
As all our loyal and patient Speak it! users know, we have been promising you a new version of Speak it! for over a year now, and development of the updated app was going great for an end of summer release when iOS 8 was introduced. At the time we had to make the hard choice at the end of October that it was no longer feasible to add iOS 7 and 8 support on 5+ year old codebase that was originally released on iOS 2.
We decided that it made more sense for development and our customers user experience to start a complete rewrite of iSpeak 3.0, with a brand new design. We have been hard at work since November and would finally like to show you a sneak peak at what we have been working on.
We hope you guys enjoy whats coming for iSpeak 3.0, and truly appreciated all our loyal customers patience during this time as we wrap up development!
(and yes the Speak it! Store will be back online for iSpeak 3.0 with even more language support AND new fun voices!)
Check out a sneak peak of our current alpha builds!
Future Apps is happy to announce the release of iSpeak Translator 1.1 for the Mac App Store. Version 1.1 finally brings the addition of all the languages we support for the iOS apps to the Mac! The app includes five pre-installed languages (English, French, German, and Italian), and you can download the twelve additional languages through our new Language Download section within the app. Users can pick and download which languages they need, without wasting hard drive space with extra languages they don’t need!
The extra languages are free of charge, you simply press the download button and your good to go! When you install the additional languages you get the same high quality HD voices you have known to love for each language. iSpeak Translator for the Mac is now and incredible bargain. You get all 16 languages, which are available separately on the iOS app store, for one incredible low price.
The update is available immediately on the Mac App store, or you can purchase the app for $4.99. Go download or update iSpeak Translator for the Mac today, and see why our iSpeak series of translators are the best translation solution on the iOS and Mac App Stores!
The 12 additional languages supported are: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, Greek, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish
We have redesigned our website with a new sleek modern interface, which better portrays who we are as a company. We hope you enjoy the new look, and all the information about our apps and company we provide. Feel free to leave us comments with our new commenting, Facebook integration, and support services.
We are also pleased to announce the release of iSpeak 3.0. This major update to our translator line provides updated voice engine and voices for the powerful text to speech included with the apps, graphic/UI updates for all devices, full support for iOS 5&6 as well as support for the new 4 inch screen on the iPhone 5 and iPod Touch, and much more! The update is available immediately on the App Store, so download it today and see why our iSpeak Translators are still the most popular translating solution on the App Store!
Our Speak it! users will also be excited to hear we are working on the long anticipated Speak it! 3.0 update in the coming year. The update is jam packed with new features, and most of them are features you have been emailing us and waiting for the past year. We want to thank all our users for being patient with us, you will not be disappointed!
Get ready for a lot more exciting announcements and new products in the next year from Future Apps!
Check out our newly updated iSpeak Translators below
Future Apps Applications team is looking for a proactive and hardworking software engineer to lead Future Apps into the Andriod Platform with current and future applications.
As Future App’s Andriod Project manager, your responsibilities will range from porting current projects to the Andriod Platform, leading and managing the Andriod Team at Future Apps, and creating new Projects for the Andriod Platform. You’ll also be responsible for debugging and delivering the best possible application performance.
Key Requirements:
* BS CS/CE or equivalent
* Strong programming skills, preferably with Java, C, Objective-C, and/or C++
* Excellent communication and collaborative skills
* Excitement and passion to work on amazing products
* Deep understanding of performance assessment and optimization
* Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced development team
Preferred skills:
*Ability to lead projects, while multitasking and working hands on those projects
* 2+ years of Java and/or Andriod OS programming experience
Future Apps Applications team is looking for a proactive and hardworking software engineer to contribute to current and future applications.
As an engineer on the iOS development team, your responsibilities will range from helping to define new features, to implementing high-level user interfaces, to designing private frameworks for use across the suite. You’ll also be responsible for debugging and delivering the best possible application performance.
Key Requirements:
* BS CS/CE or equivalent
* Strong programming skills, preferably with C, Objective-C, and/or C++
* Excellent communication and collaborative skills
* Excitement and passion to work on amazing products
* Deep understanding of performance assessment and optimization
* Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced development team
Preferred skills:
* 2+ years of Mac OS X and/or iPhone OS programming experience
Future Apps will be deeply discounting many of our apps to just one dollar on Cyber Monday! The discounts will start at 12am EST and continue all day monday, so if you have been looking to grab a copy of one of our wonderful apps tomorrow is the day to do it! Most apps will be 50%-75% off.
Please check out the iTunes links on our home page after 12AM on monday to find out which apps will be discounted, or search for Future Apps on the App Store!
We are proud to announce the release of our second Mac OS application, iSpeak Translator. The Mac version of the iSpeak iOS apps is a ground up remake, taking advantage of all the Mac Platform has to offer. What has remained the same is the industry leading text to speech, which has made the iOS apps so popular.
iSpeak Translator for the Mac is not just a mere text translator, but uses the highest quality text to speech syntheses available to speak the translated phrase back to you in the target language. Our text to speech is so powerful, it reproduces speech which is clear, and has a perfect accent in the target language. You will have a hard time telling the speech is coming from a computer!
The iSpeak apps have been the number one selling translations solution for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad platform, and Future Apps is taking it a step further for the Mac. Instead of offering separate apps for individual language pairs, all languages are being combined into one application for an unbelievable price! iSpeak Translator for the Mac includes five languages for the initial release: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The application will be updated with many more languages in the very near future at no additional cost.
“We are very excited to make the move to the Mac OS Platform with one of our best selling iOS apps,” says Future Apps founder and CEO John Stefanopoulos. “The Mac App store is poised to create the same type of success for developers and customers alike that the App Store did for the iPhone in 2008, and we are happy to be part of it once again.”
iSpeak Translator for the Mac is available immediately for download on the Mac App store for an introductory price of just $4.99*. Stay tuned for even more exciting Mac OS applications from Future Apps in the coming year!
Future Apps announces entry into the Mac Platform with its Speak it! Text to Speech App. Speak it! is part of the only 1,000 apps to make the Mac App Store launch, and is now available for download.
Speak it! has been the best selling and highest reviewed text to speech app on the iOS platform, and we have taken the best features and molded them into a ground up remake for the Mac platform. Speak it! for the Mac uses the same industry leading voices that have made it such a great hit on iOS, which reproduce speech that is so clear and natural sounding you will have a hard time telling it is a computer speaking! You can use Speak it! for anything from a speech assistive app for people with vocal disabilities, to a personal document reader. Speak it! can read any sort of text you can select and copy from any other application including emails, word documents, and web articles.
“We are very excited to make the move to the Mac OS Platform with one of our best selling iOS apps,” says Future Apps founder and CEO John Stefanopoulos. “The Mac App store is poised to create the same type of success for developers and customers alike that the App Store did for the iPhone in 2008, and we are happy to be part of it once again.”
Speak it! for the Mac is available immediately for download on the Mac App store for an introductory price of just $4.99. Click the link below and download it today!*
*Mac App store requires a Mac with Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6.
After three years as a development leader on the iOS platform, producing hits such as the iSpeak line of translators and Speak it! Text to Speech apps, Future Apps is excited to announce it has begun development for the Mac OS X platform.
We will be bringing our experience and best elements of what have made our iOS Apps great, and combining them with the additional opportunities the Mac platform has to offer in creating the best Mac OS X applications for our customers.
We are happy to announce that the first application that will make its debut on the January 6th Mac App Store launch is Speak it! Text to Speech. Now every Mac users can experience the highest quality text to speech voices available anywhere on their Mac. We have some exciting new features just for the Mac version as well!
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for further announcements.
