Libysn to be Acquired by Wizzard Software

In an interesting bit of news, a press release has been put out announcing that Libsyn (a pioneer in podcast hosting) will be acquired by Wizzard Software (who specialize in speech software). This doesn’t strike me as the most obvious of match ups, but it sounds like they have some things planned. From the press release:  The acquisition combines the world’s largest and fastest growing podcast network with Wizzard’s expertise in speech technology integration, creating a powerful new service for podcasters worldwide. "A powerful new service"…what exactly this is we’ll have to wait and see. Some further insight can be gleaned from this passage: The combined companies will focus on providing independent content creators with comprehensive search engine indexing, transcription and blogging integration and new tools so that they may better attract advertisers and sponsors allowing them to reach highly-targeted audiences with mo...