Future Apps (http://www.future-apps.net), an iOS development company has released the iSpeak Translator for the Mac. It’s available at an introductory price of US$4.99 at the Mac App Store and requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 and higher.

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, according to Future Apps founder and CEO John Stefanopoulos. Instead of offering separate apps for individual language pairs, all languages are being combined into one application.

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, according to Stefanopoulos.