iSpeech is a startup providing free text-to-speech (TTS) and speech recognition software, enabling users to convert text to natural sounding voice recognition online. In recent news, the company launched its all-new publisher platform last week, which boasts tools designed to help publishers quickly and cost-efficiently convert books and articles into audio.

For this relatively new company, having two huge names in the industry –Evernote (News - Alert) and Pearson – as your first customers is accomplishing quite a feat; however, that was before Evernote rocked the Web with a security breach that is being called an “epic fail” by many.

“The natural evolution of this is to potentially bring this functionality into all of Evernote’s products,” iSpeech COO Yaron Oren relayed to one report. “One of the things we hear directly from Evernote customers is they want to be able to listen to their Evernote notes in the car, so it would be great to have this kind of…functionality.”

Evernote will reportedly integrate iSpeech’s technology into Evernote Clearly, the company’s Web reading platform.

What’s interesting, though, is that since Evernote encountered a security breach, having been hacked in what is definitely not being considered a “minor” attack – the company sent out e-mails to all 50 million of its users asking that they change their passwords on the site – what does iSpeech think of the company utilizing its technology now?

I’m assuming not much, seeing how any startup is probably looking for all of the help and investments it can get, but it just got me thinking. Bad press and impressions – some have even gone so far to say that after the threat, Evernote is dead to them – can definitely rub off on the surrounding, or in this case, directly correlated, parties.

What do you think?