TORONTO, April 30, 2001 - VoiceGenie Technologies Inc., the leading provider
of VoiceXML Gateway solutions, and Audium Corporation, the leading developer
of VoiceXML applications and server software, today announced they have
entered into a marketing partnership agreement, providing customers with
complete VoiceXML mobile and enterprise-ready solutions.
Through the partnership of VoiceGenie and Audium, customers will have access
to comprehensive Voice Web solutions, from mobile productivity applications
based on VoiceXML, to carrier-grade, large-scale service and deployment of
complete VoiceXML Gateway solutions. Audium's applications have been
developed and trialled on the VoiceGenie Gateway, ensuring a ready-to-deploy
product offering.
"We are pleased to formalize our strategic partnership with Audium, and are
excited about the innovative applications Audium is deploying through the
VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway," said Stuart Berkowitz, President & CEO at
VoiceGenie. "The quality and rapid development of Audium's enterprise-ready
VoiceXML applications will help to drive the Voice Web market. The
combination of Audium's mobile applications and VoiceGenie's VoiceXML
Gateway technology is a compelling proposition for enterprise users,
delivering the value of VoiceXML directly into the hands of users
everywhere."
VoiceGenie's VoiceXML Gateway provides a robust and flexible foundation for
standards-based speech-driven applications, while offering an open, vendor
agnostic environment by supporting the latest model ASRs and TTSs, including
those from SpeechWorks and Nuance. With VoiceGenie, a company's customers
may access Web information, conduct on-line transactions, and manage
personal communications (such as e-mail and voice-activated dialing) by
simply speaking into any phone.
The Audium Voice Application Server (VAS) features pre-built components that
accelerate the development of carrier grade voice applications in the
enterprise setting. The server allows Audium to build applications that
support personalization, dynamically generated VoiceXML sessions, multiple
languages, private labeling, outbound notification and calling campaigns,
and distribution to multiple end customers.
"By ensuring that our Voice Web applications run smoothly on VoiceGenie's
VoiceXML Gateway, we are able to deliver a complete solution to customers
that is 100% compliant to the VoiceXML standard," said Michael Bergelson,
President & CEO at Audium. "Audium is clearly focused on leading-edge voice
application development, and partnering with industry leaders like
VoiceGenie allows us to deliver end-to-end solutions to our clients.
Together, VoiceGenie and Audium are able to provide complete voice-based
mobile solutions that meet the needs of enterprises and businesses ready to
take their Voice Web strategies to the next level."
Audium develops VoiceXML server and application software that voice-enables
mission critical applications for many types of businesses. The Company's
proprietary, standards-based Voice Application Server provides a common set
of components to quickly develop telco-grade voice applications at greatly
reduced costs, bringing Web-based technologies and economies of scale to the
voice world. For more information on Audium, please visit www.audiumcorp.com
or call (212) 609-4000.
With six years of extensive market development expertise, VoiceGenie is the
first company to ship a fully compliant VoiceXML Gateway product supporting
multiple speech and text-to-speech engines, offering vendor-agnostic,
best-of-breed combinations. The VoiceGenie Gateway allows any phone to
access Voice Web applications developed using the VoiceXML standard.
VoiceGenie customers and partners include AT&T, Lucent, Dialogic, an Intel
Company, SpeechWorks, Everypath, Audium, Brience, VoxSurf, Nuance, and more.
VoiceGenie has established an early leadership position in the new Voice Web
market. Industry analysts predict that the market for voice-enabling
services will grow to $41 billion by 2005. For more information, please call
416.736.0905 or visit www.voicegenie.com.
VoiceGenie's complete Voice Web solution enables a company's customers or
employees to access Web information, conduct on-line transactions, and
manage personal communications, including e-mail and voice-activated
dialing, by simply using their voice over any phone.
As leading experts in VoiceXML, VoiceGenie's Professional Services group
conducts courses and seminars, designed to help users exploit the richness
of VoiceXML. VoiceGenie's Developers Workshop - with over 2,300 regular
users-provides programmers with software development tools and access to a
development node to test and host their VoiceXML applications. VoiceGenie
offers free membership in its Developers' Workshop. Please visit
http://developer.voicegenie.com.
