Philips and One Voice Technologies Form Global Strategic Alliance - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, April 3, 2000

One Voice Technologies Inc., "One Voice," (OTCBB:ONEV) a worldwide market leader in human interface technologies for PCs, wireless devices and the Internet, and Philips Speech Processing, a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics and one of the global market leaders in speech recognition, natural dialogue and language understanding technologies, Tuesday announced a global strategic alliance.

Under the agreement the two companies will work together on customization, integration and joint customer projects as well as the global licensing and co-marketing of advanced speech-enabled applications. The alliance is based on a common vision of creating next generation speech-based interfaces, which brings new levels of usability to the millions of worldwide electronic device users.

One Voice's soon-to-be released product family called IVAN -- Intelligent Voice Animated Navigator will incorporate Philips' acclaimed speech recognition technology in 16 different languages for PC, wireless and consumer electronic devices worldwide.

To date, speech recognition software has been used primarily in corporate and heavy dictation-oriented environments for command-and-control and word processing applications. However, today's alliance broadens the scope of possible speech enabled applications. One Voice's revolutionary technology called IVIT ("Intelligent Voice Interactive Technology") is the only human interface technology engine based on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Natural Language Processing. IVIT understands advanced linguistic concepts such as topic, subject and synonym. As a result people can speak naturally to their computers as if they were speaking to a friend to easily search for and find information using the worlds most advanced human interface technology.

Now by using One Voice's IVAN, consumers can for the first time speak their thoughts to browse and search the Internet all through true natural-language dialogue and interaction. One Voice's IVAN, utilizing Philips' natural speech recognition technology, will soon be available in U.S. English as well as all major European and Asian languages. Philips' Speech SDK speech recognition software development kit will allow One Voice Technologies to seamlessly integrate state of the art, multi-lingual speech recognition into IVAN and other applications.

"One Voice is thrilled to work with a global organization such as Philips," commented Dean Weber, chairman and chief executive officer of One Voice Technologies. "There is tremendous synergy between both Philips' and our visions in bringing about the future of interactive consumer electronic devices. By adding advanced human interface technologies to consumer electronic devices, we will open the doors of usability to everyone worldwide."

"Natural speech and dialogue capabilities represent the ideal user interface to easily access content specific information from the Internet, be it from PC platforms or any other consumer electronics device," said Cesar Vohringer, president and CEO of Philips Speech Processing. "Our relationship with One Voice Technologies, a dynamic and innovative technology force in human interface design, will allow consumers for the first time to naturally talk, when browsing and searching the Internet."

One Voice Technologies (OTCBB:ONEV) a worldwide market leader in developing scalable human interface technologies is changing the way people interact with PCs, the Internet and wireless devices. One Voice's flagship technology engine, called IVIT ("Intelligent Voice Interactive Technology"), allows the millions of worldwide consumer users to talk, as if they were speaking with another person, to instantaneously access and interact with content on the World Wide Web. The company is headquartered in San Diego. For more information, visit http://www.onevoicetech.com or call Reba Rosenbluth at 858/552-4466.

Philips Speech Processing has more than 40 years experience in the development and marketing of speech products and is a pioneer and global leader in speech recognition, natural dialogue and language understanding technologies. Philips offers a broad portfolio of speech technology solutions to the telecommunications, IT, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Applications range from call center services automation to professional dictation solutions, from voice controlled devices to the Internet. Internet: www.speech.philips.com

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 31.5 billion in 1999. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, electric shavers, color picture tubes for televisions and monitors, and one-chip TV products. Its 226,900 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semiconductors, medical systems, business electronics, and IT services (Origin). Philips is quoted on the NYSE (symbol:PHG), London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. Internet: www.news.philips.com