VoiceGenie.com Announces Agreement with Lucent Technologies to Bring VoiceXML Solutions to the $26 Billion Voice Portal Market - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, March 13, 2000

VoiceGenie.Com, and Lucent Speech Solutions are pleased to announce a multi-year agreement to bring voice portal solutions, based on VoiceXML, to the Internet and telephony service provider market.

Voice portals provide personalized, voice-activated access to web-based information previously only available with a web browser. Under the terms of the agreement, VoiceGenie.Com and Lucent will work together to build and deploy leading-edge applications that bring web-based information and services to any phone. Web-enabled voice portal applications include voice activated dialing, voice-enabled websites, unified messaging, transaction services, personal assistant and auto attendant applications.

VoiceXML applications interpret web content and, using text to speech synthesis, can speak the results out over any telephone. The applications can also listen, using speech recognition, and carry out instructions based on a user's spoken requests. VoiceGenie will develop software applications using Lucent's speech engines for wireless, wireline and Internet service providers based on this new technology.

VoiceGenie is a leading provider of web telephony solutions. Lucent Speech Solutions is a leading provider of highly reliable natural language speech solutions for large-scale service provider networks.

Stuart Berkowitz, President of VoiceGenie.Com said this agreement will help telephony and Internet service providers enter this new market. Mr. Berkowitz stated, "We are pleased to be working with Lucent, helping its customers take advantage of this voice portal infrastructure technology. VoiceXML permits all phones to access the web by simply using your voice. By working with Lucent, both companies will be able to deploy these VoiceXML solutions faster than would be otherwise possible. With four years of experience in this space, both Lucent and VoiceGenie.Com are well established as the technology and application leaders."

Dan Furman, President of Lucent Speech Solutions said, "Both Lucent's and VoiceGenie.Com's experience in this technology provides a strong foundation to help service providers deploy leading edge VoiceXML services for this fast growing market. After all, more people have phones than computers and it's much easier and faster to pick up the phone to get what you need than booting up and browsing."

VoiceGenie.Com is a new affiliate of VoiceGenie Systems Computing Inc. spun-out in January, 2000 to focus on the Voice Portal infrastructure and applications market using VoiceXML based technology. For more information on VoiceGenie.Com, please check our web site at http://www.voicegenie.com.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the company's web site at Lucent Speech Solutions at http://www.lucent.com/speech.>

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