AMERITECH AND BELLSOUTH DEPLOY VOICE CONTROL SYSTEMS' CELLULAR SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY; Voice Activated Dialing Capabilities Make Cellular Phones Safer, Easier to Use While Driving

Business Wire, April 16, 1996

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1996--Voice Control Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VCSI) today announced that its speech recognition technology implemented by Brite Voice Systems in Brite's VoiceSelect(TM) platform has been deployed by Ameritech Cellular Services and BellSouth Cellular Corp. These cellular service providers are using VCS's speech recognition to provide hands-free voice dialing services in their wireless networks. The VCS technology is integrated within the cellular network by Brite Voice Systems through Brite's VoiceSelect platform.

BellSouth markets the voice dialing service under the name "PowerDial" in Richmond, Va. and Miami, West Palm Beach, and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. -- and as "VoiceTouch" in Houston, Texas. Ameritech has introduced VoiceSelect in St. Louis, Mo. and several cities in the Ohio valley, including Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio. Ameritech already offers the service in Chicago, Ill.; Detroit, Mich,; and Madison and Milwaukee, Wis. Voice activated dialing services based upon VCS technology are now available to all Ameritech cellular subscribers nationwide.

VCS technology enables cellular users to dial calls using voice commands. Users simply say a name from their personal directory or speak the digits of a phone number to connect their calls. In addition, voice dialing enables users to access their voicemail services through speech input, an otherwise difficult proposition while driving. VCS's highly accurate, noise tolerant speech recognition technology is based on the company's unique phonetic approach. VCS technology provides both speaker- independent and speaker-dependent speech recognition and understands discrete and continuous spoken input.

"The need for VCS's speech recognition technology was recently illustrated by a Rochester Institute of Technology study which found a disturbing correlation between cellular phone use and car accidents," said Peter J. Foster, president of Voice Control Systems. "We are pleased to provide Ameritech and BellSouth customers, through Brite Voice Systems, with the safety and convenience offered by VCS's speech recognition technology."

According to David Hemmings, executive vice president of Brite Voice Systems, "The industry-leading combination of VCS's speech recognition technology and Brite's VoiceSelect platform has garnered 95 percent marketshare in the wireless voice-dialing industry worldwide. Thanks to the accuracy and flexibility of VCS's technology, VoiceSelect was the world's first wireless voice dialing system and remains the industry benchmark today."

Founded in 1978, Dallas-based Voice Control Systems is a leading global supplier of speech recognition and speaker verification technology. Distributors and systems integrators of the company's technology include Dialogic Corporation, InterVoice, Brite Voice Systems, Periphonics, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, OKI Telecom and OKI Semiconductor. VCS serves worldwide markets in telecommunications, consumer electronics, desktop computing, cellular/automotive and computer telephony with over 300,000 speech recognizers and 45 languages in use worldwide. The company provides speaker-independent, speaker-dependent, discrete and continuous speech recognition, as well as speaker verification. Its enhanced technologies include phonetic dictionary, word spotting, Cut-Thru(TM) and alphabet recognition. VCS's stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol VCSI.

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