Unisys and Telisma Announce Global Alliance to Provide Voice Recognition Applications to Telecom Companies

Business Wire, April 9, 2002

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

BLUE BELL, Pa. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002

Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) and Telisma, a major European provider of voice recognition technologies, today announced a worldwide alliance to deliver and promote further development of vocal access to value-added services for telecommunications companies.

The Unisys Multimedia Messaging System platform uses the Telisma speech technologies to provide users access to messages via both voice recognition and digital interfaces. By combining their technologies, Unisys and Telisma can open new markets for telephone companies by providing high value-added mass services with unprecedented reliability and flexibility to upgrade.

"This alliance is based on a shared belief that voice will be the preferred interface for future mobile telephone services, and offers a degree of excellence in terms of commercial solutions which we found to be very attractive," said Loic Gonnet, Telisma International Director. "In addition, this working relationship with a global leader in telecommunications messaging systems represents an incredible opportunity to increase our growth in our core market: fixed line and mobile operators. After all, nine out of the world's ten largest operators have chosen to work with Unisys."

"Unisys sees significant value in including the Telisma voice recognition technologies in our European voice services offering," stated Robert Le Duigou, global vice president and general manager, Value Added Services. "Its leadership and technological ability to handle the massive deployment needs of telecommunications operators will allow us to control the costs of our solutions."

The Unisys-Telisma solution has already been chosen by a leading telecommunications company for the deployment of a critical global voice portal application using speech recognition and based on a Personal Information Management (PIM) offering. It offers 4,000 simultaneous sessions servicing 32,000 ports, available to more than one million users.

Other joint projects are in progress including voice portal services, automation of call centers, automation of directory functions, voice-controlled messaging system and automatic dialing of numbers by saying a person's name.

As part of the close collaboration of the two partners, Unisys European R&D center in Paris has created a demonstration where the performance and simplicity of this application can be illustrated on a 24x7 basis, in all of the languages offered by the Telisma solution.

About Telisma

Established in August 2000, Telisma designs, develops and sells speech recognition and synthesis software for telecommunications applications. Telisma employs innovative speech recognition technology which is the result of more than 15 years of research carried out by France Telecom R&D.

With its products and consulting branch, Telisma allows telecommunications operators and the suppliers of telephone services to easily deploy large-scale services for companies and the general public, using speech recognition and synthesis. A private company, Telisma is financed by major European investors: 3i, Innovacom and AGF Private Equity.

For more information about Telisma, please visit http://www.telisma.com.

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company whose 39,000 people help clients in more than 100 countries utilize technology to seize opportunities, overcome challenges and succeed in the global economy.

The company offers a rich portfolio of business solutions led by its expertise in consulting and systems integration, outsourcing, network services and security, coupled with leading enterprise-class server and related technologies.

Primary vertical markets for Unisys worldwide are the financial services, transportation, communications, media, commercial and public sectors, including U.S. federal government customers. Unisys is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area. For more information on the company, access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web at www.unisys.com.

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