LumenVox and Digium Partner to Offer Speech-enabled Asterisk Open Source and Business Edition PBX's; Speech Recognition Technology Showcased at Spring VON in Asterisk Partner Pavilion

Business Wire, March 13, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- LumenVox, an innovator of speech recognition technology, announced today that Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk(TM), and pioneer of open source telephony, is currently integrating LumenVox's Speech Engine into their Open Source and Business Edition PBX's.

"Speech recognition enhances customer interactivity with an Asterisk PBX," said Mark Spencer, president of Digium and creator of Asterisk. "Additionally, the integration with the LumenVox Speech Engine enables the Asterisk development community to cost-effectively build and deploy speech solutions with performance characteristics to support even the most demanding speech requirements."

"One of our missions as a company is to work towards popularizing speech recognition," said Ed Miller, president of LumenVox, "and to provide world-class technology. The Asterisk community is innovative and adaptive and we are pleased to be a part of Digium's open source communications revolution."

The Speech Engine performs recognition on audio data from any audio source, and allows for dynamic language, grammar, audio format, and logging capabilities. LumenVox will be presenting their speech technology in the Asterisk Partner Pavilion, booth 809, at the Spring 2006 VON Conference & Expo, taking place March 14-17th at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Ca.

About Digium

Digium is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.

Digium provides quality hardware and software products that enable telephony applications including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and customer software development services.

About Asterisk

Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. It supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports US and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.

About LumenVox

LumenVox has developed a suite of speech recognition software, which includes the Speech Recognition Engine, Speech Platform, Speech Tuner, and Speech Driven Assistant. With this suite of software and worldwide technology partners, LumenVox can design, develop, deploy, maintain and host any speech application. LumenVox can be reached at (877) 977-0707 or at www.LumenVox.com.