LOCUSDIALOG WIDENS ITS EUROPEAN MARKET REACH WITH SPIE COMMUNICATIONS DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

LocusDialog today announces an agreement with SPIE Communications to market and distribute its speech telephony solutions (LocusDialogSTS) in Europe. LocusDialog designs and creates multi-lingual speech-enabled call-routing solutions for small, medium and large organizations in a broad range of vertical markets.

Montreal, Canada.....LocusDialog today announces an agreement with SPIE Communications to market and distribute its speech telephony solutions (LocusDialogSTS) in Europe. LocusDialog designs and creates multi-lingual speech-enabled call-routing solutions for small, medium and large organizations in a broad range of vertical markets.

Under the agreement, SPIE Communications will now offer enterprises and contact centers of all sizes the speech-enabled call routing applications and personal assistance capabilities integral to LocusDialogSTS systems. SPIE Communications' clients can henceforth realize the many benefits of LocusDialogSTS speech telephony systems, notably direct cost savings, rapid ROI and enhanced caller satisfaction.

The agreement will enable LocusDialog to accelerate its market penetration in France as well as increase its already enviable market share of installed speech telephony systems. LocusDialog's current installed base of more than 600 speech-enabled systems operating worldwide is unequalled in the speech telephony industry.

"We are very happy to have this leading French industry player join our partner ranks," LocusDialog vice president, international business development Alain Desjardins emphasizes. "SPIE Communications is a major integrator of network and telephony products and services in many sectors in which we are also active. Offering the LocusDialogSTS suite of products through SPIE Communications represents an unequivocal consolidation of our company's leading position in the global enterprise speech telephony marketplace."

"We are greatly pleased that our company is now associated with LocusDialog," declares Sébastien Amiotte, marketing director for voice offerings at SPIE Communications. "The speech recognition applications developed by LocusDialog are in perfect synergy with the network and telephony solutions we offer our clients. We're convinced that many of our clients will derive enormous advantages from acquiring these state-of-the-art speech applications."

About LocusDialog...

LocusDialog designs and creates multi-lingual speech-enabled call-routing solutions for small, medium and large organizations in a broad range of vertical markets. The company maintains its market status with products that add speech recognition functionality to existing telephony infrastructures, thereby facilitating rapid, easy access to people, places and information resources from any telephone device, anywhere, and at anytime.

LocusDialog's speech-powered systems incorporate the most innovative speech technologies available today. They are delivered to the marketplace through an established network of renowned national and international telecom distributors/partners, including SBC, NextiraOne, Bell Canada, Telus, and NEC Canada in North America, and the Mettoni Group, EADS Telecom, COGIS Industries and now SPIE Communications in Europe.

About SPIE Communications...

SPIE Communications, a subsidiary of the SPIE S.A. Group, is the leading integrator of telecommunications solutions in France. With 1400 employees serving more than 40,000 clients, SPIE Communications' goal is to provide clients with unified, comprehensive solutions applicable throughout the investment life cycle, from conception to delegated network management.

Deriving its solutions especially from strategic alliances with, among others, EADS Telecom, Nortel Networks, GE Capital, and now LocusDialog, SPIE Communications offers its clients a complete range of high performance telecommunications equipment. And ISO 9001 certification underscores the company's commitment to delivering the highest quality of service.

LocusDialog is located at 460 St. Catherine Street West, Suite 730
Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3B 1A7.
Phone: 1 888 GO-LOCUS. Fax: 514-954-3805.
URL: http://www.locusdialog.com

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Contact Information:

LocusDialog
Stephane Couture
888/465-6287
stephane.couture@locusdialog.com

KPR, Inc.
Barbara Evans or David Kaye
818/368-8212
barbara@kprinc.com or dave@kprinc.com

SPIE Communications
Sébastien Amiotte
Marketing Director, Voice Offerings
(0) 1 41 46 42 03
sebastien amiotte@spie.com