Pronexus Inc. and Aculab join to deliver text-to-speech and advanced fax capabilities to telephony application developers worldwide.

Compelling offer for speech developers - Access to text-to-speech and reduced cost fax capabilities from industry-leading toolkit.

Ottawa & UK, March 3rd, 2003 - Pronexus Inc., the leading provider of computer telephony and speech software solutions, today announced that its rapid application development tool, VBVoice 5.0 will integrate support for Aculabs text-to-speech software and highly acclaimed Group 3 fax capabilities. Together, these capabilities open new opportunities for telephony developers and expand the already comprehensive feature coverage of VBVoice 5.0 on the Aculab Prosody and IP telephony platforms.

Text-to-speech capabilities, in particular, are an increasingly popular feature of telephony applications. They are being used where pre-recording of prompts is not practical due to the changing nature of information or the sheer size of information to be read. Many developers and end user organizations, however, have shied away from these capabilities due to generally high licensing costs of text-to-speech engines.

Against this backdrop, the support of Aculabs proven text-to-speech engine in the award-winning VBVoice 5.0 opens the speech market for more developers and provides a compelling competitive differentiator for end user organizations.

"Text-to-speech brings immense flexibility to the presentation of dynamic information, and improvements in quality over the last couple of years make it an essential tool for voice application developers," commented Dan Hawkins, Lead Consultant at Datamonitor. Deals like this one make it even more compelling and widely available."

The fully integrated support for Aculabs text-to-speech with a cost-free licence and expanded fax capabilities in VBVoice 5.0 removes the barrier to entry into promising markets for many end users, partners and developers," commented Gary T. Hannah, President and CEO of Pronexus. If you are looking to enter the speech market or to expand into the fax business, this announcement lets you do so at a fraction of the previous costs without sacrificing features or quality."

Aculabs host based text-to-speech V3.0 is a fully scalable, fast and accurate speech synthesis system that supports multiple languages and voices on the Aculab Prosody DSP resource card. Similarly, Group 3 fax capability is based on Prosody and does not require a dedicated fax card. Together, they offer unmatched value to the developer and when combined with Aculabs complete range of speech functionality are the most cost effective offering in the market place today.

Chris Gravett, Aculabs sales and marketing director said, The result of this most recent integration of Prosody functionality with VBVoice 5.0 is an application tool that is even more attractive to developers of telephony and speech applications offering shorter timescales for solution development"

About VBVoice
VBVoice is the most comprehensive and flexible development environment for business critical Computer Telephony and Speech solutions. First introduced in 1994, it is the foundation of some of the most dependable, sophisticated and robust CT solutions at thousands of sites around the world. VBVoice 5.0 leverages the power of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, arguably the world's most modern and feature-rich development environment and allows developers to rapidly create scalable and extensible communications solutions for a wide variety of applications.

About Aculab

Through a customer-focused approach to development, Aculab has produced a computer telephony (CT) product portfolio that satisfies the speech resource and global digital connectivity requirements of developers and system integrators. CT applications utilising Aculabs components can handle real-time telephony, through an extensive range of resources and signalling systems.

The evolution of Aculabs generic API, to provide a consistent programming interface, reduces the integration time of a combination of technologies including text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), conferencing and fax. Collectively through supporting a broad range of industry standards and operating systems, Aculab can provide the products needed when quality and performance cannot be compromised.

Aculabs head office is located in Milton Keynes, UK with offices in the USA, Germany and Australia. Website: www.aculab.com

About Pronexus

With nearly a decade of experience and more than 3000 clients and partners around the world, Pronexus Inc. has established itself as a leader in Computer Telephony Integration for wired and wireless environments. The company is the developer of the award-winning VBVoice, a Rapid Application Development tool for building business-critical CT and speech solutions. It also provides professional services for businesses requiring custom applications and develops OnCallä, a line of turnkey CT business solutions. Comprehensive support services and acclaimed training complete the firms offerings.

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For more information contact:
Chris Biber
Pronexus Inc.
613-271 8989 xt.544
chris.biber@pronexus.com