Vialto Joins Microsoft Speech Partner Program to Bring Multimodal Speech Solutions to the Mobile Workforce

Vialto to make E2Go available to customers using the Microsoft Speech Server. E2Go, Vialtos flagship product, enables mobile professionals to voice-dial their Microsoft Exchange contacts and access email and calendar from any phone.

Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) July 10, 2003 -- Vialto Corporation, a leading provider of voice-driven multimodal applications for the mobile workforce, today announced that it is working with Microsoft Corp. to drive the availability of voice-enabled access to enterprise information. E2Go, Vialtos flagship product, enables mobile professionals to voice-dial their Microsoft Exchange contacts and access email and calendar from any phone. As part of the Microsoft Speech Partner Program, Vialto intends to make E2Go available for the Microsoft Speech Server. Microsoft and Vialto will engage in business and marketing opportunities as part of the Microsoft Speech Partner Program, which is designed to provide increased revenue and profit opportunities for Microsoft industry partners interested in developing, deploying and reselling speech technology solutions.

Vialto E2Go is a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution for mobile enterprise users. Instead of relying on specialized devices to access enterprise information, mobile professionals can, from any phone, use the intuitive voice commands in E2Go to manage their email and calendar, and look up or voice-dial their contacts. They can also use commands such as 'send it to John Smith to forward the looked-up information to mobile devices or email accounts should viewing of the information be required.

"Vialto shares our vision for making speech a mainstream and pervasive technology, and we are very proud to welcome them into the Microsoft Speech Partner Program," said James Mastan, director of marketing for the Speech Technologies team at Microsoft. "It is because of companies such as Vialto that we are able to extend the delivery of the Microsoft Speech Server, enabling enterprises to deploy sophisticated speech-enabled solutions and applications that deliver significant business value."

As an increasing number of enterprises look to voice for enterprise-wide mobile access, the availability of a reliable and easy-to-implement solution becomes critical," said Ramneek Bhasin, CEO and co-founder, Vialto. Vialto E2Go represents a powerful and elegant application for instantaneous enterprise-wide mobile access to Exchange."

Vialto E2Go is available for Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 now. It is also tailored to effectively take advantage of new elements in Exchange 2003 such as Active Directory integration, XML-enabled OWA server, as well as user and security management tools.

About Vialto

Vialto is redefining business communications by providing compelling voice-driven multimodal business productivity applications for mobile professionals. Vialtos applications exploit emerging and existing messaging, telecommunications and network infrastructures, coupled with todays handsets to deliver two-way interactive multimodal access to corporate and personal information. While Vialto fully leverages developments such as packet data, voice over packet and 3G, ubiquity is achieved through a complete, secure, high-performance and rich interaction by voice, SMS, MMS and WML over existing 2.5G and 2G wireless networks and handsets. Vialtos highly configurable software is architected for wireless service providers and enterprises with all the capabilities to serve large-scale deployments in a reliable, scalable and manageable fashion, with the lowest total cost of ownership. Vialtos solution is distributed as a software license on an OEM basis or for network deployment and can be branded to suit the needs of enterprises, platform and solution providers and wireless operators. Visit www.vialto.com or call 408-725-7222.

Vialto and E2Go are trademarks of Vialto Corporation. Other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact: Ramneek Bhasin, ramneek@vialto.com; (408) 725-7222