Angel.com provides business to business speech solution for the travel and expense industry.

Angel.com, a speech recognition telephony provider announces how it recently partnered with another company to add voice recognition to two of their existing products. The results are 2 new products that can make travel reservations and record expenses for business travelers, over the phone without the need for a live operator. This is done completely with the caller's voice.

McLean, VA (PRWEB) August 25, 2003 --- Angel.com, the fastest-growing provider of turnkey speech solutions as a service, announces the launch of Outtasks voice-enabled travel and expense solutions, Cliqbook Voice and Vinnet Voice. Developed on Angel.coms flexible Voice Site platform, Outtask quickly built and deployed fully voice-enabled versions of their already successful travel and expense management software.

The new products are a boon for their users -- offering them anytime, anywhere" access. Filing expense reports, booking travel and obtaining personal itinerary information is now as easy as calling a 24-hour phone number. Callers are free to use all interactive functions by simply speaking responses instead of pressing keys. Travelers have the pleasure of doing business on their schedule while saving costs for their company. The system interacts with callers in a natural and greatly personalized manner making even such routine tasks fun and enjoyable.

Angel.coms versatile Voice Site platform offered Outtask the opportunity to realize significant cost-savings and drastically limit development resources and time. Using common standards like XML, Outtask utilized their existing industry expertise and systems engineering staff for programming -- letting Angel.com handle speech recognition and telephony. With complementary business models as service providers, Outtask and Angel.com offer travel agencies and enterprises a product that is both easy and economical to deploy - without the burden of hardware purchase or application support.

Angel.com is a unique player in the speech market" said Michael Zirngibl, president of Angel.com. By connecting Angel.coms Voice Site service with Outtasks existing software, we provided not only the technology, but a business solution that drastically reduced development time and costs. This helps Outtask maintain their competitive edge and gives them a key advantage by offering such a practical solution to their Fortune 500 clients."

Angel.com offered us more than the ability to add speech to Cliqbook and Vinnet" said Tom DePasquale, president and CEO of Outttask. Through connecting to their service based solution, we avoided the complexities of telephony and stayed focused on delivering a high quality experience, further driving down costs for our agency partners and customers."

This joint initiative is a great example of how Angel.com helps businesses innovate and take advantage of speech recognition without costly side-effects. Our versatile Voice Site platform and market approach is propelling Angel.com as the industry leader in business to business speech solutions" Zirngibl added.

About Angel.com

McLean, Va.-based Angel.com is the fastest-growing provider of turnkey speech solutions as a service. Angel.com leverages the web to allow corporations to quickly and cost-efficiently develop and launch high quality speech-enabled telephony applications. Sophisticated and customizable with the click of a mouse, Angel.com's patented Voice Sites connect businesses with customers in an intuitive and natural manner anywhere, anytime. Angel.com's hosted service enables companies to implement business-grade communications solutions for a fraction of the cost of unwieldy, proprietary interactive voice response systems. Angel.com gives companies the ability to build an infinite number of speech-enabled applications limited only by human creativity. More than 2,000 businesses have utilized Angel.com to deploy interactive customer service solutions that improve communication and reduce overhead costs.

For more information about Angel.com, please visit www.angel.com or contact Matt Tosiello at 703-714-1241(tosiello@angel.com)

About Outtask, Inc.

An innovator in web applications and services, Outtask, Inc. is a provider of Software as a Service", delivering employee-facing applications to companies in the areas of travel, expense and recruiting management. Customers around the globe leverage Outtask's expertise, market-leading solutions, data management, and professional services to achieve efficiencies, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive overall savings to an organizations bottom line. Customer and partner successes, technology innovation and acclaimed best practices have earned Outtask recognition as an industry leader.

For more information about Outtask, please visit www.outtask.com or contact Ross Atkinson at 703-837-6100 x4017 (ross.atkinson@outtask.com)

Outtask, Cliqbook, and Vinnet are registered trademarks of Outtask, Inc., in the United States. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.