Message Technologies, Inc. Announces Strategic Partnership with ifbyphone, llc.

Message Technologies, Inc.®, an industry-leading provider of speech IVR hosting, services, and solutions, today announced their new strategic partnership with ifbyphone, llc.

Atlanta (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -- Message Technologies, Inc.® (www.messagetech.com) an industry-leading provider of speech IVR hosting, services, and solutions, today announced their new strategic partnership with ifbyphone, llc (ifbyphone.com). As a result of this agreement, MTI® will provide speech IVR hosting services to ifbyphone, a new media company focused on the distribution of recorded and text based information and family friendly entertainment via voice.

ifbyphone, a recipient of funding from Cogitations, Inc., delivers access to a variety of information using the latest speech technologies. ifbyphone will be rolling out a number of applications hosted on MTI premises over the course of the next year that will integrate voice recognition, text-to-speech and VoiceXML capabilities. The ifbyphone applications enable users to virtually navigate through a large amount of information by using their cell phone, home phone, or business phone, without having to use a keypad or browse the web using a small cell phone screen. ifbyphone allows voice-enabled interaction with a number of applications to access the latest news, listen to email, search thousands of RSS feeds, access hundreds of blogs, play fun games such as Texas Hold 'em Poker, multiple player trivia, and enjoy Interactive Fiction for the first time by voice.

These applications will allow end-users greater functionality by allowing easier accessibility to information than traditional web-based browsing methods. ifbyphone also is planning on deploying several other applications, including a notification service for schools and non-profit organizations, within the next twelve months on their voice distribution platform.

Message Technologies, Inc. will host ifbyphones application in a scalable and fully redundant VoiceXML hosting environment. MTI will also furnish ifbyphone with telephony services, including a beta staging and testing platform before live deployment of the application. The beta test version of Ifbyphones application will be rolled out in July and the application will go into final production in the fall. MTI will offer back-end IVR and VXML application programming support, and 24/7 diagnostic and technical services.

In todays rapidly moving world of technology, time-to-market is paramount. By partnering with MTI we have been able to produce a carrier grade application in only six months. In fact, ifbyphone is an excellent example of a virtual company. While our home office is in a Chicago suburb, most of our developers are in Israel, and our staff and vendors are spread across America," said ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro.

MTI offers ifbyphone longstanding experience in speech technology and a thorough understanding of IVR application development and hosting," commented Darrell Knight, President of Message Technologies, The combination of MTIs
customized hosting solutions coupled with ifbyphones applications will bring end-users direct control and access to information using an innovative approach to speech technology."

About Message Technologies, Inc.:

Message Technologies, Inc. (MTI) is an industry leader in providing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and speech technologies. Its mission is to deliver innovative and affordable interactive voice solutions with maximum customer satisfaction. With over 2000 customers throughout North America and Canada, MTI specializes in speech IVR outsourcing services, including VoiceXML and SALT hosting. MTI also provides senior telephony and speech professional services for the design, development, deployment and ongoing testing of speech-enabled applications. It handles every part of the speech application infrastructure including trunk and platform provisioning, business continuation planning, monitoring, web access, physical and logical security and co-location, and live agent services. For more information about MTI, please visit its website at www.messagetech.com.

About ifbyphone:

Ifbyphonea new media company focused on the distribution of recorded and text based information and family friendly entertainment via voice. The customizable features of the ifbyphone voice-based service are available directly to individual consumers and to corporations.

This first release of ifbyphone provides web-like access from your telephone without needing to touch the keypad or straining to read a tiny screen. By integrating the sophisticated voice recognition and state of the art text to speech technologies, ifbyphone empowers your cell phone, home phone, or business phone to be a superior voice communications device.

Funding for ifbyphone.com is provided by Cogitations, Inc., a software technology incubator headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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