AVST Arms Resellers with High-Impact Sales Training; AVST's CallXpress(R) Success Seminar Series Provides Strategic Sales Tools and Techniques for Unified Communications Solution Providers.

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. -- Continuing on its tradition of education and awareness for the unified communications marketplace, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies Inc. (AVST), today announced plans for a series of high-impact sales training seminars for its resellers. The CallXpress Success Seminars are offered to qualified AVST resellers and will take place throughout the months of April and May 2006 in nine cities across the United States.

AVST, a leading provider of unified communications solutions, designed the CallXpress Success Seminar to help resellers accelerate revenue growth by making their sales teams proficient in selling its products. Participants will learn valuable tips on how to prospect and qualify sales opportunities, improve and maintain customer satisfaction, increase the closing ratio, improve time efficiency, create more compelling product presentations, and negotiate the best deals.

"With CallXpress selling so well in the enterprise marketplace coupled with our newly expanded product offerings for small-to-medium businesses, it is an exciting time for our channel partners," said AVST's Vice President of Marketing Denny Michael. "Because of high market demand, AVST resellers have more opportunities to sell our best-of-breed unified communications solutions than ever before. By offering this seminar, we are doing our part to help each of our reseller partners maximize their sales potential."

CallXpress, AVST's flagship unified communications platform, delivers voice mail, call processing, fax, advanced unified messaging and speech-enabled capabilities that are designed for companies of all sizes. The solution allows employees to communicate and collaborate more productively and effectively because users can receive and respond to messages anywhere, anytime. That means customers aren't left waiting, mobile workers are accessible and urgent messages are available right away. CallXpress greatly increases service levels and also provides a consistent corporate interface to the customers.

Following is the schedule for the CallXpress Success Seminars:

--April 4 - Palo Alto, Calif.

--April 6 - Irvine, Calif.

--April 11 - Richardson, Texas 

--April 13 - Lisle, Ill.

--April 18 - Cleveland, Ohio

--April 20 - McLean, Va.

--April 25 - Teaneck, N.J.

--April 27 - Dedham, Mass.

--May 16 - Bellevue, Wash.

For more information contact an AVST sales representative at http://www.avst.com/contactus/requestinfo.asp.

About AVST

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of unified communications solutions for businesses of all sizes. Through its world-class unified communications platform, CallXpress(R), and its innovative speech applications module, Seneca(R), AVST offers the industry's most powerful suite of switch-independent unified communications solutions. AVST's solutions enable direct access to an enterprise's communications infrastructure including voice mail, e-mail and fax messaging from any voice or data device via a touch-tone, GUI or speech interface. Established in September 2003, AVST was formed from the combined businesses of Sound Advantage (established in 1997) and the AVT division (established in 1982) of Captaris Inc.

With headquarters in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices across the United States. With over 35,000 systems installed worldwide, AVST's unified communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, VP of marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's Web site at www.avst.com.