Baypoint Innovations Brings Voice to Microsoft Exchange with Speak@Ease, a Natural Language Speech Recognition Interface.Business Editors ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000 Baypoint Innovations and Microsoft Demonstrate Exchanging VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet Mail) A method for encoding voice mail messages as data so they can travel via the SMTP mail protocol over IP networks. VPIM uses MIME to encode messages in multiple parts, which are decoded by VPIM-compliant voice mail systems at Voice Messages Between OnePoint Messenger and Exchange 2000 Baypoint Innovations, the advanced messaging unit of Mitel Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MLT (MultiLink Trunking) See port aggregation. ) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :MLT) (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :MLT.L), today showcased OnePoint Messenger(tm) with Speak@Ease(tm), a natural language speech recognition interface, at the Microsoft Tech-Ed 2000 conference. OnePoint Messenger, a true unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. (sm) product, works with Microsoft(r) Exchange(tm) 5.5 Server and the soon-to-be-released Exchange 2000(tm) server. The advanced technology showcase, called 'OnePoint Messenger Brings Voice To Microsoft Exchange', includes two demonstrations: Speak@Ease for the award-winning OnePoint Messenger; and VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet Mail) message interoperability with Microsoft Exchange 2000. From the Baypoint Innovations booth, conference goers can create voice messages using a standard telephone, or true unified messages using a telephone, PC or Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and send them to an Exchange 2000 server in the Microsoft booth. "Baypoint Innovations is leading the charge to develop Voice Profile for Internet Mail interoperability by providing the only VPIM-capable Exchange 5.5 unified messaging product on the market," said Mike Berlin, vice president and general manager, Baypoint Innovations. "We were also the first to successfully exchange live VPIM voice, fax and e-mail messages with Microsoft and their Exchange 2000 platform over the Internet." Natural Language User Interface Mitel's Speak@Ease allows words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. spoken over the telephone to serve as commands to perform a variety of functions, including connecting to individuals simply by saying their name, and issuing messaging commands. "The addition of speech recognition brings a new level of usability to our unified messaging interfaces," said Siravara Vijayendra, vice president, development, Baypoint Innovations. "With a voice interface to OnePoint Messenger, mobile users will be able to take advantage of the functionality previously only available to desktop users." VPIM with Microsoft At Tech-Ed 2000, Microsoft and Baypoint Innovations are conducting a joint demonstration highlighting VPIM interoperability between Baypoint Innovations' OnePoint Messenger for Exchange 5.5 and Microsoft's Exchange 2000. VPIM allows inter-messaging system interoperability: voice mail users, unified messaging users and e-mail users can freely exchange voice and fax messages using standard e-mail protocols -- SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. with MIME encoding. VPIM also allows OnePoint users to compose one voice mail message and send it to e-mail and voice mail users. This eliminates the need for senders to send separate messages -- one via text to e-mail centric people, another via voice to voice mail centric people. Exchange 2000 and Microsoft Management Console A Windows NT/2000 feature that provides a common environment for running management software from Microsoft and third parties. Any type of administration service such as network management, antivirus management, disk management and authentication can be created as a Microsoft Management As part of the Microsoft sponsored Exchange 2000 Joint Development Program, Baypoint Innovations is working closely with Microsoft to make OnePoint Messenger easy to administer, and to reduce the total cost of messaging for customers. OnePoint Messenger is integrated with Active Directory and the Microsoft Management Console (MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. ), which takes single point of administration to a new level. The Telephony Sever, Exchange Server, and User Profiles are now all managed in a single environment, saving in training costs and improving administration efficiency. OnePoint Messenger OnePoint Messenger is a true unified messaging product, based on a Microsoft Exchange e-mail server. OnePoint Messenger drastically reduces total messaging costs by unifying voice, fax and e-mail messaging into a single message store (Exchange), a single directory (Active Directory) and a single maintenance interface (MMC). OnePoint provides anywhere, anytime, anyway access to all message types via PC, telephone or Web browser. About Baypoint Innovations Baypoint Innovations, a leading provider of CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment voice mail and advanced messaging products worldwide, is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with account management and support throughout North America and in key global markets. The unit's products and services are sold through a worldwide network of more than 35 major OEMs and distributors including Ameritech/SBC, Bell South, Fujitsu, Mitel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Williams Communications, and others. More information is available at 408-562-3400 or via the Web at www.bayptin.com. Mitel is a growing global provider of communications systems and semiconductors for converging voice and data networks in a rapidly evolving Internet economy. Mitel generates annual revenue of $1.4 billion and employs 6,000 people worldwide. Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risk, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, among others, the risks discussed in documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors are encouraged to consider the risks detailed in those filings. OnePoint Messenger and Speak@Ease are trademarks of Mitel Corporation. True Unified Messaging is a service mark of Baypoint Innovations. All other names and products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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