Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Introduces New Mobile Phones Featuring Fonix Text-to-Speech Integrated into the Casio Soft Mobile Dictionary.

Two New Models Feature "Talking" Dictionaries, Turning a Mobile Phone into a Portable Multi-Use Communication Device

SALT LAKE CITY -- Fonix Speech, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fonix[R] Corporation (OTCBB:FNIX) specializing in embedded speech interfaces for mobile devices, handheld electronic products, video game systems and processors, announces Fonix DECtalk text-to-speech (TTS) on two new dictionary-enabled mobile phones for the Japanese market introduced by Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications, a company providing customers with highly reliable mobile phone products packed with cutting-edge technologies, and Casio Soft Co., Ltd., a mobile technology company integrating Casio hardware and software to worldwide mobile applications.

Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications' (CHMC) two new mobile phones -- the Casio W51CA and the Hitachi W51H, which are built on the BREW operating system -- feature Fonix text-to-speech and are now available for sale in Japan. Casio Soft integrated Fonix TTS into the Mobile Dictionary, which 'speaks' dictionary words and sentences to the user in English. Fonix receives unit royalties from the sale of each phone.

"Casio Soft chose Fonix text-to-speech as the voice of the Mobile Dictionary because Fonix DECtalk is clear and understandable," says Yutaka Kida, Planning Department Manager, Casio Soft. "We're excited to offer customers such a useful, high-quality device."

"These new Casio and Hitachi phones feature Fonix technology embedded directly on the devices," explains Walt Nawrocki, Senior VP and GM, Fonix Speech. "Casio Soft and CHMC have done a terrific job of engineering yet another way to incorporate TTS technology into a handheld device by combining a helpful e-dictionary and a mobile phone. We're expecting customers to readily accept these phones and create market demand for them."

The Casio W51CA and the Hitachi W51H are available in Japan through mobile carrier KDDI/au (www.au.kddi.com).

For more information about Fonix speech solutions, visit www.fonix.com, or call 801-553-6600 and say "Sales."

About Casio Soft

Casio Soft Co., Ltd. was established by collecting all of the IT capabilities of the entire Casio group into a single entity. Today, the lightweight, compact, low-power hardware and software technology that are the strengths of Casio mobile devices and communication and network technology are divided between Business Solutions and Software Components. Our mission is to form a partnership with our clients in order to provide value that enhances their competitive advantages. This is accomplished by applying Casio hardware and software to create new value that contributes to the growth of our customers. Visit www.casiosoft.co.jp for more information.

About Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications

Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., established on April 1, 2004, provides customers with highly reliable mobile phone products packed with cutting-edge technologies.

The company brings together under a single roof the many highly competitive technological assets possessed by Casio and Hitachi. Among these are Casio's high-density mounting technology, imaging technology, and application technology, which make the most of its success with consumer electronics, and Hitachi's superior high-speed data transmission technology, device utilizing technology, and system design technology, all powerful drivers of its leadership in the info communications and audio-video fields.

Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications is poised not only to take advantage of the accelerating growth of the mobile phone market, but to lead the way with innovations that have never been seen before. The firm's cutting-edge technologies have been streamlined and integrated for maximum focus on its core competencies, faster and more efficient development, and a robust production system that will deliver best-selling mobile phones that really do make life more exciting and dreams come true.

About Fonix DECtalk

Fonix DECtalk offers the smallest memory footprint for a multi-language, full-dictionary text-to-speech engine in the industry. Fonix DECtalk is specifically engineered for small devices and limited memory applications and provides a standard of intelligible and natural sound quality that surpasses competitive TTS offerings. DECtalk supports a wide array of hardware platforms and operating systems and offers nine voices (four female, four male and one child's voice) and seven languages (U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian and Latin American Spanish, French, German and Italian).

About Fonix

Fonix Corporation (OTCBB:FNIX), based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an innovative speech recognition and text-to-speech technology company that provides value-added speech solutions through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fonix Speech, Inc., currently offering voice solutions for mobile/wireless devices; interactive video games, toys and appliances; computer telephony systems; the assistive market and automotive telematics. Fonix provides developers and manufacturers with cost-effective speech solutions to enhance devices and systems. Visit www.fonix.com for more information, or call [phone] and say "Sales."

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