Centigram's TruVoice to Provide Text-to-Speech Conversion for Big Sky's MaxMail Unified Messaging Product.NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1997--Centigram Communication Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CGRM CGRM Computer Graphics Reference Model (ISO) ), a leading global provider of wireless and wireline messaging and communications solutions, today announced that its award-winning TruVoice text-to-speech converter is now available as part of MaxMail, a 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. application from Big Sky Technologies. MaxMail is a Windows NT-based computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration application on Big Sky's voice server platform which provides Internet mail See Internet e-mail service. users access to their messages from any touch-tone phone. The advanced features of TruVoice enable Lotus Notes users to manage their Notes email, voice and fax messages from their desktop or any touch-tone telephone. For example, users can now call in and listen to their Notes email messages using TruVoice, which converts any text to highly intelligible, natural sounding speech. MaxMail is directed to Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. selling enhanced messaging services and to companies building corporate intranets. It answers incoming phone calls and guides callers through the process of logging into an email account and reviewing messages. "We're pleased to expand our existing relationship with Big Sky and to have TruVoice integrated into the MaxMail offering," said Dana Hooper, Technology Business Unit general manager. "Because it is standard compliant, MaxMail has the potential to be a leading computer telephony application and coupled with TruVoice, can provide tremendous productivity benefits for unified messaging users." "TruVoice offers an unparalleled combination of email-reading features that clearly exceed other offerings on the market," said Bill Doll, president of Big Sky Technologies. "The biggest advantages include TruVoice's ability to provide a natural sounding voice and the intelligibility on abbreviations, as well as the ability to eliminate unnecessary email headers. Other products offer one or the other but do not provide a combined feature set as powerful as TruVoice." Centigram's Technology Business Unit (TBU TBU Tomas Bata University (Czech Republic, Zlin) TBU Tertiary Butyl (chemistry) TBU Tape Backup Unit TBU To Be Updated TBU This Binary Universe (band) TBU True But Useless ) develops and markets TruVoice, its patented TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to software, in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. In addition to applications throughout the commercial computer telephony marketplace, TruVoice is used in other cutting-edge applications, including Microsoft Phone and Group Sense, Ltd.'s hand-held translation dictionaries. Centigram's TBU also has licensing agreements with many companies, including Dialogic, Natural Microsystems, Dragon Systems Inc., Intervoice and AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. Computers, to name a few. Centigram cen·ti·gram n. A metric unit of mass equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a gram. centigram one-hundredth of a gram; abbreviated cg. Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:CGRM) is a leading global provider of wireless and wireline messaging and communications solutions. Centigram delivers communications solutions by integrating voice, data and facsimile on its Series 6 communications server, and by providing access to this multimedia information through a telephone or PC. The Series 6 platform is based on industry-standard hardware and software. Centigram also licenses TruVoice, its patented text-to-speech software. Centigram is headquartered at 91 East Tasman Drive, San Jose, Calif., 95134. Phone (408) 944-0250, fax (408) 428-3732, World Wide Web http://www.centigram.com. Centigram has sales and support offices in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. -0- Note to Editors: Centigram and TruVoice are registered trademarks of Centigram Communications Corporation. CONTACT: Beverly Rindfleisch Centigram Communications Corporation 408/428-3722 bev.rindfleisch@centigram.com or Robin Foster/Gina Anderlini Miller/Shandwick Technologies 415/962-9550 rfoster/ganderlini@miller.shandwick.com |
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