Listen and respond to your email over any phone; Email Reader Plus lets users listen and respond to email with simple over-the-phone voice commands.

SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1997--Millennia Software today announced Email Reader Plus(TM), mobile communication software that lets people listen and respond to their email messages over any phone while away from the office or home computer.

Through simple over-the-phone voice commands, a user can now respond to an email by recording a voice message that is attached to a reply, or by selecting a response from a customized list of replies. Users can open a Microsoft Word(TM) email attachment over the phone and have it read to them. They can also choose to fax a single email message, fax all unread messages, or fax a Microsoft Office(TM) (e.g., Word, Excel) email attachment to any desired fax machine.

"Email Reader Plus gives the mobile worker a quick way to respond to email messages that arrive while traveling out of the office," said Roeland van Krieken, Millennia's president and co-founder. "For the first time, technology is enabling the mobile professional to conveniently stay in touch with their work environment without taking any device on the road. All they need is access to any phone."

Email Reader Plus is based on technology introduced by Millennia Software late last year with the commercial availability of Email Reader(TM). This technology enables users to call their personal computer from any telephone, talk to it, and have the PC talk back to them with the requested information or action. Millennia's products are the first PC telephony software products that do not require special voice-processing equipment to take advantage of advanced technologies like voice recognition and text-to-speech. All that is required is an Intel Pentium(TM) PC running at 75 MHz or faster, the Microsoft Windows95(TM) operating environment, the Millennia software application, and a TAPI-compliant voice modem.

Millennia's software products are based on the AT&T Watson(TM) voice-processing technology and on the company's own patent-pending VoiceLINK(TM) engine. The Watson technology, which AT&T spent more than 20 years developing, is based on BLASR Speech Recognition and FlexTalk Speech Synthesis algorithms developed by the former AT&T Bell Laboratories. TAPI -- which stands for Telephony Application Programming Interface -- is a widely adopted, open industry standard used internationally. Working with the voice modem, Millennia's VoiceLINK engine converts spoken words into digital instructions that the computer can understand.

The suggested retail price of Email Reader Plus is $89.95, and it is shipping now. Current users of Email Reader will receive a free upgrade to Email Reader Plus. New users can choose to receive a 30-day Free Trial version of the basic Email Reader product by downloading it over Millennia's Internet site at www.msw.com . For more information or to order Millennia Software products, visit the website or call Millennia sales at 888/362-4573.

Founded in 1995 by two former Intel engineers, Millennia Software is developing new ways of controlling PCs and accessing information using the world's most ubiquitous technology appliance -- the telephone.

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