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Oddcast Selects NeoSpeech TTS Voices for VHost Animated Characters and Adds High Quality US English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean to Its Extensive Suite of TTS Languages.


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 -- Web-Based Conversational Agents Provide Dynamic And Multilingual E-Marketing Experience

NeoSpeech, a provider of speech technologies for hand-held, desktop and network applications, and Oddcast, a developer and distributor of conversational character software products, today announced that NeoSpeech's VoiceText(TM) Text-to-Speech engine has been integrated with Oddcast's VHost(TM) technology. By using VoiceText, Oddcast will be adding high quality US English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean to its existing suite of 10 languages and enhancing its product reach to the Far East.

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Oddcast's VHost software enables companies to improve business results by bringing web and wireless content to life through conversational agents. By integrating NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech technology, these conversational characters can interact with customers and employees via online advertising campaigns, customer service applications, e-learning systems, and mobile devices, and through many other technology driven platforms.

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"Oddcast's success stems from creating a product that adds a deep level of interactivity in rich media applications, enabling users to become active participants, rather than passive viewers of web information," said Yoon Kim, CEO of NeoSpeech. "By adding a realistic speech interface that is convenient and flexible, companies are able to combine the benefits of human face-to-face and computer-based interactions to maximize the overall productivity and value of their marketing and training programs."

NeoSpeech's VoiceText generates natural-sounding voices from text input and offers the same Text-to-Speech solution across hand-held, desktop, laptop and network applications, while supporting a broad range of industry standard operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Available in several languages, VoiceText can process any size or type of text, in applications ranging from telephone access to information or personal e-mail, to reading complete news stories, delivering the highest level of accuracy and quality.

About NeoSpeech

NeoSpeech is a leading provider of Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology and applications for the mobile, enterprise, entertainment and education markets. NeoSpeech offers the most flexible, high-quality TTS engines available on the market for U.S. English and major Asian and European languages, supporting a wide range of embedded devices, desktop and network/server applications. The privately held company privately held company

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, is backed by Voiceware Co., Ltd of Korea. Visit www.neospeech.com for more information on NeoSpeech products, solutions and services.

About Oddcast

Founded in 1999, Oddcast (www.oddcast.com) develops and distributes conversational character software products. Oddcast's core technology, the VHost(TM) Platform, enables companies to improve business results by bringing web and wireless content to life through conversational agents. The Oddcast VHost(TM) platform is the industry-leading solution for enhancing online communication with intelligent, conversational characters that can deliver information and respond dynamically to customer queries. All of Oddcast's products are Web-based and ASP-hosted and can be delivered to any device even in low-bandwidth environments -- PCs, CD-ROMs and mobile devices. The company serves over 2000 customers, including Coca-Cola, Nextel, Verizon, L'Oreal, Holiday Inn, Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU.

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