SpeechTEK 2005 to Showcase What's Hot, Cool, and Retooled for Speech; New Interactive Demo Lounge Will Put the Power of Speech in Consumer's Hands.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Attendees at this year's annual SpeechTEK Conference and Exhibition, will have the opportunity to put the power of speech technologies in the palm of their hand - quite literally. SpeechTEK 2005's first, "Hot, Cool and Retooled," interactive demonstration area will highlight how speech technologies are retooling many of today's popular consumer electronic devices to introduce some of the hottest, coolest advancements for PDAs, games, mobile phones and other handheld devices. The "Hot, Cool and Retooled" demo lounge is the only venue where consumers, device manufacturers and developers can learn about and interact with innovative, speech-enabled consumer devices. E[acute accent]The interactive demo lounge will showcase speech applications designed exclusively for consumer electronic devices. Attendees will be guided through a hands-on exploration of speech-enabled devices that are reshaping the consumer electronics market. Many of the speech applications designed for consumer devices target a specific demographic - such as the visually impaired or teen market - or are designed to create a more agreeable or superior user interaction. A variety of speech applications will be showcased at the "Hot, Cool and Retooled" Demo Lounge, including the following:

--  Cepstral will demonstrate its small footprint text-to-speech
       (TTS) voices running on WinCE, Symbian, Palm OS, and Embedded
       Linux. Cepstral offers high-quality TTS voices in six
       languages and a range of sizes from two MB on handhelds to 100
       MB on server configurations.

   --  IBM WebSphere(R) Multimodal Environment can help users escape
       from the jungle of remote controls. By combining the visual
       and voice Webs together, users can more easily utilize their
       consumer devices to simply ask for their urgent email and have
       them be displayed instantly, or perhaps ask for tunes by
       Shania Twain, or for foreign films being played this upcoming
       weekend to record.

   --  Kirusa will showcase multimodal applications that enable
       mobile phone subscribers to send an SMS message with their
       voice or play an interactive word game using their voice as a
       "third hand" to find hidden words in a grid. A third
       application lets brokerage customers conduct transactions from
       their mobile phones by speaking into the phone and seeing the
       results on their screen.

   --  Loquendo will present assistive applications for the visually
       impaired that were developed using the company's latest
       multilingual embedded technologies and expressive
       text-to-speech on mobile phones and PDA.

   --  The SpeechWorks division of ScanSoft will demonstrate its
       market-leading screen reader application. The SpeechPAK TALKS
       Premium Edition converts the display text of a cellular
       handset into highly intelligible speech, providing extensive
       feature accessibility for blind and visually impaired
       individuals as well as greater convenience for all users.

   --  Converser for Healthcare, a revolutionary and ground-breaking
       interpreting system from Spoken Translation, Inc., is the
       world's first two-way, cross-lingual, interpretation product
       for a PC tablet. Whether choosing to type, handwrite or speak,
       users can input English and instantly hear and see Spanish -
       and vise-versa.

   --  VoiceSignal is setting the standard for speaker-independent
       speech recognition solutions for mobile devices. VoiceSignal
       will showcase its products including VSuite which is the de
       facto standard for voice dialing/voice commands, and VoiceMode
       which is setting a new standard for voice-to-text input on
       mobile devices. VoiceSignal's solutions for mobile devices are
       small footprint, easy-to-use, and have demonstrated the
       ability to increase operator revenues through increasing
       device usage by end users.

E[acute accent]The "Hot, Cool and Retooled" demo lounge will be open on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. outside of the Expo Hall on the fifth floor at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.

E[acute accent]Register Today

E[acute accent]Registration is required to attend the demo lounge. Register online at www.amcommregistration.com.

E[acute accent]About SpeechTEK

E[acute accent]Now in its 11th year, SpeechTEK has evolved as a highly compelling and educational conference that empowers enterprise and telecommunications organizations with the tools and knowledge to bring the benefits of speech technologies and services to their businesses. This year, more than 100 speech technology and service providers will be on hand to share their knowledge and winning speech strategies with attendees. In addition to this year's stellar keynote agenda, attendees will have access to more than 75 education conference sessions, including the following:

--  Sessions for target markets including utilities, financial
       services, healthcare, retail and more

   --  An entire conference track dedicated to telco and service
       providers

   --  Consumer Electronics Session for embedded applications in
       handsets, devices, games and more

   --  Tracks devoted to Voice User Interface and Application
       Development best practices

   --  Enterprise strategies to define revenue generating and cost
       savings with speech