SpeechTEK New York 2005 Exhibitor Profiles.

NEW YORK -- SpeechTEK New York 2005 takes place August 1 - 3 at the New York Marriott Marquis. For in-depth information about the event visit http://www.speechtek.com/.

Below are profiles from SpeechTEK New York 2005 exhibitors; breaking news releases are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference, and event news resource.

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Company:       Acapela Group
Booth/Stand:   211
Media Contact: Caroline Houel
IR Contact:    Antoine Kauffeisen
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.acapela-group.com

Acapela Group, the 1st European Speech Group, is entirely dedicated to
developing and deploying natural language interfaces. Our multilingual
text to speech solutions are available in 22 languages. Acapela Group
speech solutions have already been deployed in many services and
applications allowing speech enabled voice portals, unified messaging
services, CRM and contact centers, talking web, interactive games,
edutainment software, e-learning tools, public address, assistive
tools for the disabled, navigation aid, embedded systems, and much
more. Acapela is presently No. 1 supplier of vocal technologies to the
European, Middle East and Nordic markets.

Company:       Ai-Logix, Inc., an AudioCodes company
Booth/Stand:   708
Ticker Symbol: AUDC
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Stephanie Fennell
Phone:         [phone] ext. 142
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           http://www.ai-logix.com

Ai-Logix, Inc., an AudioCodes company (NASDAQ: AUDC), designs and
manufactures computer telephony components for voice/data integration
and network telephony solutions. With local and international branches
located around the globe, Ai-Logix is a trusted source for advanced
technology for CT developers and OEMs of communication systems.
Ai-Logix maintains the ability to customize its technology to provide
a distinct competitive advantage in the open market. To learn more
about Ai-Logix solutions, please visit http://www.ai-logix.com, or
call 732-469-0880.

Company:       Aspect Communications Corporation
Booth/Stand:   313
Ticker Symbol: ASPT
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Jennifer Stroud, Public Relations Manager;
               [phone]; [e-mail]
IR Contact:    Carrie Kovac, Director, Investor Relations;
               [phone]; [e-mail]
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.aspect.com

Aspect Communications is a leading provider of contact center products
and services that enable businesses to manage and optimize customer
communications. The company's award-winning Customer Self-Service
(CSS) is an interactive voice response platform with advanced speech
recognition, text-to-speech, and voiceprint identification
capabilities. Aspect CSS delivers scalable, mission-critical voice
self-service via PSTN and VoIP. Aspect's leadership is based on two
decades of contact center expertise. Leading corporations in
industries such as transportation, financial services, healthcare,
insurance, telecommunications, retail and outsourcing use Aspect's
solutions. Aspect is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with offices
in countries around the world. Visit www.aspect.com.

Company:       Brooktrout Technology
Booth/Stand:   307
Ticker Symbol: BRKT
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Laura Often
IR Contact:    Erin Reilly
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.brooktrout.com

Brooktrout Technology is a leading supplier of media processing and
call control technologies for communications applications.
Brooktrout's TR1000(tm) telephony platform offers a broad range of
configurations including analog, BRI and T1/E1/PRI, with software
that's been optimized for speech. Together, with its partners Envox,
Intervoice, Microsoft, Vocomo and VoiceGenie, the Company provides the
solutions that support rapid speech development on industry standard
platforms using VoiceXML and SALT.

Company:       Comverse
Booth/Stand:   112
Ticker Symbol: CMVT
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Penny Blaisdel
IR Contact:    Paul Baker
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.comverse.com

Comverse is the leading provider of multimedia value-added services in
wireless and wireline networks. For nearly two decades, service
providers around the world have relied on Comverse solutions to
achieve their business goals through the deployment of enhanced
telecommunication services such as innovative, market-focused
solutions that blend voice, data, and video. Over 400 wireline and
wireless network operators in more than 100 countries around the world
rely on expertly crafted Comverse service solutions to reinforce brand
identity, strengthen customer loyalty, and increase revenue. Comverse
is a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc., a publicly held company traded
as CMVT on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Company:       CPT International
Booth/Stand:   304
Media Contact: Linda Healan
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.cptii.com

CPT International Inc. is a telecom service provider located in
Marietta, Ga. Our flagship offering, Voice Harbor, provides hosting
services for VoiceXML, speech, multi-modal and traditional telephony
applications. Voice Harbor brings flexible call capacity, predictable
costs and rapid deployment to customers and partners seeking to
outsource voice application infrastructure. With more than a decade of
experience delivering robust telephony performance and proactive
support to carrier-grade customers, CPT is the partner of choice for
standards-based voice application hosting. For more information, visit
us at www.cptii.com.

Company:       Eicon Networks
Booth/Stand:   609
Media Contact: Leigh Ann Clavenna
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.eicon.com

Eicon Networks Corporation is a leading designer, developer and
manufacturer of quality communication products for networked business
applications. Founded in 1984 and Headquartered in Montreal, Canada,
Eicon has a global presence with regional offices across the world
distributing, marketing and supporting its products in more than 80
countries through a network of channel partners. Eicon's Research and
Development centers in Canada, Germany and Ireland develop products
which have an installed base of over 3 million units. Eicon's key
focus is on the following market areas:

    --  Voice, speech, conferencing and VoIP

    --  Financial/POS transactions

    --  Professional ISDN remote access

Company:       Envox Worldwide
Booth/Stand:   716
Media Contact: Catherine Van Evans
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.envox.com

Envox Worldwide is a leading global provider of voice solutions. The
company's software and related services dramatically reduce the time,
cost, and complexity of creating voice solutions. These products and
services enable enterprise customers and service providers to
significantly reduce operating costs, improve customer satisfaction
and retention, and generate new revenue streams. Headquartered in
Boston, the company's products include: Envox 6, Envox 6 VoiceXML
Studio, Envox CT ADE(TM) and Envox CT Connect(TM) all of which are
available through a network of global channel partners. For more
information, please visit www.envox.com

Company:       GM Voices, Inc.
Booth/Stand:   510
Media Contact: Valerie Hayden
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.gmvoices.com

Stop by GM Voices' PersonaPods at SpeechTEK on the 4th and 5th floors.
These innovative stations allow attendees to hear sample personas,
listen to interviews and hear crazy voice prompts. After you get to
know these personas, stop by the GM Voices booth to see how we
actually conduct a recording session. Our voice actor will record a
personalized crazy message for you to have fun with when you get back
home. You can also pick up a "Shhhhh!" Recording button with a
flashing recording light! But there's more! Get a copy of Voice
Branding in America while they last!

Company:       Gold Systems
Booth/Stand:   101
Media Contact: Kendra Westerkamp
Phone:         [phone] ext 2240
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.goldsys.com

Company:       Interactive Intelligence
Booth/Stand:   210
Ticker Symbol: ININ
Exchange:      Nasdaq
Media Contact: Christine Holley
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.ININ.com

Interactive Intelligence Inc.(R) (Nasdaq: ININ) offers more than a
decade of business communications innovation, experience and value as
a global developer of software for IP telephony, contact centers,
unified communications and speech-enabled self-service. Interactive
Intelligence serves customers in more than 30 countries with 350
professionals throughout North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
Now as a leading provider of scalable and reliable standards-based
speech applications that extend RTP streaming for VoIP, Interactive
Intelligence helps you build advanced speech solutions for auto
attendant, voice mail retrieval, database access and other uses. Just
choose your speech engine, and turn your imagination loose.

Company:       IQ Services
Booth/Stand:   104
Media Contact: Sarah Laurin
IR Contact:    Jim Jenkins
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.iq-services.com

IQ Services is an industry leader in affordable testing services for
contact center business solutions that utilize IVR, VoIP, TTS, screen
pop or CTI-based and Web technologies. Since 1996, IQ Services has
provided contact center testing for hundreds of companies around the
world. Our key services include load testing prior to launch of a
system to gauge its ability to handle large traffic volumes, and
proactive availability monitoring to check system availability and
performance. IQ Services employs powerful testing tools that launch
real telephone calls and Internet transactions into to customer
installations. Our patented technologies and methods allow us to
provide services that are easy, fast, affordable and accurate.

Company:       LumenVox
Booth/Stand:   804
Media Contact: Chris Lotspeich
Phone:         [phone] x202
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.LumenVox.com

LumenVox, a developer of speech recognition software with over a
decade of telephony experience, grants businesses, resellers, platform
providers, and service providers, access to the complex speech
recognition industry. LumenVox's award-winning software suite
includes; the Speech Recognition Engine, which powers every solution
that LumenVox provides; the Speech Platform, to rapidly develop and
deploy any speech application; the Speech Driven Assistant; a total
solution to completely speech-enable Vertical Communication's
TeleVantage IP-PBX; and the Speech Tuner, which maintains and tests
existing applications, ensuring that any speech recognition
application, including those driven by Nuance and ScanSoft--continue
to work well.

Company:       MCI
Booth/Stand:   204
Ticker Symbol: MCIP
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Natasha Haubold
Phone:         [phone]
Web:           www.mci.com

MCI, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCIP) is a leading global communications provider,
delivering innovative, cost-effective, advanced communications
connectivity to businesses, governments and consumers. With one of the
most expansive global IP backbones and wholly owned data networks, MCI
develops the converged communications products and services that are
the foundation for commerce and communications in today's market. For
more information, go to www.mci.com.

Company:       Message Technologies, Inc.
Booth/Stand:   102 & 103
Media Contact: Sarah Halim
IR Contact:    Dan Herhold
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.messagetech.com

MTI (Message Technologies, Inc.) is an industry leader in providing
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and speech technologies. Its mission
is to deliver innovative and affordable interactive voice solutions
with maximum customer satisfaction. With over 2000 customers
throughout North America and Canada, MTI specializes in speech IVR
outsourcing services, including VoiceXML and SALT hosting. MTI also
provides senior telephony and speech professional services for the
design, development, deployment and ongoing testing of speech-enabled
applications. It handles every part of the speech application
infrastructure including trunk and platform provisioning, business
continuation planning, monitoring, web access, physical and logical
security and co-location, and live agent services. For more
information about MTI, please visit its website at
www.messagetech.com.

Company:       Microsoft Corp.
Booth/Stand:   502
Ticker Symbol: MSFT
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Sarah Warrick
IR Contact:    Microsoft Rapid Response Team, [phone]
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.microsoft.com/speech

Part of the Windows Server System (TM), Microsoft Speech Server (MSS)
2004 R2 is a Web-based, speech-enabled Interactive Voice Response
(IVR) and multimodal application solutions platform. As a Speech
Application Language Tags (SALT)-based platform, Speech Server follows
the Web application deployment model, using an ASP.NET-based Web
server as the application server. The two main core components
included with MSS are the Telephony Application Services (TAS) and
Speech Engine Services (SES), including automatic speech recognition
(ASR), TTS and prompt manager. MSS 2004 R2 also can be deployed in an
all-in-one server configuration, giving customers greater flexibility
when choosing their deployment option.

Company:       NetByTel, Inc.
Booth/Stand:   714
Media Contact: Ken Jackowitz
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.netbytel.com

NetByTel delivers the best telephone self-service experience for
callers. We help our clients save money, improve their customer's
experience, and enhance their brand image. Our speech recognition
solutions provide our clients increased revenue opportunities, reduced
operating expense, 24x7 service availability, and increased gross
margins. NetByTel solutions are available as a managed service, or a
software-licensing model for on-premise implementations. All solutions
can fully integrate into a client's web services or back-end
infrastructure, and are CTI capable.

Company:       NICE Systems
Booth/Stand:   413
Ticker Symbol: NICE
Exchange:      NASDAQ
Media Contact: Galit Belkind
IR Contact:    Amit Scheinmann
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.nice.com

NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is the leading provider of Insight from
Interactions, based on advanced content analytics - of telephony, web,
radio, and video communications. NICE's solutions improve business and
operational performance, as well as security. NICE has over 23,000
customers in 100 countries, including the world's top 10 banks and 78
of the Fortune 100 companies. More information is available at
www.nice.com.

Company:       NSC - Natural Speech communication Ltd.
Booth/Stand:   722
Ticker Symbol: NSC
Media Contact: Mr. Guy Alon ([e-mail])
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.nscspeech.com

NSC produces ASR engines running on PCI blades. This unique approach
allows high density at low cost with simple system architecture. NSC's
PCI based product performs speech recognition without any need for CPU
resources, maintaining minimal footprints, side by side with maximum
flexibility for the users to optimize system resources. NSC offers a
speech recognition engine for speech-driven telephony services as well
as a Key-word spotting engine for speech analytics. The company is
active in the US, Europe and Middle-East and delivers its product
through business partners: IVR, VXML platforms, application
developers, system integrators, recording platforms and customers such
as cellular operators.

Company:       Syntellect
Booth/Stand:   209
Media Contact: Lance Fried, Vice President, Marketing
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.syntellect.com

Syntellect's Continuum(TM) offers a comprehensive array of
self-service and live-assistance solutions, from packaged,
off-the-shelf products to modular tools and custom capabilities,
focused on increasing customer satisfaction and decreasing customer
service costs for inbound and outbound voice, web, and e-mail
communications. Our open-standard, next-generation technologies
provide total flexibility to meet the diverse needs of today's
enterprises - and tomorrow's.

Company:       varetis AG
Booth/Stand:   411
Ticker Symbol: VRI 691190
Media Contact: Gabriele Leitl
IR Contact:    Anja Meyer
Phone:         [phone]
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.varetis.com

The name varetis is synonymous with directory assistance. Over the
past 20 years we have equipped more than 240 telephone service centers
and nearly 18,000 agent positions with our products and services.
Every year, some 2 billion directory assistance calls are handled by
our customers around the world. We are proud to count among our
customers many of the world's largest telecommunications carriers and
service providers, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, BT, Telkom South
Africa, Telefonica de Argentina, TOT Thailand, Telecom New Zealand,
telegate and Vodafone. We have installed solutions and provided
service on all continents and in a multitude of languages.

Company:       VoiceGenie Technologies Inc.
Booth/Stand:   508
Media Contact: Bryan Socransky
Phone:         [phone] ext 306
E-mail:        [e-mail]
Web:           www.voicegenie.com

About VoiceGenie Technologies Inc.VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. is the
proven performance leader in standards-based software platforms
powering customer contact solutions and next generation networks.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, VoiceGenie offers high-performance,
scalable platforms that provide enterprises and service providers with
a flexible, open standards infrastructure for supporting
next-generation networks and speech-enabled contact centers.
VoiceGenie's platform, available in multiple configurations, has been
certified as VoiceXML conformant by the VoiceXML Forum and also
supports other emerging standards such as CCXML, X+V, SIP and MRCP.

Company:       West Corporation
Booth/Stand:   604
Ticker Symbol: WSTC
Exchange:      Nasdaq
Media Contact: Mac McNeer - 312-553-6742; [e-mail]
IR Contact:    Carol Padon
Phone:         [phone]
Web:           www.west.com

West Corporation is a leading provider of outsourced communication
solutions to many of the world's largest companies. The company helps
its clients communicate effectively, maximize the value of their
customer relationships and drive greater revenue from each
transaction. West's integrated suite of customized solutions includes
customer acquisition, customer care and retention services,
interactive voice response services, conferencing, and receivables
management services. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha,
Nebraska, West has a team of approximately 28,000 employees based in
North America, Europe and Asia.