Brooktrout and VoiceGenie Collaborate to Deliver New Generation of High Scale Speech Driven Multimedia Applications

Strategic Partnership Features Brooktrout's Best-of-Breed IP Media Server with VoiceGenie's Industry-leading VoiceXML Technology: Brooktrout Solution to Drive Advanced Multimedia Services for Fixed and Mobile Operators 


NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 17  /PRNewswire/ -- Brooktrout Technology, a leading supplier of media processing and call-control products, and VoiceGenie Technologies Inc., the leader in VoiceXML and speech platforms, today announced a strategic technology partnership between the two companies. Brooktrout will incorporate VoiceGenie's VoiceXML technology into its SnowShore IP media server to help enable fixed and mobile service providers to rapidly bring to market a new generation of high scale speech-driven multimedia services.

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Brooktrout and VoiceGenie enjoy a broad strategic partnership and are collaborating to deliver media server products through their partnership in the first quarter of 2006. Brooktrout expects to make VoiceGenie's industry leading VoiceXML 2.0-compliant technology a standard feature of the SnowShore IP Media Server, providing carriers with enhanced speech processing capabilities and scalable VoiceXML support combined with carrier-grade multimedia processing for advanced speech-driven applications.

"A core tenet of Brooktrout's product strategy is to partner with best-of- breed application technology developers to deliver high value multimedia platforms that can blend rich media/web content with voice services for the global service provider market with superior scale and performance," said Peter Vescuso, Brooktrout's vice president of market development.  "VoiceGenie is a long-time partner of Brooktrout and the industry's leading developer of carrier-grade VoiceXML technologies. This solution enables Brooktrout to provide our partners and service provider customers with the mission critical application building blocks to transform the vision of next generation multimedia services into a deployed reality."

As a pioneering contributor to VoiceXML's advancement, VoiceGenie continues to support and influence the direction of the standard as a participant on the VoiceXML Forum's Board of Directors and a member of the W3C. Brooktrout pioneered the SIP-based IP media server, and has also contributed to the advancement of protocols including VoiceXML, which has become a standard and accepted method of providing interactive speech control for media processing resources.

"Combining the power of Brooktrout's field proven SnowShore IP Media Server processing solutions with VoiceGenie's unmatched strength in VoiceXML and MRCP technologies brings together impressive synergies," said Frank Tersigni, vice president of Marketing and Business Development at VoiceGenie Technologies. "Our goal is to provide integrated technology that will enhance Brooktrout's compelling multimedia processing solutions."

Brooktrout's SnowShore IP Media Server(TM) is a premier software-based, carrier-grade IP media server supported by a wide range of industry standard hardware platforms running on Red Hat Linux. It leverages the simplicity, openness, and flexibility of SIP, VoiceXML, and MSCML to provide a cost- effective and scalable IP media server solution, powering a broad range of voice and video services for next-generation wireline, wireless and broadband networks including the 3GPP/3GPP2 IPMultimedia Subsystem (IMS) network architecture.

This strategic partnership agreement comes on the heels of VoiceGenie's recent announcement to collaborate with Brooktrout on interoperability of VoiceGenie's Media Resource Function Controller (MRFC) with the Brooktrout SnowShore IP Media Server's Media Resource Function Processor (MRFP) as defined by the IMS network architecture.

About VoiceGenie Technologies Inc.

VoiceGenie is the leading supplier of standards-based Media Controller software to process VoiceXML applications; speech and DTMF applications; and provide media control. VoiceGenie's Media Controller is certified as VoiceXML 2.0 conformant by the VoiceXML Forum and also supports standards and protocols such as CCXML, X+V, SIP and MRCP. VoiceGenie powers some of the largest VoiceXML and VoIP deployments in the world and successfully manages millions of customer calls daily. Our customers include leading telecomm service providers such as AT&T, Bell Canada, BellSouth, France Telecom, mobilkom austria, Orange, SBC Technology, Telkom South Africa, Verizon, Vodafone, and others. More information can be found on the company's web site at http://www.voicegenie.com/.

About Brooktrout Technology

Brooktrout Technology is a leading supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products that enable the development of applications, systems and services for both the New Network(TM) (packet-based) and the traditional telephone (TDM) network, and active in the standards setting process. Eric Burger, Brooktrout's CTO, is the chair of the SPEECHSC workgroup for the IETF where MRCP and voice standards are defined. The company's strategy is to partner with our customers and collaborate closely with them to help accelerate their delivery of new applications and services, increase their existing business, and expand into new markets. For more information, visit http://www.brooktrout.com/. Brooktrout Technology is a subsidiary of Brooktrout, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKT).

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