Chairman's Statement

RNS Number:1118O
Vocalis Group PLC
19 July 2000

                                                                              
                              Vocalis Group plc                               
                                AGM statement                                 

Vocalis Group plc ("Vocalis"), the international speech technology group, held
its Annual General Meeting in Cambridge today where all resolutions were duly
passed.  Roy Cotterill, Chairman of Vocalis, in welcoming shareholders to the
AGM commented:

"Since the announcement of the Preliminary results for the year ended 31 March
2000, I am pleased to report some encouraging developments within the
business.   

Whilst in the short term we remain dependent on the timing of SPEECHtel
orders, I am pleased to report our Internet services division is making
progress in the US market and we announce today three new partnership
agreements with Hot Telephone, Total1 and Worldshare who will be promoting
SpeechMail to their US based users.

With regards to the US corporate market, we are pleased to announce that
Novell Corporation is conducting a trial of SpeechMail to be offered to the US
corporate market.

We are also now beginning to see the results of our continued development and
promotion of our core speech recognition technology, SpeechWare, and announce
today an exclusive agreement with Backchat/2CV who will use our technology to
provide voice portal services, the first of which is a weather forecast
service offered by weatherforsport.com.

In the telephony systems division we announce today that Ericsson Mexico, has
signed an agreement under which Telmex, the Mexican fixed line network
operator, extends its commitment to SPEECHtel for a further 5 years bringing
the total contract value to $6 million to be spread over the next 5 years.  In
addition, we are pleased to report that the relationship with BT Syncordia
Solutions is progressing well.

These successes are indications that we have adopted the right strategy
designed to attack our target markets and, given the present level of interest
in our technology within these markets, we are confident of a successful
long-term future."


For further information:     
  
Charles Halle/Paul Wright, Vocalis Group plc
Tel: [phone] 
[e-mail]       

Victoria Bisset/Tom Moriarty, ICIS
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]