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April 26, 2000
WIRENIX.COM TEAMS WITH NUANCE TO DELIVER VOICE-DRIVEN APPLICATIONS TO WIRELESS MARKET
Joins Nuance Partner Alliance
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DALLAS, TX - April 26, 2000 - WireNix.com, today announced that it has joined the Nuance Partner Alliance (NPA), a strategic alliance of leading technology companies dedicated to working with Nuance to deliver complete speech solutions for businesses worldwide. The more than 100-member strong NPA includes hardware, software, services and support companies - many of whom are considered leaders in their respective market categories.
Based on voice interface software from Nuance, WireNix.com, www.wirenix.com, will develop and implement customized voice-driven applications for wireless networks, Internet service providers, and wireless Web portals. Using open architecture, off-the-shelf hardware, and open application standards, WireNix.com solutions emphasize low cost-of-ownership, flexibility, scalability and speed to market.
"We chose Nuance because its software toolkit and speech recognition engine work especially well with the applications we are developing, and Nuance welcomed us as not only a marketing partner but also as a technology collaborator," said Victor James, chief executive officer of WireNix.com.
David Lau, chief technology officer of WireNix.com, said, "We were especially attracted to Nuance because its partner alliance is the largest of its kind and it focuses on the important things: partnership, education, innovation and customer satisfaction."
About WireNix.com
WireNix.com is a Dallas, Texas-based company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Cobra Group, with offices in New York, The Netherlands, and India. WireNix.com is a new speech-driven technology company led by two veterans of the computer telephony integration industry, M. Victor James, chief executive officer, and David A. Lau, chief technology officer. James and Lau worked closely together at Texas Instruments and DSC Communications Corp. where they were actively involved in the early development and implementation of DSP technology, speech recognition technology, and other leading-edge technologies for both wired and wireless networks. For more information, call WireNix.com toll-free at 877-WireNix.
About Nuance
Nuance develops, markets and supports a voice interface software platform that makes the information and services of enterprises, telecommunications networks and the Internet accessible from any telephone. Every day, millions of people interact with Nuance systems at blue chip companies like American Airlines, Charles Schwab, The Home Shopping Network, Lloyds TSB, Sears and United Parcel Service. Nuance is also driving the creation of the Voice Web and delivering software for V-Commerce(tm) (voice-enabled e-commerce) services and applications. Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. with global sales offices and partners supporting solutions in multiple languages around the world. To experience Nuance's state of the art technology, call 1-888-NUANCE-8 or visit www.nuance.com.
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For further information:
Victor James
WireNix.com
(972) 930-7950
vjames@wirenix.com
Jason Khoury
Benjamin Group/BSMG Worldwide
(408) 559-6090
jason_khoury@benjamingroup.com
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