General Magic Joins Nuance Voice Web Application Service Provider Program; Companies Partner to Fuel Growing Momentum of the Voice Web
BusinessWire, 08/22/2000 08:07
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000--General Magic, Inc. (NASDAQ:GMGC), a leading voice applications service provider, and Nuance (NASDAQ:NUAN) today announced that General Magic has been selected as a member of Nuance's new Voice Web ASP Program. As a member of this program, General Magic will use Nuance software to assist enterprises and e-businesses in building and running voice-enabled applications that will be accessible to the more than 1.5 billion telephones users worldwide. General Magic expects its participation in this new program to create new business opportunities and continue to expand the voice applications and services market.
"Nuance has a long and rich history with General Magic and we are delighted to extend our relationship," said Steve Ehrlich, vice president of marketing for Nuance. "Voice ASPs, like General Magic, provide a critical role in the evolution of the Voice Web by providing speech application development services as well as hosting."
For more than three years, General Magic has built and hosted custom-branded voice solutions using the magicTalk platform coupled with Nuance speech recognition technologies. The two companies have a long history of partnering to develop the market for voice solutions. In this partnership, General Magic provides development of custom-branded voice user interfaces, magicTalk platform technologies, system integration of applications, messaging and content sources, and hosting of the resultant voice solution. Nuance provides speech recognition technologies coupled with professional services allowing the best possible speech recognition for the target solution.
"We are very excited about the marketing opportunities the Voice Web ASP program will provide and are thrilled that Nuance has designed a program around the important category of hosted voice solutions," said Paula Skokowski, vice president of marketing for General Magic. "This exceptional opportunity showcases General Magic's offerings to potential customers looking to guard against technology obsolescence in the emerging voice applications market."
About General Magic
General Magic is a voice application service provider dedicated to delivering customized voice applications, hosting, and professional services to leading telecommunications, enterprise and Internet companies. With its award-winning VoiceXML-based magicTalk communications platform and years of experience, General Magic offers the premier voice user interface that combines language, personality, and logic, creating a natural conversation between people and information. General Magic creates value for its customers by building voice solutions that strengthen customer relations, deliver value-added services, and provide access to content anytime, anywhere. General Magic is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For additional information about General Magic, visit the company's web site at generalmagic.com.
General Magic notes that the forward-looking statements in this press release involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause industry trends, or actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future trends, results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these statements. These include, among others, risks and uncertainties concerning the adequacy of the Company's financial resources to execute its business plan; market acceptance of the Company's technologies and services; the Company's ability to attract, retain and motivate key technical, marketing and management personnel; the ability of the Company to establish and maintain relationships with businesses that have high volume customer interactions, and to establish alliances with companies that offer technology solutions for such businesses; the challenges inherent in the development, delivery and implementation of complex technologies; the ability of the Company's third party technology partners to timely develop, license or support technology necessary to the Company's services; and the Company's ability to respond to competitive developments. These and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in General Magic's Registration Statement on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2000.
Note to Editors: General Magic and magicTalk are trademarks of General Magic, Inc., which may be registered in some jurisdictions. Other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.
CONTACT: General Magic
Erin Collopy, 408/774-4225
erin@generalmagic.com
or
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