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To: Dave Swanson who wrote (15999)	11/13/2000 10:48:45 AM
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RT/FYI Vocal Link to Use Lucent Technologies' Speech Technology in Cross Media Messaging(TM) CALABASAS, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Vocal Link Inc. and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) have signed a licensing and joint development agreement under which they will incorporate Lucent's state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech and other associated technologies developed by scientists at Bell Labs into Vocal Link's unified messaging system. In exchange for the licensing agreement, Lucent has acquired a small stake in Vocal Link. Vocal Link uses a proprietary unified messaging technology called Cross Media Messaging(TM) that enables any message to be transmitted or received by voice, email, fax, pager, or wireless device, using text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion. An email or a fax can be listened to in its entirety on the phone, a fax or an email can be sent simply by speaking the message into the phone, a voice mail can be forwarded as a fax, and so on. Users can receive, reply, forward and send new messages using a variety of media. "By working with Bell Labs on the development and deployment of these technologies, we are able to ensure that our customers receive leading edge services," said Robert Newman, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Vocal Link. "Vocal Link's system illustrates how Lucent's advanced speech technology can be deployed to meet all kinds of communications challenges," said Sid Ahuja, Multimedia Communications Research vice president of Bell Labs. About Vocal Link Vocal Link, Inc. is a Communications Application Service Provider (CASP) of speech-activated business-to-business communication services for mobile professionals, enterprises and telephone carriers. The company's offerings are designed to streamline information access for individuals and businesses as well as to voice-enable mobile Internet applications. The privately held company, founded in 1997, recently changed its name from CoolEmail.com. Its corporate offices are in Calabasas, CA, with technology headquarters outside of Chicago in Glencoe, IL. For more information, visit their website at vocallink.com . About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as broadband and mobile Internet infrastructure; communications software; communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at lucent.com or the Bell Labs Web site at bell-labs.com . SOURCE Vocal Link, Inc. /CONTACT: Allison Clark of Vocal Link Inc., 847-835-6723, oraclark@vocallink.com; or Leslie J. Nicholson of Lucent Technologies,908-582-5411, or ljnicholson@lucent.com/ /Web site: lucent.comhttp://www.bell-labs.comhttp://www.vocallink.com/ Nov-13-2000 15:35 GMT Symbols: US;LU DE;LUC DE;LUCF CA;LUTI Source PRN PR NewsWire Categories: NWR/CA NWR/NJ NWR/IL NWI/CPR NWI/MLM NWI/TLS NWS/JVN NWS/LIC NWS/TDS