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To: Ray Rueb who wrote (2994)	7/29/1998 6:58:00 PM
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>>>Warning: ALL of my comments are colored by the fact that I am very long on GMGC.<<<<< Maybe it's called fantasy land.... Just kidding of course

To: Ray Rueb who wrote (2994)	7/29/1998 7:36:00 PM
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Competition down the road: (BSNS WIRE) PulsePoint Communications Signs Licensing Agreement With Ler PulsePoint Communications Signs Licensing Agreement With Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products; PulsePoint Communications Leads with Speech-enabled Enhanced Services Solutions Business & Technology Editors CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1998--PulsePoint Communications (Nasdaq/NM:PLPT) Wednesday announced a multi-year licensing agreement with Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) (Nasdaq/NM:LHSPF) (Easdaq:LHSP-ED.). L&H is a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services. Under the terms of the agreement, PulsePoint Communications will license L&H software technology for integration onto the PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform for use with its Communication-Management Suite of Applications and any third party application that resides on the platform. PulsePoint will first integrate L&H's carrier-grade text-to-speech synthesizer, which will allow subscribers to access text-based content when connected to a PulsePoint system from any telephone, landline or wireless. Popular applications for text-to-speech processing include spoken retrieval of e-mail messages and Internet content, such as Web pages or stock quotes, through a telephone. "We are excited to participate in PulsePoint's fundamentally different approach to enhanced services," said Gerald Calabrese, president of L&H's Core Technology Division, L&H. "Our companies share a common vision that speech processing plays an integral role in unified messaging and the next generation of enhanced services." Earlier this year PulsePoint introduced the world's first open-system, carrier-grade, enhanced services solution. At that time DataQuest issued a wakeup call to the industry. Both NEXTLINK Communications and GTE Corp. have announced plans for central office deployments of the PulsePoint solution. "Speech processing enables services that are basically impossible with traditional telephone interfaces. By incorporating speech processing onto our platform, our applications become much easier to use," said Mark Ozur, president and CEO of PulsePoint Communications. "We chose L&H technology because their text-to-speech engine is widely recognized as one of the most natural speech synthesizers on the market today." About PulsePoint Communications PulsePoint Communications (formerly Digital Sound Corp.) develops carrier-grade solutions for progressive and competitive telecommunication service providers. The PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform and Communication-Management Suite of Applications, introduced in February of this year, is the world's first carrier-grade, Internet-ready, open-system solution, based on the Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system. Users of PulsePoint Communications' enhanced services applications enjoy any time, anywhere, any device-access to messages and a full range of features that put them in control of their communications. The PulsePoint solution: radically original, fundamentally different. PulsePoint Communications has headquarters near Santa Barbara, Calif. with service and support offices in Europe and Asia. Corporate headquarters is located at 6307 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, Calif. 93013; tel: 805/566-2000; fax: 805/684-2848: Internet: www.plpt.com. PulsePoint Communications is currently traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol PLPT. PulsePoint is ISO-9001 registered. About Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products L&H is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions for computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer goods and the Internet. The company is making the speech user interface (SUI) the keystone of simple, convenient interaction between humans and technology, and is using advanced translation technology to break down cultural barriers. L&H's products and services originate in four basic areas: automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), digital speech and music compression (SMC), and text-to-text (translation). For more information, visit L&H on the Web at www.lhs.com. NOTE: The names, logos and taglines identifying PulsePoint Communications' products and services are proprietary marks of PulsePoint Communications. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. --30--ECQ/la* SJK/la CONTACT: PulsePoint Communications, Carpenteria Pam Thompson, 805/566-2091 pam.thompson@plpt.com or MorseMcFadden Communications Inc. Michele Davis, 425/889-0528 micheled@morsepr.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com * end of story *