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PhoneSoft Demonstrates Fonix Text-to-Speech Technology at Lotusphere
PR Newswire, Monday, February 01, 1999 at 16:38
Leader in Lotus Notes Unified Messaging Demonstrated Fonix Technology
in PhoneSoft's Unified MailCall Product
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Fonix Corporation (NASDAQ:FONX)
and PhoneSoft Inc., the leader in Lotus Notes Unified Messaging and telephone
solutions, announced today that PhoneSoft successfully demonstrated Fonix
text-to-speech technology in their Unified MailCall product at Lotusphere99,
Orlando, FL, Jan. 17-20, 1999. Unified MailCall is a complete voice mail,
unified messaging, and auto attendant system for Lotus Notes. Lotusphere99 is
the leading industry conference on Lotus products, attended by more than
10,000 developers, vendors and customers.
At Lotusphere99, PhoneSoft demonstrated Fonix's text-to-speech, software
which speech-enables e-mail, facsimiles and other text documents. Callers
into the Unified MailCall system can now retrieve all of their messages:
voicemail, e-mail, and faxes over the phone by dialing just one number.
Managers traveling or away from the office will no longer be required to carry
a PC or dial multiple numbers to access important messages.
"PhoneSoft believes Fonix's text-to-speech technology is a superior
solution that will enable our customers to leverage the power of unified
messaging through more natural sounding synthetic speech in a Lotus Notes
environment," said John Wirfel, president and CEO of PhoneSoft.
"Fonix's relationship with PhoneSoft will enable us to penetrate the vast
Lotus Notes market, of which there are over 33 million users," said John
Oberteuffer, vice president of technology at Fonix. "The Lotus Notes product
was designed with a vision of messaging in the future, whereby messages can be
easily distributed, retrieved and consolidated across the enterprise simply,
efficiently and reliably."
About Unified MailCall
Unified MailCall, installed in over 250,000 seats, is the leading Unified
Messaging solution for Lotus Notes. Unified MailCall is a complete voice
mail, unified messaging, and autoattendant system for Lotus Notes. On the
road or in the office, Unified MailCall increases user productivity and saves
employees time by maintaining all messages in a single unified mailbox.
Unified MailCall's advanced autoattendant features help make employees more
accessible. And Unified MailCall's unique message management and access
capabilities keep your employees more current and enables them to be more
responsive. Scaleable to any size company, and compatible with any PBX or
phone system.
About PhoneSoft
The recognized leader in Lotus Notes telephone solutions, PhoneSoft
(San Diego, CA) has an advanced platform and complete product suite for
integrating computers and telephones. PhoneSoft applications provide instant
access to any Notes database or application using any touch-tone telephone.
PhoneSoft products are used in a wide range of applications including unified
messaging, voice mail, email readers, helpdesks, faxback, paging, human
resources, sales force automation, course registration, conference room
reservation, time reporting, order entry, catalog ordering and sales, voice
transcription, dictation, remote forms creation, workflow automation,
text-to-speech, speech recognition, as well as a range of other interactive
voice response (IVR) applications. PhoneSoft customers range from very large
corporations such as IBM, The New York Times, Lotus, Sony, NASA, MasterCard,
and Kodak, to very small companies and consultants.
About Fonix Corporation
Fonix Corporation (www.fonix.com), based in Salt Lake City, Utah with
offices in Woburn, MA and Cupertino, CA, provides solutions to make human
interaction with computers and other intelligence appliances more simple and
convenient. The Fonix suite of products and services, including speech
recognition, handwriting recognition and text-to-speech, provides natural,
intuitive solutions that allow people and their technological tools to speak
to and interact with each other in human terms. Fonix technology enhances
products offered by Fonix and its OEM partners and is included in computer and
Internet based systems and devices for consumer, professional and industrial
markets.
Note: The statements released by Fonix Corporation that are not purely
historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor"
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including
statements regarding the Company's expectation, hopes, intentions, and
strategies for the future. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking
statements invoke risk and uncertainties that may affect the Company's
business prospects and performance. It is important to note that the
Company's actual results could differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake any responsibility
to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release.
SOURCE Fonix Corporation
-0- 02/01/99
/CONTACT: Steve Hansen of Fonix Corporation, 801-553-6600,
invrel@fonix.com/
/Web site: fonix.com
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