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SyVox Announces SpeechNet Logistics Enhanced Speech-Based Solution

1 November 2000

SyVox Announces SpeechNet(R) Logistics Enhanced Speech-Based Solution

  Turnkey Installation and User-Friendly Features Quicken Implementation And
                       Increase Logistics Productivity

    BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 1 SyVox Corporation, a global leader
in interactive speech-based solutions for mobile workers, announced today the
availability of SpeechNet(R) Logistics, a new generation of speech
applications for the warehousing and logistics marketplace.  Formerly known as
RxP, SpeechNet Logistics offers an enhanced object-oriented design that
facilitates turnkey installation, along with an upgraded Administration
Console and Prompt Manager providing improved user and management features
that increase logistics productivity.
    "Speech is being accepted as the most natural interface for hands- and
eyes-free data access in mobile environments," said Ivan Perez-Mendez, Ph.D.,
president and CEO of SyVox Corporation.  "We are seeing excitement in the
marketplace for SpeechNet Logistics because it addresses the hurdles
associated with the implementation of a speech-based solution.  SpeechNet
Logistics provides the enhanced management tools and system flexibility that
dramatically decrease implementation time."

    Turnkey Installation
    Capitalizing on SyVox's extensive experience in warehousing and logistics
operations, SpeechNet Logistics uses object-oriented design to create a more
flexible application architecture.  Via work flow objects, small information
components containing business rules that document speech dialogues, the
system can be configured to customer business practices while eliminating all
custom development.  Additional enhancements for scalability and fault
resilience provide features for customer growth or mission critical
applications.

    User-Friendly Features
    Enhancements in the Administration Console and Prompt Manager provide
improved management and user features.
    The enhanced Administration Console, with a graphical user interface,
facilitates local and remote management and reporting.  This enables customers
to configure the application to inherent business practices over a secure
remote Internet connection, using the SpeechNet Control Unit to facilitate
configuration changes.  Changes can also be made via password-controlled local
access to the SpeechNet Control Unit.  In addition, a Monitoring Module
provides productivity statistics and operation reports, such as real-time,
on-screen productivity and management reports for time and attendance.
End-of-shift reports can be run automatically and archived to use or print
later.
    An improved, industry-leading Prompt Manager extends the flexibility of
prompts available to the end user.  Using the warehouse environment as an
example, five different warehouse workers in the same application may speak
five different native languages.  The enhanced Prompt Manager provides
customers with the flexibility to change the language spoken to the user and
uses a true translation feature that allows for simultaneous multi-language
translation between users.  The system currently supports English, Dutch,
French, German and Spanish.

    More on SpeechNet Applications
    SyVox provides standardized, market-specific applications, complemented by
third-party hardware and accessories.  SyVox SpeechNet(R) Applications provide
standard, yet configurable speech-based solutions to aid the performance of
mobile workers, requiring minimal customer effort at implementation.
    SyVox's anchor product, SpeechNet Logistics, includes modules tailored for
warehousing and logistics workers with mobile tasks -- such as picking,
put-away, cross-docking and cycle-counting -- where it is optimal for the
worker to function with hands and eyes free from paper and hand-held
terminals, improving productivity, accuracy and safety.  An interactive
speech-based solution, SpeechNet Logistics enables warehouse workers to hear
instructions through a headset earpiece and to communicate verbally with the
data management system through a wireless network.  SpeechNet Logistics is
easy for management to deploy and requires no end-user knowledge of computers.