About Newfound Communications

Newfound Communications, Inc. For additional information regarding
Newfound Communications visit their web site at www.

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The Plum VoiceXML 2. Plum's customers include Blue Cross/Blue Shield, PNY
Technologies, and the State of New York.plumvoiceportals .

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Headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, Plum's
VoiceXML interpreters, applications, and gateways serve as the core of
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Computer Telephony (CT) solutions
for enterprises of all sizes. The language follows all of the structural
rules of Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is designed to
improve the functionality of the World Wide Web with semantics that
support the creation of interactive speech applications.x IVR platform supports a variety of
enterprise applications, from standard touch-tone IVR to advanced
speech-driven solutions. The proprietary system automatically provides specially
controlled re-translations, or "back-translations ," of input sentences,
lending confidence that the translation says what you mean. Spoken Translation , Inc.

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Wizzard has achieved global recognition
because of its expertise with voice communication whether it is via PC
or telephone.rxtalks.com). Behind the scenes, multiple technologies work together; speech
recognition, machine translation, text-to-speech, and STI's unique user
interfaces are tightly integrated with proprietary word and phrase
databases.

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"Terakeet's
strong customer base, multi -vertical expertise and dynamic development
staff make them an ideal Vocalocity VAR," says James Loeber , VP of
Business Development for Newfound Communications.

About Vocalocity

Vocalocity provides OEM software components and tools that ease
the adoption and ongoing support of standards for open telephony. Plum also provides support for
telecom integration with a variety of Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
systems. Additional information on
MedivoxRx can be found at www.

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"The Master VAR agreement enables Vocalocity to deliver
its OEM software to more solution providers faster."
Newfound is now delivering the Vocalocity Voice Browser, as well
as Vocalocity's suite of GUI development and management tools.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PITTSBURGH ----Wizzard Software
(OTCBB:WIZD) announced today that The Plum Group, Inc.
Plum's platform software provides full support for VoiceXML 2.0
applications.
Conservatively priced to allow small and mid-sized companies to
afford state-of-the-art IVR solutions, Plum's offerings are used by a
wide variety of enterprise and call centers with high call volumes, as
well as Value Added Resellers that support a similar enterprise
customer base. Mark
Seligman says, "Converser represents an exciting breakthrough for both the
speech and translation industries: multimodal interpreting systems can
improve communications not only for healthcare, but in customer service,
business-to-business , education, diplomacy, government activities, personal
relationships, and in many other areas.SpokenTranslation .

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VoiceXML provides a high-level programming interface to speech and
telephony resources for application developers, service providers and
equipment manufacturers.0, the popular public domain standard for automated telephony.com

About Wizzard Software:

Founded in 1996, Wizzard Software has become a leader in the
speech technology application development market." Robert Aiudi, STI's business
development and sales leader, adds, "While Converser cannot and should not
always replace human interpreters, the system does provide significant
value propositions, including reduced interpreting costs, 24/7
accessibility to interpreting services, protection of privacy, transcript
generation , and verifiability. Users can monitor and correct input and translation
errors for increased accuracy and confidence.

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Vocalocity and Newfound Communications Enter Master VAR Agreement to Accelerate Service Provider Adoption of VoiceXML

"Newfound offers extreme technical expertise and in-depth
knowledge of Vocalocity software, as well as the various speech
technologies that are supported," said John Hibel, VP of Marketing for
Vocalocity. Plum VoiceXML gateway software fully supports VXML
2.
Spoken Translation, Inc.

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Among the Vocalocity extension points that Newfound has developed is a
packaged integration with LumenVox's Speech Recognition Engine (SRE),
support for Nuance 8.
Based in Atlanta, GA, Vocalocity is privately held with funding
from Sutter Hill Ventures, Five Paces Ventures , Imlay Investments,
Georgia Tech's ATDC Seed Capital Fund, and Atlanta Technology Angels. By
working with Newfound, companies and developers bypass the largest
impediment to creating speech-driven applications - the proper
utilization of large complex grammars. Core features include 24x7x365 reliability,
ease of setup and administration, and ease of integration with
existing IT infrastructure and data. "Their philosophy of offering exceptional
products at compelling prices matches our own, making this
relationship a winning combination for Wizzard, for Plum and most
importantly, their customers. Established in 2000,
MedivoxRx is the originator of "Rex", the talking prescription pill
bottle, which "talks " to the patient allowing them to distinguish what
type of medication is in the bottle and hear critical information on
dosage amounts and refill parameters.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

ATLANTA----Vocalocity, a leading
provider of standards-enabling software for open telephony, today
announced a Master VAR agreement with Newfound Communications
(www. More information on Wizzard
Software can be found on the Investor's Page at
www.wizzardsoftware.

VXML is designed to create audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input , recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed-initiative conversations.

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Newfound's first reseller customer as a Vocalocity Master VAR is
Terakeet, a developer of voice automation solutions. Free
from the complexity of developing and maintaining support for
VoiceXML, CCXML, and other evolving standards, Vocalocity customers
can concentrate their internal resources on building competitive
advantage.

And if speech
recognition or translation errors are found, they can be easily corrected
via unique Speech Cues and Meaning Cues technology.

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" Ervin notes that Natural Voices was
chosen for "the high quality of the voices, the processor efficiency
of the voices, and solid Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
support.
These statements relate to future events or our future financial
performance.

PRESS RELEASE Spoken Translation Inc. to Unveil World's First System for Interactive Speech-to-Speech and Text-to-Speech Translation at SpeechTek 2005

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Contact
Michael O'Keefe at mokeefe@vocalocity. For Newfound's customers, the
combination of available grammar management software, technology and
expertise provides unparalleled value; speeding voice application
development , cutting development costs, improving applications and
increasing customer satisfaction.

Wizzard Software Chosen by The Plum Group to Supply AT+T Natural Voices Linux Telephony Version for Plum's VoiceXML IVR Platform

For more information about Plum, visit:
http://www.com. Converser also enables communication through multiple
modes of data entry: in addition to speech recognition, you can also use
handwriting recognition technology, touch-screen keyboards, or standard
keyboards.

About Spoken Translation , Inc.

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Legal Notice

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
"Forward-looking Statements" as defined in the Private Securities
litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release.

Voice XML is a now standard endorsed and maintained by the W3C (World Wide Web consortium).

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compliant, application-ready Voice Browser, to other solution
providers . VoiceXML is
expected to expand access to the Internet through telephones and other
devices using both speech and ordinary touch-tone user interfaces. Wizzard's successes have led to expanding opportunities
in both the government and commercial sectors.

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net), a leading speech solution provider.newfoundcomm . There are important risk factors that could cause actual
results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements,
including, but not limited to risks associated with changes in general
economic and business conditions, actions of our competitors, the
extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for
our services, the time and expense involved in such development
activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services,
changes in our business strategies and acts of terror against the
United States. STI Founder and CEO Dr.) with which you can speak
into a microphone in one language and then hear the computer pronounce a
translated version in another language -- a version you're confident is
accurate, since you've been able to monitor and correct its progress at
several stages.

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The
arrangement takes Newfound's long-standing partnership with Vocalocity
to the next level - enabling them to license the entire suite of
Vocalocity software components and tools, including its VoiceXML 2. We disclaim any
intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise. STI's
first vertical application of its Converser system, Converser for
Healthcare , allows people who don't speak the same language to hold
wide-ranging health-related conversations in real time, without a human
interpreter.

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"Terakeet will
leverage Vocalocity to offer a cost competitive solution while
addressing their customer's demand for technical flexibility.

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com for more information on
reselling Vocalocity. (STI) will be
showcasing the world's first system for interactive speech-to-speech and
text-to-speech translation at SpeechTek 2005, August 1st through August
4th , at the Marriott Marquis in New York City (www.SpeechTek.com) creates groundbreaking software systems for
real-time cross-lingual communication.

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Vocalocity, which is Designed for OEM(TM), gives Newfound the
ability to enhance, extend, and customize its software to meet
demanding requirements and provide service providers with an unheard
of level of control in the competitive value added reseller space.
Reliable, flexible, and easy-to-deploy Plum solutions integrate with
all common telecom systems and databases while offering revolutionary
price/performance.

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5 speech recognition software , and SIP. offers technology, tools, and
professional services to fuel the speech recognition revolution .
"We are excited to have The Plum Group as a customer and are
pleased that they chose AT+T Natural Voices as a component in their
IVR offerings," said Bruce Phifer, Wizzard General Manager of
Business /Market Development."

About Plum Voice Portals:

Plum is a leading provider of enterprise -class, open standard
products for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Computer Telephony
(CT ) solutions. Wizzard architects
solutions to business problems using its expertise in consulting,
speech development tools and building speech based applications for
the Desktop and Internet.

Its mission is to enable
wide-ranging conversations across language barriers by building intuitive
software solutions that combine automatic translation, speech recognition,
speech synthesis, and its own proprietary technology. Additional languages will
become available in 2006.

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has selected
Wizzard's AT+T Natural Voices for Linux Server Edition Software
Development Kit offering for use as a component of Plum's VoiceXML 2. "AT+T
Natural Voices has excellent price performance when compared to other
TTS engines on the marketplace. In April of 2004,
Wizzard acquired MedivoxRx Technologies ."

What is an interactive speech-to-speech/multimodal translation system? It's
software (running on a Tablet PC, Laptop, etc.
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"Text To Speech (TTS) is an essential part of modern day VoiceXML
and IVR systems," said Matt Ervin, Managing Director of Plum.

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These statements are only predictions and may differ
materially from actual future results or events.

Until now, there has been no simple, private, reliable , and inexpensive way
to initiate a cross-lingual conversation 24/7. STI's flagship
product, Converser for Healthcare, is the world's first software system for
translation of
wide-ranging spoken, typed , or handwritten conversations between speakers
of English and Spanish.