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Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Adds VoiceBox Technologies to Client Roster

Posted on: Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 09:00 CST

SEATTLE, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Waggener Edstrom Worldwide today announced that VoiceBox(R) Technologies Inc., providers of the world's first conversational language platform enabling high-performance voice search of rich digital information, has joined its client portfolio. VoiceBox selected Waggener Edstrom Worldwide to develop a unique and diverse communications program for building brand recognition and market leadership for its conversational speech applications and patent-pending platform technology.

"VoiceBox Technologies is breaking exciting new ground in the telematics, cellular, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and home and entertainment markets. It's just the kind of company that we seek to work with at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide," said Erica Beyer, vice president of the northwest region at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. "We're thrilled to be working with companies that are pioneering new products in the pursuit of improving people's lives through technology. We look forward to helping VoiceBox tell its stories to key influentials and promote adoption of its killer applications in the market."

"We were looking for a like-minded innovator as a partner, and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide demonstrated a unique approach to telling our story to the right audiences, which is a perfect fit for our vision for growing our presence in the market," said Tom Freeman, vice president of marketing at VoiceBox Technologies. "We feel Waggener Edstrom Worldwide's unique programs and fresh ideas will help bring us to the next level in the mobile voice search industry."

About VoiceBox Technologies

VoiceBox offers the world's first conversational voice search platform, called the VoiceBox Mobile Voice Platform, enabling breakthrough conversational search and navigation of digital content from any mobile device and from any IP network. A key differentiator for VoiceBox's Mobile Voice Platform is that it consistently achieves a remarkable level of task completion across multiple applications by not only interpreting the words but also construing the context and intention behind the words spoken by the user. Searches and queries are dynamically generated based on user intent and the current context. The Mobile Voice Platform runs on various embedded, desktop and server systems for applications such as music and media, navigation and driving directions, directory and hands-free dialing, and control over digital devices.

VoiceBox is headquartered in Kirkland, Wash., and develops rich voice search applications for makers of mobile products in the home media and entertainment, mobile phone, VoIP and telematics markets. More information is available through the Web site found at http://www.voicebox.com/.

About Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

Waggener Edstrom Worldwide provides public relations services using its Innovation Communications(SM) methodology optimized for global organizations that drive and are affected by innovation and change. The agency's approach facilitates the acceptance of new ideas and helps clients tell the stories that alter the way people think, act and buy around the world. Founded in 1983, the agency has nearly 600 employees with U.S. headquarters in Seattle, European headquarters in London and Asian headquarters in Hong Kong. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide partners with pioneering and creative clients, including Affymetrix, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), MasterCard International, Microsoft Corp. and T-Mobile USA. More information may be found at http://www.waggeneredstrom.com/.

NOTE: Waggener Edstrom is a registered service mark of Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Inc. in the United States and other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Inc.

CONTACT: press only, Amy Radich of Waggener Edstrom, +1-503-443-7000, oramyr@WaggenerEdstrom.com

Web site: http://www.voicebox.com/

Web site: http://www.waggeneredstrom.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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