May 31, 2002

VoiceAge’s SPOTxde™'n'GO opens the door to thousands
of hours of new audio content compatible for
Franklin’s eBookMan® portable devices

Montreal, Canada, May 31st 2002 —VoiceAge Corporation and Franklin Electronic Publishers concluded their second agreement in the last 18 months with the official launch today of SPOTxde™'n'GO for eBookMan®, a desktop encoding tool, either for professional or personal use that makes any .wav and .avi audio files compatible with eBookMan® operating system 2.01 or greater.

SPOTxde™'n'GO for eBookMan® features an easy-to-use interface and requires only a few simple steps to select and encode audio content. Built around the ACELP® core voice compression technology that is pivotal to AudibleReady® devices and media platforms such as Real Media® and Windows Media® Architectures, SPOTxde™'n'GO for eBookMan® bridges the Internet audio content and Franklin's eBookMan® portable devices.

“SPOTxde™'n'GO for eBookMan® is the confirmation that the handheld industry is seeking to broaden the scope of interaction between users and their device”, said Catharie Béchamp, Vice President Sales and Marketing for VoiceAge. “SPOTxde™'n'GO meets the objective it was set out to achieve by rapidly multiplying high quality audio sources and offering alternatives to accustomed syndicated content”, concluded Ms. Béchamp

“Finding a partner that could deliver a plug-in type software that can easily and rapidly format audio files for our eBookMan® platform was a significant milestone that will benefit content creators and users alike” said Toshihide Hokari, Director of Product Management for Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc. “This latest initiative is yet another demonstration of Franklin’s desire and determination to meet the increasing demands for high quality diversified audio content” added Mr Hokari.

Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (AMEX:FEP), the worldwide market leader in handheld electronic books, is the designer and distributor of the award winning multimedia eBookMan® platform. The Company is the exclusive producer and distributor of the ROLODEX® Electronics brand of personal information management products. Franklin has sold more than 27,000,000 electronic books and currently publishes more than 200 titles, including dictionaries and bilingual dictionaries; encyclopedias; Bibles; entertainment titles; education and tutorial publications; and medical reference works. Franklin products, available in sixteen languages, are sold in 45,000 retail outlets worldwide, through catalogs and on line at franklin.com. The Company has sales and distribution subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Benelux countries, Canada, Australia and Mexico, and production management offices in Tokyo and Hong Kong. ROLODEX® is a registered trademark of Berol Corporation, a subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.

VoiceAge Corporation develops narrowband and wideband low bit-rate audio and multimedia compression solutions for wireless 2G, 2.5G, 3G, and voice-over-packet networks. As experienced daily by hundreds of millions of users worldwide, VoiceAge's standard and proprietary solutions, built on the world-renowned ACELP® technology, ensure unsurpassed multimedia experience. VoiceAge was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

VoiceAge, SPOTxde and ACELP are trademarks of VoiceAge Corporation. For more information about VoiceAge, visit www.voiceage.com.