June 11, 2002

VoiceAge Provides Voice Codec for RealNetworks’ RealSystem
ACELP®.net keeps its status as leading low bit rate
voice compression codec

Montreal, Tuesday June 11th 2002 —VoiceAge Corporation today announced the continuation of a licensing agreement with RealNetworks®, Inc to provide voice codec (encoder and decoder) technology. Building on past collaboration, RealNetworks will continue to distribute VoiceAge's leading codec, ACELP®.net, as the core low bit rate speech codec for the RealSystem®

“RealNetworks was essential in making VoiceAge’s ACELP®.net a de facto standard in streaming voice on the net,” said Laurent Amar, VoiceAge Vice president strategic planning and business alliances. “ACELP®.net has been experienced by millions of consumers since being incorporated into RealAudio® in 1997. We are confident that this latest agreement will further support our dissemination objectives.”

“Renewing our technology agreement with VoiceAge allows the RealSystem to continue offering the best in very low bit rate speech coding,” said Gary S. Greenbaum, Senior Director, RealNetworks, Inc.

About VoiceAge Corporation.

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.