December
9, 2002
VoiceAge SPOT xde™
Pro adds new dimension to
GSM services worldwide.
Latest additions give truly global market penetration
to content creation software
Montreal, Canada,
Monday December 9, 2002— VoiceAge Corporation
today unveiled, the latest version of SPOT xde™
Pro, its industry-leading multimedia content
creation tool. The key additional feature of
the newest product is its 3GPP (Third Generation
Partnership Project) audio standard .AMR output
file format. The feature enables all GSM subscribers
worldwide to experience the uniqueness of high-quality
multimedia content over mobile phones, such
as the Nokia 7650, through newly deployed MMS
services.
SPOT xde™ Pro is compatible with worldwide
GSM operators and Japan's NTT DoCoMo FOMA i-motion
3G service. "The introduction of SPOT xde™
Pro will promote fast deployment of AMR multimedia
content for 3G services said VoiceAge Corporation
president, Laurent Amar."
The latest version also allows encoding with
the ACELP®.net codec, making SPOT xde™
Pro 2.6 capable of encoding content not only
for portable phones but for PC's as well, using
either Windows Media® Player or RealPlayer®.
About AMR
The AMR (Adaptive Multi-rate), mandatory 3G
speech compression codec, is based on VoiceAge
world-renowned ACELP® technology. It will
also pave the way to the introduction of AMR
wideband technology, the next revolution in
speech quality for mobile phones. Compared to
narrowband telephone speech, the low-frequency
enhancement from 50 to 200 Hz contributes to
increased naturalness, presence and comfort.
The high-frequency extension from 3400 to 7000
Hz provides better fricative differentiation
and therefore higher intelligibility. Users
can download free of charge the SPOT xde™
AMR Decoder (http://www.voiceage.com/products/spotamr-decoder.asp)
to playback on their PC audio content generated
by MMS-enabled phone or SPOT xde™ Pro,
thus facilitating communications between both
the wireless and PC worlds.
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,
SPOT xde and ACELP are trademarks of VoiceAge
Corporation. For more information about VoiceAge,
visit www.voiceage.com.
For additional information contact:
André Bertrand
VoiceAge Corporation
+1.514.737-4940 ext. : 251
andreb@voicage.com
