February
12, 2003
VoiceAge to
unveil SPOT xde® Media Platform at 3GSM
World Congress. MODULAR PLATFORM RESPONDS TO
MMS DEMAND AND CONTENT NEEDS OF INDUSTRY
Montreal, Canada,
Wednesday, February 12th 2003-VoiceAge Corporation
announced today it will use the backdrop of
next week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France
to unveil and showcase its SPOT xde® Media
Platform, an advanced suite of multimedia products
for the wireless and Internet communities. The
VoiceAge SPOT xde® Media Platform is the
most complete solution the company has ever
produced.
SPOT xde® Media Platform plays a key part
in accelerating the adoption of multimedia messaging
for wireless operators and service providers,
resulting in increased revenues. In particular,
the platform facilitates the creation of rich
multimedia content for content creators as well
as facilitates the creation and playback of
multimedia messages for end users. SPOT xde®
Media Platform also solves long-standing technical
issues and increases content encoding and transcoding
capacity, thereby satisfying the most demanding
of requirements.
Because SPOT xde® Media Platform uses industry
standards such as AMR-NB and ACELP®.net
based on VoiceAge's patented technology, VoiceAge
is in the unique position to further enhance
these technologies, resulting in unsurpassed
quality for the industry.
The VoiceAge SPOT xde® Media Platform is
a modular solution, comprised of six key components:
¨SPOT xde® Core: VoiceAge's advanced
multimedia transcoding engine for the entire
SPOT xde® product line, as well as a readily
available stand-alone product for third party
OEM solutions
¨SPOT xde® Pro: A feature-rich multimedia
content encoding solution for professional content
creators
¨SPOT xde® MMS Mail: A user-friendly
and intuitive PC-based multimedia creation and
messaging solution for consumers
¨SPOT xde® MMS Web: A web-based version
of SPOT xde® MMS Mail, ideal for wireless
operator and service provider portals and web
sites
¨SPOT xde® Server: A high capacity multimedia
content transcoding server for wireless operators
and service providers
SPOT xde® Player: A free desktop multimedia
player supporting MMS messaging for 2.5G and
3G networks, as well as being complementary
to other industry standard media players
"Based on many industry analyst estimates
regarding MMS growth, which will exceed 200
million messages as early as this year, the
SPOT xde® Media Platform will readily support
and accelerate these evolving trends, thereby
generating new revenue streams for the industry,"
stated Laurent Amar President of VoiceAge Corporation.
About VoiceAge
VoiceAge capitalizes on its technology expertise
in developing best-of-breed multimedia applications,
bridging the wireless, wireline and Internet
worlds in order to improve daily communications
and access to information. Experienced daily
by hundreds of millions of users worldwide,
VoiceAge's standard and proprietary solutions,
built on the world-renowned ACELP® technology,
ensure an unsurpassed multimedia experience.
VoiceAge was founded in 1999 and has its headquarters
in Montreal, Canada.
For additional information
contact:
André Bertrand
VoiceAge
+1.514.737.4940 ext. 251
andreb@voiceage.com
VoiceAge, SPOT
xde and ACELP are registered trademarks of VoiceAge
Corporation. For more information about VoiceAge,
visit www.voiceage.com.
