June 21, 2001

VoiceAge's SPOTXDE™ beta tests confirms market potential 3G–UMTS multimedia content creation software surpasses initial requirements

Montreal, June 21th 2001—VoiceAge Corporation of Montréal today announced that its latest product, SPOTXDE™ surpassed all initial quality requirement tests according to its intended clients. General public launch and additional details are scheduled for early 4th quarter 2001.
SPOTXDE™ is the first 3G-UMTS compatible multimedia content creation software that empowers its users to easily clip and playback web content over wireless handsets based on shared telecommunication standards.

"With everything that was written and said about 3G over the last few years, we are delighted with the actual results delivered by SPOTXDE™ family of products" said Laurent Amar vice president Strategic Planning and Business Alliances "The know-how of our research and development team was, once again, a deciding factor. Our voice compression technology and the IPR associated with it are bound to be at the core of virtually all wireless 3G phones worldwide by 2005" concluded Mr. Amar. About SPOTXDE™

SPOTXDE™ is the first high quality, low bit-rate vocal content creation software especially designed to enable 3G-UMTS compatible wireless handsets to control the message. This application was designed with increased interactivity and optimization of the 3G experience in mind. Installing this solution will enable users to add a new dimension to their wireless communication device on the spot.

About VoiceAge

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.