OTTAWA, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Serious Developers of Telephony and Speech Applications Discover the
Latest Benefits, Power and Ease of use of VBVOICE With the Release of
VBVoice 5.6.

Pronexus Inc., a provider of standards based, IVR development Toolkits in
a Visual studio .Net environment, today announced the release of VBVoice 5.6,
their rapid application development environment for creating scalable and
flexible telephony applications such as speech-enabled IVRs and VoIP
applications. VBVoice 5.6 empowers developers to create the widest range of
voice solutions by combining sophisticated call control functions with
built-in speech, Web, email, fax and data communications capabilities all
within an industry standard, MS Visual Studio .NET environment. Additionally,
VBVoice 5.6 provides unmatched flexibility because it supports the widest
array of communications protocols and standards in the industry, including
speech technologies, MRCP, HMP, VoIP, SIP and Web-services. "Today's
developers/programmers are looking for a multi-faceted solution when it comes
to their IVR toolkit of choice. They not only want to save time and resources
in the development stages of the project but project managers and company
executives alike are looking for an increased ROI and time to market," said
Valentin Doroga, Chief Architect, Pronexus. "This is why more and more
developers are choosing VBVoice."

Interoperability:

The interoperability provided by VBVoice 5.6 with MRCP allows you to
reduce development and ongoing operational cost and complexities by giving
developers the ability to choose from the widest range of MRCP standard based
hardware and speech engines. Moreover, as needs change, VBVoices' enhanced
support for Dialogic(R) PCI and PCIe voice boards and the latest automated
speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) engines from Nuance(R)
gives developers the ability to swap one MRCP standard based component for
another and leverage their existing investments.

Modularity:

VBVoice 5.6 is the only IVR Toolkit providing a standards based
development platform with integrated application development and management
components that significantly reduce the time, cost and complexity of
creating voice solutions. Our sophisticated modular solution allowing
multiple tasks to be spread out over numerous resources ensuring true
failsafe, roll over controls and load balancing.

VBVoice 5.6 modular design also provides:

Enterprise level scalability VBVoice's allow your applications to grow
virtually effortlessly without interruption or system downtime.

Enterprise level load balancing By assigning diverse "tasks" to
distributed resources

Ensure mission critical uptime VBVoice's modular architecture allows
multiple master applications to run on two or more servers,
failover/switchover is completely transparent to your incoming callers. You
can also create duplicate slave applications to ensure even further
redundancy.

Industry Standards:

VBVoice 5.6 standards based development platform provide the strongest
value proposition in the industry. For instance, development resources that
may have been allocated to custom integrations or learning proprietary
scripting can now be refocused on core application development, reducing
development cost and significantly increasing time to market over
competitors' offerings. "A significant hurdle to efficiently developing an
IVR or other speech solutions has been the complexity of creating
applications, and learning curve necessary to become proficient with
proprietary scripting languages," said Hiroshi Shibayama, CEO CBA Japan
(Pronexus Asian partner) "With VBVoice 5.6 anyone familiar with MS Visual
Studio .NET can create and deploy telephony-voice applications, in minutes.
Thanks to VBVoices' GUI based interface, MRCP integration; we're seeing
people who have never written a line of code before create robust IVR voice
applications on-time and within budget."

Pricing and Availability

VBVoice 5.6 is now available. For information or to download a free
evaluation version, please visit our website at http://www.pronexus.com . For
pricing details, contact marketing@pronexus.com

About Pronexus

Since 1993, Pronexus has delivered proven voice applications and
development tools that streamline business processes. Enterprises,
Independent Software Vendors, Service Providers and Developers rely on
Pronexus to help them integrate voice with business systems that include
unified communications, customer relationship management and field service
automation systems. Let us show you how we can help you reduce the time, cost
and complexity of deploying speech and telephony technology by visiting our
web site: http://www.pronexus.com.

For ScreenShot of VBVoice 5.6 please go to :
http://www.pronexus.com/english/View.asp?x=314

For further information:
    Pronexus:
    Tim Lawlor, Marketing Manager,
    Pronexus Inc.,
    +1-613-271-8989 ext.541 or just say "tim",
    Tim.Lawlor@pronexus.com;

    VBVoice - Japan, CBA:
    Hiroshi Shibayama, CEO,
    pronexus@cba-japan.com,
    +81-46-821-3362,
    Fax: +81-46-821-3306,
    http://www.cba-japan.com