March 29, 2000

Voyant Technologies Partners with VoiceAge to Provide
High-Quality Voice Streaming on the Internet

Voyant To Integrate VoiceAge’s State-of-the-Art Compression Technology, ACELP®.net, To Further Enhance Voyant’s Open and Flexible Voice Application Platform.

Westminster, Colorado and Montreal, Canada – March 29, 2000 – VoiceAge Corporation, developers of high quality compression technology for storage and streaming applications, and Voyant Technologies, the dominant platform provider for Intelligent Voice Applications, have announced a partnership that will provide Voyant’s customers with a high-quality, very high-quantity streaming solution in addition to its already extensive suite of voice applications.

"We are excited to be partnering with VoiceAge because their technology is the de facto standard in the Internet World, having been used by industry powerhouses Microsoft and RealNetworks," said Dick Shulte, Voyant’s COO. "The intent of this strategic partnership is to provide leading Internet companies with technology that will broaden their ability to provide streaming applications in greater volumes at an economical price with superior quality voice.

"The motivation behind VoiceAge partnering with Voyant is based on our desire to move ourselves one step closer to the end-user so we can better satisfy their growing needs to communicate." said Laurent Amar, Vice President Business Development of VoiceAge. "We readily identify the importance of on-going, innovative technology collaboration in the Internet industry’s fast paced evolution and we view this move as a clear signal to the market that we intend to further increase our roles as trendsetters in the areas of voice coding/encoding, voice compression and Internet-based voice applications."

About ACELP®.net

ACELP®.net is designed around the famous ACELP® technology. Since 1995, the ACELP® Technology has won 8 international standards, including Third Generation Wireless (3G). Our technology is strategically positioned in all international wireless systems (GSM EFR, TDMA, EVRC-CDMA, AMR), and is a key component to ITU G.729 and its Annexes and G.723.1 Standards for the emerging VOIP market. ACELP®.net is also a de facto standard on the Internet for low bit rate speech compression and is included in RealNetworks’ RealPlayer® and Microsoft Media Player®. It has been chosen has the Preferred Speech Codec by Audible, the premier provider of spoken word audio on the Web.

About VoiceAge Corp.

VoiceAge, leader in the field of audio compression, is well positioned to develop alternative solutions for specific customers or industries’ needs through proprietary solutions. Our success is based on our exclusive collaboration with the world notorious Speech and Audio Compression Research Group of Université de Sherbrooke, inventors of the ACELP® Technology. VoiceAge is a spin-off company of Sipro Lab Telecom Inc., better known for its voice compression technology brokerage capabilities and Université de Sherbrooke in partnership with the key inventors of the ACELP® Technology. You can visit our company web site at www.voiceage.com. About Voyant Technologies
With more than 20 years of experience, Voyant Technologies, Inc. provides the leading platform and toolbox for intelligent voice applications. Voyant’s flexible, open InnoVox platform enables web-based applications, such as customer relationship management, multipoint internet conferencing, online education and enterprise resource planning. Enabling internet companies to deliver intelligent voice to their customers and helping telephony service providers intergrate voice applications over the internet, Voyant’s mission is to embed voice into every web application. Due to its award winning internet based conferencing application, Voyant has more than 200 customers in 22 countries, including well known telecommunications service providers, internet and Fortune 500 companies.

For more information about Voyant Technologies, visit www.voyanttech.com or call
888-447-1087.

For additionnal information contact:

Voyant Technologies
Kelly Nolan
(303) 633-3280
kelly.nolan@voyanttech.com