LONDON, September 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Voice-to-Text Application is Compatible With Avaya Modular Messaging Helps Businesses Communicate More Efficiently by Converging Voice and Text

LONDON, September 11 /PRNewswire/ --

SpinVox, a global leader in voice to content messaging, announced that its Voice-to-Text services are compliant with telephony and messaging solutions from Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.

Voice-to-Text helps businesses and their employees work more productively and efficiently by allowing them to receive voicemails in text form. The application now is compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya Modular Messaging.

"Achieving this next step in our deepening relationship with Avaya and their business partners is an important facet to our Unified Communications (UC) strategy," said Christina Domecq, CEO of SpinVox. "Through the DevConnect program, Avaya customers will have access to the efficiency and utility of the Voice-to-Text service. We anticipate a lot of `eureka` moments as companies discover the power of real visual voicemail."

SpinVox is a member of the Avaya DevConnect program - an initiative to develop, market and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology and extend the value of a company's investment in its network.

As a Platinum member of the program, SpinVox is eligible to submit products for compatibility testing by the Avaya Solution Interoperability and Test Lab in Lincroft, N.J. There a team of Avaya engineers develops a comprehensive test plan for each application to verify whether it is Avaya compliant. Doing so ensures businesses can confidently add best-in-class capabilities to their network without having to replace their existing infrastructure-speeding deployment of new applications and reducing both network complexity and implementation costs.

"By offering compliance testing to the many innovative companies like SpinVox who are members of our DevConnect program, Avaya promotes fully interoperable solutions that help businesses unleash powerful new possibilities," said Eric Rossman, vice president, developer relations and technical alliances, Avaya. "They are able to use Intelligent Communications to connect employees and customers to information from wherever they are, over whatever device they have available - getting more out of their multivendor network and delivering new value to their bottom line."

About Avaya

Avaya delivers Intelligent Communications solutions that help companies transform their businesses to achieve marketplace advantage. More than 1 million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500(R), use Avaya solutions for IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers and Communications-Enabled Business Processes. Avaya Global Services provides comprehensive service and support for companies, small to large. For more information visit the Avaya Web site: http://www.avaya.com. For more information on the Avaya DevConnect program, visit http://www.avaya.com/devconnect.

About SpinVox

SpinVox(R) is the world's largest private speech technology company and has brought together the two most popular methods of communication - voice and text - and created a new category of messaging called Voice-to- Content(TM). Its award-winning service is now making everyday communication simpler and more powerful, creating new recurring revenues for wireless, landline, cable and VOIP carriers as well as service providers and web partners. Spinvox has already launched its service with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain and Livejournal and announced a deal with Skype. As a managed service provider any network or service can rapidly and cost-effectively implement SpinVox.

At the heart of SpinVox is its Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS is now being rolled-out across five continents in English, French, Spanish and German - with a fifth language, Portuguese, under development.

For Media Enquiries: Jane Henry SpinVox Global PR Director T: +44(0)20-7965-2000 jane.henry@spinvox.com Andrew Scales, Porter Novelli for SpinVox T: +44(0)20-7853-2208 M: +44(0)7872-827-861 Andrew.scales@porternovelli.co.uk

For Media Enquiries: Jane Henry, SpinVox Global PR Director, T: +44(0)20-7965-2000, jane.henry@spinvox.com ; Andrew Scales, Porter Novelli for SpinVox, T: +44(0)20-7853-2208, M: +44(0)7872-827-861, Andrew.scales@porternovelli.co.uk