Press Release

MICROSOFT AND CANTATA TECHNOLOGY INVITE DEVELOPERS TO A ONE-DAY SEMINAR ON SPEECH APPLICATIONS

NEEDHAM, Mass., April 3, 2006--Cantata Technology™, the world’s leading independent provider of enabling communications technology, established through the combination of Excel Switching Corporation and Brooktrout Technology®, announced today a series of one-day special speech developer seminars in conjunction with Microsoft. The seminars are designed to teach developers how to architect, develop and implement speech enabled applications using Visual Studio 2003 and the Microsoft Speech Server platform.

Participants will learn how this combination provides all the components necessary for building and deploying telephony (voice-only) and multi-modal (voice/visual) applications. Additionally, they will learn how the Speech Server platform builds upon the work of the open industry standard Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification to extend existing Web markup languages by adding speech recognition and prompt functionality to Web applications. Using a practical code oriented approach the sessions will cover how to architect, build and deploy applications that perform speech recognition and speech synthesis that can be accessed by telephone, cell phone, Pocket PC, Tablet PC and other devices.

Attendees will have a chance to take home tools to get them started including Cantata’s Brooktrout® TR1000™ for Microsoft Speech Server Starter Kit and a book on “Building Intelligent .Net Applications."

Speech Server Days are taking place in cities around the country, including:
• Waltham, MA - April 6, 2006
• New York, NY - April 18th, 2006
• Ft.Lauderdale, FL - May 2, 2006
• Alpharetta, GA - May 3, 2006

For more information, or to register for an event, visit: http://www.cantata.com/speechdays

Cantata Technology’s Brooktrout TR1000™ for Microsoft® Speech Server is a high-performance, easy-to-deploy telephony platform designed specially for Microsoft Speech Server. A single, orderable item, the TR1000 for Microsoft Speech Server, includes the award-winning TR1000 speech processing board, Telephony Interface Manager (TIM), drivers, configuration tools and a complete suite of management utilities.

About Cantata Technology
Cantata Technology, established in 2006 through the combination of Brooktrout Technology and Excel Switching Corporation, provides enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications applications. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, Cantata offers the broadest range of products, along with a worldwide network of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers to develop new products, introduce new services and cost-effectively transition networks to IP. Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Cantata maintains multiple locations worldwide in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information visit http://www.cantata.com/

Cantata, Cantata Technology, Brooktrout, Brooktrout Technology, TR1000, and the stylized logo with and without the term Cantata Technology are trademarks of EAS Group, Inc., the parent company of Cantata Technology, Inc., or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks mentioned in the above text are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contacts:
Cantata Technology
Geoff Spillane
Director, Corporate Communications
508-862-3091
gspillane@cantata.com

Michelle Liro
Sr. Manager, Corporate Communications
781-433-9525
mliro@cantata.com