November 24th 2004

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Eicon Networks Corporation, a global provider of communication products for networked business applications, announced today that have signed a partnership agreement.

Eicon Networks, a leading manufacturer of networking products, together with its Eicon Technology Partner Program, can offer robust, flexible and highly reliable solutions. Eicon’s Diva Server Cards are based on open standards and allow servers to empower third parties applications.

Loquendo, a world-leading provider of voice technology, offers a broad range of innovative solutions to create voice services, Call Centers automation, voice automation features in the CRM applications, Intranet and Unified Messaging and the creation of info mobility solutions.

Through the partnership with Loquendo, Eicon enters the promising market of the automated voice applications for the small and medium businesses. Loquendo’s clients can now take advantage of the powerful Diva Server Technology. Eicon and Loquendo offer their clients the software to easily integrate Loquendo speech Technology within Diva Server SDK 3.4.

Loquendo offers a full range of technological components such as: Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Speaker Verifier, VoiceXML Interpreter and VoxNauta, the Speech Platform to rapidly and easily create best-of-breed solutions in 16 languages. Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish in both male and female voices.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years of R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 16 languages and 35 voices — with more coming soon.

From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.

About Eicon Networks
Eicon Networks is a world-leading provider of reliable communication products for networked business applications, secure remote access and virtual private networks. The company’s portfolio includes a full range of products for applications in branch office and PC secure connectivity, voice, speech and conferencing, voice over IP, POS and financial clearing networks, unified messaging and fax serving.

Eicon distributes, markets and supports its products in more than 80 countries through a network of channel partners, telecommunication companies (telcos), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Information about Eicon Networks is available at www.eicon.com.