STYLUS INNOVATION RELEASES 32-BIT OLE CONTROLS FOR WINDOWS TELEPHONY

New York, NY (June 26, 1995) - Stylus Innovation, Inc., today announced the
Beta release of Visual Voice for Win32, a 32-bit OLE Control version of
its award-winning Visual Voice telephony software toolkit. Visual Voice
for Win32 will work with any OLE Control compatible environment such as
Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Access, the upcoming release of Microsoft
Visual Basic, and many other tools that will support OLE Controls.

Using Visual Voice, developers can create a variety of applications
including fax-on-demand, Interactive Voice Response (e.g. Touch-Tone
banking), and voice mail. Applications developed with Visual Voice can
interact with practically every available data source and network because
of the extensive third party and built-in support available for the
development environments that support OLE. Typical business systems built
with Visual Voice include 24-hour customer order services, benefits
enrollment hotlines, and brochure fax-on-demand systems.

Open and Robust Architecture for Telephony Development

OLE Controls are the next generation of custom controls or VBXs, made
popular by Microsoft's Visual Basic. With OLE, Microsoft has defined an
industry standard mechanism for extending the functionality of application
development environments. Microsoft has announced that all its tools will
support 32-bit OLE Controls across its Windows 95 and Windows NT
environments. Many other development tools, including Borland's Delphi and
Powersoft's PowerBuilder, will also provide support for OLE Controls. By
embracing OLE, Visual Voice will let more developers than ever before
easily add telephony to their Windows applications.

"Stylus Innovation recognizes that OLE technology is where the future
lies," said Cameron Myhrvold, Marketing Manager for the Microsoft
Developer Division. "Visual Voice is a great example of a powerful
component for building mission-critical applications such as telephony,
and because it's an OLE control, it will work across many Microsoft
platforms in the very near future." Visual Voice for Win32 leverages the
robust preemptive multi-tasking of Windows NT and Windows 95 to support
over 24 simultaneous phone line connections per PC.

"The Windows NT and Windows 95 platforms are especially attractive for
complex industrial strength applications," said Mike Cassidy, President of
Stylus Innovation. "These applications include client/server telephony
applications and call center systems that handle high call volumes and
send incoming call notifications to workstations over a LAN:. At Medicon
(Northbrook, IL), a Visual Voice application on Windows NT will use
Automatic Number Identification/Dialed Number Identification Service
(ANI/DNIS) to route all incoming calls to the appropriate service
representative. According to Shane Boyett of Medicon, "Windows NT and
Visual Voice provide an incredibly robust platform for telephony
application development." Medicon is a leading medical resource management
company, specializing in the administration of diagnostic imaging services
for managed care organizations.

Easy-to-Use, High-Level Telephony Development Tool

Visual Voice allows someone with no telephony experience to develop
sophisticated telephony applications. Visual Voice provides high-level
interfaces to all of the following functions:

* answering inbound calls
* placing outbound calls
* prompting for Touch-Tone input once calls are established
* playing and recording voice files
* sending and receiving faxes
* integrating with a PBX to perform call control functions such
  as transferring and conferencing.

Included in the Visual Voice toolkit is the Voice Workbench, a graphical
tool to visually define the telephony components of an application and
generate the corresponding application logic. The Workbench is used to
create and maintain all telephony objects including voice prompts, menus,
and files. In this release, the Voice Workbench has been enhanced to
generate source code for OLE Control method calls.

In addition to the OLE Control interface, Visual Voice for Win32 provides a
32-bit DLL interface. Accordingly, any 32-bit development environment that
supports DLLs will be able to take advantage of the telephony features of
Visual Voice.

Stylus Innovation's Visual Voice for Win32 Beta is currently available for
Windows NT. A 32-bit Windows 95 version of Visual Voice will be available
soon after the release of Windows 95. Pricing for the Windows NT version
starts at $795, and pricing for the Windows 95 version starts at $495.
There are no runtime fees.

Today, Visual Voice is used by over 2500 developers world wide on tens of
thousands of successful systems. In Dataquest's 1994 North American
Telecommunications Report, Stylus Innovation ranked second in terms of the
of the number of IVR systems shipped. Stylus' market share of 9.6% was
just behind AT&T's share of 11.3%. Visual Voice users include over 25% of
the Fortune 500.

Stylus Innovation, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) is dedicated to the development of
easy-to-use tools for Windows Telephony. Stylus has developed several
other innovative hardware and software products since it was founded in
1990. Stylus can be reached at 617-621-9545. Fax, 617-621-7862. Internet,
info@stylus.com and http://www.stylus.com.
 
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