IBM and Kolvox Enter into Speech Recognition Relationship

TORONTO, August 4, 1995...In an aggressive move to advance the market for
voice recognition technology, IBM today announced new distribution and
development relationships with Kolvox Communications Inc., a leading
speech product distributor and application developer. Together, the IBM
and Kolvox relationship creates the largest worldwide distribution network
devoted to the sales and support of speech recognition products for
personal computers.

Kolvox will distribute the entire family of IBM VoiceType products via its
worldwide network of 300 resellers and, in addition, will port its two
most popular voice-enabled applications, OfficeTALK and LawTALK, to IBM's
award-winning VoiceType Dictation for OS/2 Warp and Windows. The two
companies will also pursue a variety of other opportunities including the
development of speech recognition interface technology that will promote
increased ease of use for IBM's speech recognition products.

"Through this unique partnership, we will dramatically increase our base of
speech resellers and we will add two highly regarded speech applications
to the VoiceType family," said Jan Winston, IBM's worldwide speech systems
manager. "Combining Kolvox's expertise in distribution and development
with IBM's VoiceType speech recognition platform will make high-accuracy
voice-based solutions available to more people than ever before."

"We are very excited by the prospect of working with IBM given the
tremendous commitment they have made to speech technology," said Isaac
Raichyk, president and chief executive of Kolvox. "IBM VoiceType is a
superior platform for our speech recognition solutions, and we are
confident this unique partnering arrangement will have a significant
impact on the growth of speech recognition product and services."

IBM has been committed to speech recognition technology development for
more than 20 years, with a range of innovations including the
award-winning VoiceType Dictation. This combined hardware and software
solution, available for desktop or mobile PCs, transforms speech to text
with unparalleled accuracy. The VoiceType family includes specialized
vocabularies for key markets (legal, emergency medicine, radiology and
journalism) and offers the widest selection of speech platforms available
in multiple languages: Arabic, English (U.S. and U.K. versions), French,
German, Italian and Spanish.

Kolvox products utilize speech recognition to boost user productivity in
the office. Its LawTALK product is the leading speech product in the legal
marketplace. LawTALK allows legal professionals to create, edit documents,
access legal databases, and perform routine office tasks by voice.
OfficeTALK provides similar functionality for the general office. Kolvox
Communications Inc. is publicly traded on the Alberta (Canada) Stock
Exchange (ASE:KOL). LawTALK, OfficeTALK and Voice Companion are registered
trademarks of Kolvox Communications Inc.

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