OTTAWA, September 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Serious Developers of Telephony and Speech Applications Discover the Latest Benefits, Power and Ease of use of VBVOICE With the Release of VBVoice 5.6.

Pronexus Inc., a provider of standards based, IVR development Toolkits in a Visual studio .Net environment, today announced the release of VBVoice 5.6, their rapid application development environment for creating scalable and flexible telephony applications such as speech-enabled IVRs and VoIP applications. VBVoice 5.6 empowers developers to create the widest range of voice solutions by combining sophisticated call control functions with built-in speech, Web, email, fax and data communications capabilities all within an industry standard, MS Visual Studio .NET environment. Additionally, VBVoice 5.6 provides unmatched flexibility because it supports the widest array of communications protocols and standards in the industry, including speech technologies, MRCP, HMP, VoIP, SIP and Web-services. "Today's developers/programmers are looking for a multi-faceted solution when it comes to their IVR toolkit of choice. They not only want to save time and resources in the development stages of the project but project managers and company executives alike are looking for an increased ROI and time to market," said Valentin Doroga, Chief Architect, Pronexus. "This is why more and more developers are choosing VBVoice."

Interoperability:

The interoperability provided by VBVoice 5.6 with MRCP allows you to reduce development and ongoing operational cost and complexities by giving developers the ability to choose from the widest range of MRCP standard based hardware and speech engines. Moreover, as needs change, VBVoices' enhanced support for Dialogic(R) PCI and PCIe voice boards and the latest automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) engines from Nuance(R) gives developers the ability to swap one MRCP standard based component for another and leverage their existing investments.

Modularity:

VBVoice 5.6 is the only IVR Toolkit providing a standards based development platform with integrated application development and management components that significantly reduce the time, cost and complexity of creating voice solutions. Our sophisticated modular solution allowing multiple tasks to be spread out over numerous resources ensuring true failsafe, roll over controls and load balancing.

VBVoice 5.6 modular design also provides:

Enterprise level scalability VBVoice's allow your applications to grow virtually effortlessly without interruption or system downtime.

Enterprise level load balancing By assigning diverse "tasks" to distributed resources

Ensure mission critical uptime VBVoice's modular architecture allows multiple master applications to run on two or more servers, failover/switchover is completely transparent to your incoming callers. You can also create duplicate slave applications to ensure even further redundancy.

Industry Standards:

VBVoice 5.6 standards based development platform provide the strongest value proposition in the industry. For instance, development resources that may have been allocated to custom integrations or learning proprietary scripting can now be refocused on core application development, reducing development cost and significantly increasing time to market over competitors' offerings. "A significant hurdle to efficiently developing an IVR or other speech solutions has been the complexity of creating applications, and learning curve necessary to become proficient with proprietary scripting languages," said Hiroshi Shibayama, CEO CBA Japan (Pronexus Asian partner) "With VBVoice 5.6 anyone familiar with MS Visual Studio .NET can create and deploy telephony-voice applications, in minutes. Thanks to VBVoices' GUI based interface, MRCP integration; we're seeing people who have never written a line of code before create robust IVR voice applications on-time and within budget."

Pricing and Availability

VBVoice 5.6 is now available. For information or to download a free evaluation version, please visit our website at http://www.pronexus.com . For pricing details, contact marketing@pronexus.com

About Pronexus

Since 1993, Pronexus has delivered proven voice applications and development tools that streamline business processes. Enterprises, Independent Software Vendors, Service Providers and Developers rely on Pronexus to help them integrate voice with business systems that include unified communications, customer relationship management and field service automation systems. Let us show you how we can help you reduce the time, cost and complexity of deploying speech and telephony technology by visiting our web site: http://www.pronexus.com.

For ScreenShot of VBVoice 5.6 please go to : http://www.pronexus.com/english/View.asp?x=314

For further information: Pronexus: Tim Lawlor, Marketing Manager, Pronexus Inc., +1-613-271-8989 ext.541 or just say "tim", Tim.Lawlor@pronexus.com; VBVoice - Japan, CBA: Hiroshi Shibayama, CEO, pronexus@cba-japan.com, +81-46-821-3362, Fax: +81-46-821-3306, http://www.cba-japan.com

For further information: Pronexus: Tim Lawlor, Marketing Manager, Pronexus Inc., +1-613-271-8989 ext.541 or just say "tim", Tim.Lawlor@pronexus.com; VBVoice - Japan, CBA: Hiroshi Shibayama, CEO, pronexus@cba-japan.com, +81-46-821-3362, Fax: 81-46-821-3306,