April 2, 1996

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Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Expands Deployment Of Intellivoice Voice Activated Dialing System TalkDial(SM) Service Now Available in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Markets

ATLANTA, GA -- Intellivoice Communications, Inc. is pleased to announce that Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile has deployed its EasyDial(TM) Voice Activated Dialing software and equipment to serve customers in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore markets.

With this announcement, Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile has completed the second phase of a planned network-wide roll-out of the new service, which features a new user friendly and highly accurate speech recognition interface for voice activated dialing.

The Intellivoice EasyDial software enables Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile TalkDial(SM) customers to place a call from any type of cellular phone simply by speaking the number to be dialed or by speaking a name from their personal directory. The Intellivoice EasyDial system also features a unique self-learning speech recognition error detection and correction technique (patent pending) that improves the performance and accuracy of the EasyDial application for individual subscribers by tracking and adapting to their dialing patterns and voice characteristics over time.

"TalkDial gives our customers the convenience and added safety of being able to dial a phone number simply by speaking," says Gary Schulman, president of Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile in the Washington/ Baltimore region. "Now customers can easily and conveniently conduct their business and personal matters without having to manually dial each phone number into the keypad."

TalkDial service is currently available in Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile's northern New England, upstate New York, and Washington/ Baltimore markets. The service is scheduled to be generally available to all Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile subscribers by mid-year.

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