LumenVox Receives "Product of the Year"
Award for 2005

San Diego, CA (JAN 6, 2005) — LumenVox, an innovator of speech recognition technology, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC^®)'s Internet Telephony^® magazine (www.itmag.com) has named the Speech Driven Assistant as a recipient of the 2005 Product of the Year Award. Internet Telephony has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

The Speech Driven Assistant, for Vertical's TeleVantage IP–PBX, is a complete turnkey solution. The Assistant speech–enables the call router, outbound dialing to contact lists, voicemail, IVR's and emails, providing all callers hands-free phone interactions. "We are pleased that the Speech Driven Assistant has won the Product of the Year award and feel its value growing within the speech marketplace and, most importantly, with Vertical users," said Ed Miller, President of LumenVox. The Speech Driven Assistant also allows for alternate names, nicknames, and various spellings and pronunciations to be recognized.

"Each year Internet Telephony magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. LumenVox has demonstrated to the editors of Internet Telephony that its products or services are committed to quality and innovation while addressing the real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor–in–Chief of Internet Telephony. The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 will be highlighted in the January and February 2006 issues of Internet Telephony magazine.