Stuttgart, Germany, 19.10.2007 - Excelsis customer Deutsche Telekom won the Voice Award in the categroy "Best Value-Added Service" for the application "Deutsche Telekom: Preisvergleich 11864". The system has been honoured as the best voice-operated public telephone service and best cost liable speech portal with the most convincing business model.

With the help of this innovative service users are able to find out the lowest price for any product in the fields of electronics, home entertainment and computers as well as the according retailer and his telephone number. The results can be announced via telephone, mobile phone or integrated in the decision process at the point of sale.

"We congratulate our customer Deutsche Telekom on winning the Voice Award 2007", says Christian Sauter, CEO of Excelsis

The testing procedure evaluates telephone services that enable users to talk with a German speaking computer service. The service required no prior coaching in order to recognize the voice of the user.

About Voice Awards

For four years the initiative Voice Business has granted the annual Voice Awards at the Voice Days in Bonn [www.voicedays.de], one of the most renowned conventions for speech technologies. Awards in five categories are conferred for the best German speaking voice portals. This year 50 voice-operated services from Germany, Switzerland and Austria were registered, 30 qualified for the final evaluation. In June and July 2007 the applications were extensively checked, analyzed and evaluated in interviews and user tests.

About EXCELSIS

EXCELSIS is one of the worldwide leading suppliers of standard application software for speech systems. It enables companies from multiple sectors to automate their call centers. Furthermore, EXCELSIS offers software especially for the sectors of banking, digital TV, transport, suppliers, trade as well as intersectional software for information systems, customer management and help desk automation.

Companies from all sectors use EXCELSIS software, thus lowering costs [TCO] and improving service. Excelsis customers include 9Live, the city of Augsburg, Cablecom, Deutsche Telekom, EnBW, Jamba!, Medion, Orange, Swisscom, UBS and Vattenfall, to name a few examples.

EXCELSIS has partnerships with global technology suppliers such as Alcatel/Genesys, Aspect, Avaya, IBM, Microsoft, Nuance, Intervoice and Telisma. Excelsis employs over 100 staff in Stuttgart [Germany], Berne and Zurich [Switzerland], Luxembourg, Singapore, and Sydney [Australia].

Contact

EXCELSIS Business Technology AG
Lorena Bojens - Marketing
Wilhelmsplatz 8
70182 Stuttgart - Germany