Europolitan Vodafone and PipeBeach expand voice portal - Use your own voice to personalise your mobile phone

Europolitan Vodafone's customers can now use their own voices to listen to and download the most popular ringing tones directly from Europolitan Vodafone's Voice Portal implemented on PipeBeach's VoiceXML platform speechWeb.

Two popular services have been combined to create additional capabilities for Europolitan Vodafone's customers. Europolitan Vodafone's Voice Portal is continuing to expand its service offering and now includes downloadable, ready-to-use ringing tones among its current selection of news, programme listings, wine tips and much more.

Europolitan Vodafone's customers can choose from a multitude of different tunes in ringing tone format, ranging from contemporary to classical music. Because it is speech-controlled and has an intuitive interface, the Voice Portal simplifies and enhances the opportunities for users to personalise their mobile phones.

"By simply dialling 825 and saying "Ring signals", our customers can gain easy access to one of the most popular mobile services available today," says Mikael Kluge, Director of Europolitan Vodafone's Mobile Internet business area.

"We are constantly updating and changing the range of signals available," continues Mikael Kluge. "This means that users are able to come back whenever they want and download new ring signals. Furthermore, the wide selection of signals means that there is always something that suits all tastes."

Europolitan Vodafone's Voice Portal was launched in spring 2001 and has grown steadily ever since, both in terms of content and number of users. The Voice Portal is based on PipeBeach's carrier-class VoiceXML platform speechWeb. speechWeb converts VoiceXML documents into interactive dialogs using advanced Internet and multi-lingual speech technologies. speechWeb has the widest language support in the industry and supports close to 30 languages for both automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis.

Christer Granberg, CEO and co-founder PipeBeach comments: "We are delighted that Europolitan Vodafone are expanding their service by adding ringing tones in the voice portal.  Voice is the ideal interface for easy access to mobile Internet services that provide you with personalized information and entertaining content such as ringing tones."

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