SAN DIEGO -- LumenVox, an innovator in speech recognition technology, announced today at VON support for South American and Mexican Spanish-language dialects in their Speech Engine v7.5. These new language models enable Asterisk developers in Spanish-speaking countries to leverage LumenVox speech recognition technology by building speech-enabled applications that are localized for their markets.

"The number of Spanish speakers who come into contact with an Asterisk system, either through a customer service application or a call router, is clearly growing. With these types of applications, the case for speech recognition is strong, and our technology and language models are now there to meet the demand," said Gerd Graumann, Director of Business Development at LumenVox.

Jim Webster, Director of Software Technologies at Digium, said, "The Asterisk community in Latin and South America is large and quite active, and we view them as important to our growth. With the addition of the LumenVox Speech Engine for Spanish and its Asterisk connector bridge from Digium, speech-based Asterisk solutions will proliferate and expand Asterisk's presence in those markets."

The LumenVox Speech Engine is the core speech recognition technology that handles the recognition of words and phrases. Currently supported languages are US, UK, Australian and New Zealand English; Canadian French; and the new Spanish dialects. The Speech Engine is directly and seamlessly integrated with the Asterisk platform. Speech applications can be written in Dial Plan, Java and VXML.

Representatives from LumenVox will be available for product demonstrations at booth 809 in the Digium Partner Pavilion. VON runs March 19th-22nd, 2007, at the San Jose Convention Center. For more information visit http://www.von.com/ and http://www.lumenvox.com.

About LumenVox

LumenVox provides powerful, full-featured, and affordable speech recognition software together with a committed focus on excellent customer service. Our innovative speech technology empowers channel integrators, developers, and solution providers to design and deploy dynamic speech solutions. LumenVox has gained industry recognition by winning over 20 awards for innovation, technical excellence, and user's choice for our Speech Engine, Speech Platform and Speech Tuner. LumenVox can be reached at 877-977-0707 or at www.LumenVox.com.