FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., April 4, 2006 – Continuing on its tradition of education and awareness for the unified communications marketplace, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), today announced plans for a series of high-impact sales training seminars for its resellers.  The CallXpress Success Seminars are offered to qualified AVST resellers and will take place throughout the months of April and May 2006 in nine cities across the United States.

AVST, a leading provider of unified communications solutions, designed the CallXpress Success Seminar to help resellers accelerate revenue growth by making their sales teams proficient in selling its products.  Participants will learn valuable tips on how to prospect and qualify sales opportunities, improve and maintain customer satisfaction, increase the closing ratio, improve time efficiency, create more compelling product presentations, and negotiate the best deals.

“With CallXpress selling so well in the enterprise marketplace coupled with our newly expanded product offerings for small-to-medium businesses, it is an exciting time for our channel partners,” said AVST’s Vice President of Marketing, Denny Michael.  “Because of high market demand, AVST resellers have more opportunities to sell our best-of-breed unified communications solutions than ever before.  By offering this seminar, we are doing our part to help each of our reseller partners maximize their sales potential.”

CallXpress, AVST’s flagship unified communications platform, delivers voice mail, call processing, fax, advanced unified messaging and speech-enabled capabilities that are designed for companies of all sizes.  The solution allows employees to communicate and collaborate more productively and effectively because users can receive and respond to messages anywhere, anytime.  That means customers aren't left waiting, mobile workers are accessible and urgent messages are available right away. CallXpress greatly increases service levels and also provides a consistent corporate interface to the customers.

Following is the schedule for the CallXpress Success Seminars:

• April 4 – Palo Alto, California
• April 6 – Irvine, California
• April 11 – Richardson, Texas
• April 13 – Lisle, Illinois
• April 18 – Cleveland, Ohio
• April 20 – McLean, Virginia
• April 25 – Teaneck, New Jersey
• April 27 – Dedham, Massachusetts
• May 16 – Bellevue, Washington

For more information contact an AVST sales representative at http://www.avst.com/contactus/requestinfo.asp.

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.