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AVST Corpora"
+"te Overview
Applied Voice"
+" & Speech Technologies, Inc. is a leading develope"
+"r of enterprise communications solutions for busin"
+"esses of all sizes. Through its world-class unifi"
+"ed communications platform, CallXpress®, and its i"
+"nnovative speech application module, Seneca®, AVST"
+" offers the industry's most powerful suite of seco"
+"nd generation enterprise communications solutions "
+"including voice messaging, unified messaging ('UM'"
+"), speech-enabled applications (including automate"
+"d attendant and mobile worker access), and call pr"
+"ocessing (including embedded IVR).
AVST was established in September 2003 f"
+"rom the combined businesses of Sound Advantage (es"
+"tablished in 1997) and the AVT division (establish"
+"ed in 1982) of Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPA). A pr"
+"ivately-owned company, AVST's two major institutio"
+"nal investors are Ignition Partners, Seattle, WA ("
+"www.ignitionpartners.com) and Dolphin "
+"Equity Partners, New York, NY (www.dolphinequ"
+"ity.com). Captaris, Inc. is also a minority sh"
+"areholder.
Headquartered "
+"in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facil"
+"ities in Seattle, Washington and the United Kingdo"
+"m and has remote sales offices across the United S"
+"tates. With over 35,000 systems installed worldwid"
+"e over the past 22 years, AVST's communications so"
+"lutions are sold and supported by an extensive net"
+"work of resellers and OEM partners including the E"
+"nterprise Solutions Group of Verizon Communication"
+"s, Altura Communications Solutions, Black Box Netw"
+"ork Services, NetVersant Solutions, Shared Technol"
+"ogies, Ericsson AB, and over 200 other independent"
+" resellers worldwide.
For"
+" more information, please contact AVST at www.avst.com.
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