Audium and Holly Australia Partner

NEW YORK, NY - Holly Australia, a technology company focused on the development of speech solutions, announced that it has embedded Audium 3, Audium's VoiceXML application software, in the Holly Voice Gateway. This decision gives Holly customers the integrated resources to build and run advanced voice applications. "Today's announcement represents a significant milestone in the evolution of the Holly Voice Gateway," said David Shein, Holly's chief executive officer. "After careful consideration of the products in the marketplace we've identified Audium as the clear applications software leader and are excited to incorporate their product into ours. As the first company in the world to embed a leading third party applications environment into our Gateway, we are now providing independent application software vendors the opportunity to write advanced speech applications on a fully integrated best-of-breed platform." Audium 3 provides a complete applications solution with a full set of tools. The software is used by enterprises, service providers and independent software vendors interactive customer service applications. The Holly Voice Gateway is the core component of the Holly Voice Platform. It integrates with telephony, Text-to-Speech (TTS) and speech recognition software and provides an interface for applications to access these resources using Audium software in addition to a variety of industry standard protocols. "We are excited to be associated with an innovative, customer focused company like Holly," said Audium chief executive Michael Bergelson. "We have had fantastic feedback regarding Holly's technology from customers. We're looking forward to working closely with the Holly team to deliver an integrated platform that gives customers a straightforward, consistent approach to the creation, deployment and management of all phases of their speech solutions."