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Brooktrout Technology and Apptec Voice Solutions Deliver Digital Dictation and Transcription Service to the Medical Industry and Legal Community System Can Save Professionals Time and Help Accelerate Reimbursement and Billing NEW YORK, SpeechTEK 2005, Booth 307, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brooktrout Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of media processing and call control products, and Apptec Voice Solutions, a solutions provider of network and telephony applications today announced that Apptec Voice Solutions has selected Brooktrout's speech platform for its next generation of digital dictation and transcription services. The service will use the media processing capabilities of Brooktrout's speech platform to take dictation from call-in users using any telephone or Apptec's microphone stations. It will enable call-in transcribers to access this dictation and control playback using Apptec's telephone-based transcribe stations. This digital dictation and transcription service can save time by streamlining the document creation process, helping to accelerate reimbursement and billing, and allowing users to spend more time with patients and clients and less time on the mundane but necessary medical record annotation and project documentation process. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990806/BRKTTECH ) Apptec Voice Solutions Digital Dictation System (DDS) is the first dictation system in the industry to combine telephony, network, and web interfaces in a single platform server. DDS provides voice file storage, retrieval and archiving, workflow management and reporting, file import and export via network and web, and telephony-based user interfaces. Every user has a profile which allows the system to respond to unique requirements. Authors can enter one or more demographics that uniquely identify each dictation. Transcriptionists can select work by one of many available criteria, so they can work on the most important priority or find specific work in an instant. Brooktrout's speech platform will connect DDS servers to the telephone network and process all voice and touch-tone responses for use by the application. The speech platform provides superior audio quality, especially when users use playback speed control, as well as a full range of analog and digital call controls. Call processing is enhanced through the use of monitoring tones and other call connection indications provided by the Brooktrout speech board. Andrew Braverman, President of Apptec Corporation stated, "We selected the Brooktrout speech platform for our DDS server because of its advanced speech processing characteristics and reliable performance. Just as important, Brooktrout helps us provide a highly reliable and cost effective solution that we are able to offer our customers and that can save them more than 60% off the cost of competitive systems. For example, using our 24 port DDS, a hospital or large law firm could save as much as $50,000 in capital expenditures versus other similarly featured systems." The Brooktrout speech products are standards-based, board-level speech processing platforms specifically designed to support a broad array of speech, IVR, messaging, and conferencing applications. Ranging from 2 to 240 channels per server, the performance and flexibility of this feature-rich media platform allows systems to scale in both density and functionality to help meet the current and evolving needs of advanced enterprise and service provider applications. About Apptec Apptec Corporation develops and sells, through dealers, state of the art voice processing platforms for a wide range of markets including healthcare, legal, education, and general business. Apptec Voice Solutions, a new division of Apptec Corporation, makes its products, product development services, and expertise available directly to OEMs, VARs, government entities and general business clients. Since its founding in 1998, more than 750 institutions and businesses nationwide have deployed Apptec's products to facilitate their document creation process with one of the easiest to setup, simplest to use, and most cost effective digital dictation system in the industry today. For more information, visit http://www.apptecvoicesolutions.com/. About Brooktrout Technology Brooktrout Technology is a leading supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products that enable the development of applications, systems and services for both the New Network (packet-based) and the traditional telephone (TDM) network. The company's strategy is to partner with its customers and collaborate closely with them to help accelerate their delivery of new applications and services, increase their existing business, and expand into new markets. For more information, visit http://www.brooktrout.com/. Brooktrout Technology is a subsidiary of Brooktrout, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKT). Brooktrout, Brooktrout Technology, TR1000 and New Network are trademarks of Brooktrout, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contact: Laura Often Andrew Braverman +1 (781) 453-4858 + 1 (631) 828-1245 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990806/BRKTTECH http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Brooktrout Technology, Inc. CONTACT: Laura Often of Brooktrout Technology, +1-781-453-4858, ; or Andrew Braverman of Apptec Corporation, +1-631-828-1245, Web site: http://www.brooktrout.com/ http://www.apptecvoicesolutions.com/

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