Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC, in partnership with IMVU developer Cassiopeian Ltd, today announced the release of imVoices, a new widget for the IMVU Virtual World (www.imvu.com). imVoices leverages Cepstral's VoiceForge service to bring entertaining character voices to avatars, and is the first Text-to-Speech (TTS) application targeted at virtual worlds. IMVU is a rapidly growing 3D instant messenger and has more than 1 million beta customers.

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC and Digium Inc., working with popular IVR voice talent Allison Smith, have partnered to produce a Text-to-Speech (TTS) version of Allison's ubiquitous IVR voice. Allison is the default voice of the Asterisk(R) open-source telephone system, with millions of installed copies. Allison's voice can be found on systems for Verizon, Qwest, Cingular, Bank of America, Marriott Hotels, Ebay, 3M, and other high-profile companies.

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC is proud to announce that it is providing the first open source Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) library, OpenMRCP, at no charge to telephony application developers today. Cepstral is donating OpenMRCP to the developer community in order to spur the development of telephony applications that interact with Text-To-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition.

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC announced the release of VoiceForge(tm), a web 2.0 product that can turn a set of recorded audio prompts into a Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice capable of saying anything. With VoiceForge(tm), companies or actors can capture or "bank" their voices on their own.

Pittsburgh, PA -- December 1, 2006 -- Cepstral LLC today expanded its web site to include a Community User Support Forum. All Cepstral Voice users are invited to join the Forum to help build a strong user Community around the use of Cepstral voices. The Community Forum can be accessed at http://www.cepstral.com/forum.