[New application developed for TI's OMAP(tm) platform allowing users to listen to emails, alerts and other data being ready in a human-like voice on wireless handheld devices.]

Boston -- SpeechWorks International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPWX - news), a global leader in speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies and services, today announced that it has developed an application for Texas Instruments'(TI) (NYSE: TXN - news) family of OMAP(TM) wireless processors for 2.5 and third generation (3G) mobile Internet devices. The application, using SpeechWorks' ETI-Eloquence embedded TTS engine, reads text in a human-like voice, and lets users listen to emails, alerts and other data on wireless handheld devices.

SpeechWorks' affiliation with TI, and as a member of the TI OMAP Developer Network, is an important part of SpeechWorks' strategy to serve customers in the device and automotive markets. (See related press release: SpeechWorks Forms New Business Unit to Serve Customers in the Automotive, Mobile Device and Set-Top Box Industries, December 10, 2001.) TI's OMAP platform has been embraced by the world's leading wireless manufacturers including Ericsson, Nokia , Sony and many others.

"TI will continue to work closely with top innovators in speech recognition technology such as SpeechWorks, as well as leading wireless phone and PDA manufacturers to quickly enable highly anticipated advanced voice applications for consumers," said Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI's OMAP platform. "Speech recognition technology on 2.5 and 3G mobile devices is going to significantly change the way mobile users communicate, and SpeechWorks' technology using TI's family of high performance, power efficient processors will enable this unique functionality."

Future applications of SpeechWorks' technologies on the OMAP platform include support of TI's DSP (digital signal processing), which extends the life of a device battery fourfold for extended consumer usage, and speech recognition capabilities based on Speech2Go(TM) software, SpeechWorks' small-footprint speech recognition engine.

"We are very excited to work with TI to bring our device technologies quickly to market," said Alan Schwartz, vice president of business development and head of the Automotive and Mobile Devices Customer Focus Unit at SpeechWorks.

"SpeechWorks' support for the OMAP platform is critical to reaching a broad audience of device manufacturers and, ultimately, hundreds' of millions of end-users."

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