LAKE FOREST, Calif.,
July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Voice
Assist, Inc. (OTCBB:VSST), a leading developer of hosted speech
services and voice "in-application" technology, and Adaptel
Communications, a full-service communications company focused on
providing service to the visually impaired community, today
announced that they have entered into a reseller agreement. Under
the terms of the agreement, Adaptel will bundle Voice Assist with
flat rate VoIP service and/or mobile phone service and also provide
the virtual assistant and live assistant as a cost-effective add-on
to existing lines.
"Voice Assist is pleased to be chosen by Adaptel Communications
to provide one-button access to a virtual assist that responds to
voice commands on demand," said Michael Metcalf, Chairman and CEO
of Voice Assist. "This agreement demonstrates the diversity
and capabilities of Voice Assist's unique, patent-pending platform.
Our hosted speech services can provide a better quality of life for
the visually impaired, in addition to the more consumer-focused
benefits such as hands-free safe driving and business
communications."
Voice Assist is providing one-button access to a virtual
assistant that responds to voice commands on demand.
Additionally, Voice Assist is also providing enhanced operator
services on a 24/7 schedule to empower the visually impaired and/or
busy people with the unique option of accessing live personal
assistance 24/7. The Voice Assist cloud-based solution works
with any telephone or IP-connected device (such as the iPhone®,
Blackberry®, Android™ phones, the iPad® and other tablets) and
provides a voice-enabled communication solution for young people,
veterans and other adults that may be visually impaired so they can
easily call, text, email or post by voice.
"There are over 58 million Americans with disabilities, creating
a huge need and opportunity for assistive technology in education,
employment, transportation, and emergency usage," said Dr.
Edward C. Nicholson, CEO &
President of Adaptel Communications. "The one-button service
that Voice Assist is providing for these individuals to access
telecommunications will make these individuals more productive and
independent. Telecommunications services for the visually
impaired also play a critical role in life-threatening emergencies.
Numerous reports show that the safety concerns of the relatives of
elderly parents are addressed when the senior citizens can easily
access telecommunications services. With the Adaptel products
and Voice Assist platform, we can easily address these
concerns."
Adaptel Communications will deploy Direct Sales Personnel
(DSP's) and Master Agents (MA's) to market and promote the bundled
solution to business to business (B2B), business to consumer (B2C)
and business to government (B2G) customers. Additionally,
Adaptel plans to provide service with no credit check and no term
contract on a low flat-rate basis in order to make these enhanced
telecom services available to the masses.
About Adaptel Communications
Adaptel Communications offers an array of product and service
technologies as an Enhanced Service Provider to a specialized
marketplace. That marketplace is associated with the blind,
visually impaired, disadvantaged, elderly and other individuals
with physical disabilities. Based in North America with distribution and sales
affiliations in both the United
States and Canada, Adaptel
is the premier specialist in its targeted space. As such, the
company is uniquely qualified and poised to lead the way on behalf
of those associated with Adaptel to create new accessibility
applications for those persons who may not otherwise realize the
techniques and products that are available to them.
Adaptel services include the usage integration of common telecom
services and products such as Internet telephony, mobile data,
cellular and other needed specialized applications.
Additionally, Adaptel provides the finest in technical
support, customer relations management and client care. This allows
accessibility and choice adoption technologies, while affording the
efficiencies available to individuals or business professionals for
independence, production, personal growth and prosperity.
For more information on the company, call 877-634-8398 or visit
http://www.adaptelcommunications.com/.
About Voice Assist
Headquartered in Lake Forest,
Calif., Voice Assist is a hosted speech services company
that enables voice in any application, network and device.
The company's cloud-based speech platform eliminates the need
to use a keyboard or keypad to interact, and enables users to
communicate, connect or transact using any application on any phone
or IP-connected device. The Voice Assist platform includes a
fast and safe way to make calls, manage your e-mails, send text
messages and post to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
by voice commands and provides a scalable solution for developers
to add voice to any application.
For more information on the company, visit www.voiceassist.com.
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services can provide a better quality of life for the visually
impaired, in addition to the more consumer-focused benefits such as
hands-free safe driving and business communications." involve risks
and uncertainties, including, but not limited to functionality of
our technology, and any other difficulties related to risks and
effects of legal and administrative proceedings and governmental
regulation, future financial and operational results, competition,
general economic conditions, and the ability to manage and continue
growth.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize,
or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes
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revise or update such statements to reflect current events or
circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
SOURCE Voice Assist, Inc.