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PalTalk Selects SPIRIT Voice Product for One of the Most Popular Voice & Video Conferencing Services in the World
PalTalk Selects SPIRIT Voice Product for One of the Most Popular Voice & Video Conferencing Services in the World
Published 01-25-06
Submitted by SPIRIT-DSP
(www.spiritDSP.com/voip), provider of award-winning embedded voice
& communication software products, announced today that PalTalk
(www.paltalk.com), one of the Internet's leading providers of voice
and video chat services, has chosen SPIRIT voice software product to
enhance the Paltalk user voice experience. Paltalk is one of the
world's most popular voice & video communication services in the world,
featuring more than 37 million registered users in over 140 countries
carrying in excess of 8 billion voice minutes per year.
"Through SPIRIT's partnership with Paltalk, the clear voice from
SPIRIT for multi-point conferencing will now serve additional millions
of people worldwide "- said Andrew Sviridenko, SPIRIT's founder and
chairman.
SPIRIT's award-winning multi-point full-duplex voice enhancement
will be deployed in Paltalk's thriving rooms. SPIRIT product will
allow each person on Paltalk to speak up and be heard even while
another person is talking simultaneously. The full-duplex voice
functionality from SPIRIT will be enabled for Paltalk's online
conferences with 1000+ people all in the same room. Paltalk was the
first to offer an instant messenger with free voice capabilities.
"Paltalk has always been heavily focused on the quality of the
user experience," notes Jason Katz, Paltalk's founder and CEO. "We are
looking forward to bringing SPIRIT's voice quality enhancements to the
millions of people in the Paltalk community worldwide."
SPIRIT's flagship product - award-winning multi-point full-duplex
voice conferencing engine TeamSpirit (TM) - already deployed by both
Oracle and Macromedia, provides superior voice quality, not only in
peer-to-peer talk, but also in multi-point full-duplex conferencing,
allowing each person speak up and be heard even in double talk. 10
years of SPIRIT's embedded voice experience allow easy and fast
integration of SPIRIT voice conferencing engine into applications on
PC, mobile phones, 3G video enabled phones and VoIP CPEs (Voice &
Video over IP Customer Premises Equipment). Overall SPIRIT products
power over 80M+ voice channels today.
About SPIRIT
SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com/voip) employs 120 professionals,
has been in international software licensing business since 1992. SPIRIT
is a bootstrap and has been profitable for 12 years. SPIRIT focus is
communication, speech and VoIP software products and today SPIRIT counts
among its clients Agere, Atmel, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera,
LG, Macromedia, Marconi, NEC, Nortel Networks, Oracle, PalTalk,
Panasonic, Philips, Polycom, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments and
Toshiba, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors.
Through the brand names SPIRIT communication software is used in over 70
countries and powers 80 million voice channels. SeeStorm is SPIRIT
subsidiary for synthetic video conferencing. In 2005, SPIRIT DSP has been
honored as one of the 'Fierce 15' top VoIP companies, and one of
the 'Pulver 100' growth companies that represent the future of IP
communications.
About PalTalk
PalTalk is a New York-based, privately held service provider for
voice and video conferencing over the Internet. PalTalk was founded in
1998 and was the first company to launch video and voice combined with
an on-line buddy list in one package. PalTalk interoperates with AOL
Instant Messenger, Yahoo messenger and ICQ. PalTalk currently has 37
million registered users in over 140 countries and provides over 8
billion voice minutes per year. PalTalk has relationships with IBM,
AT&T, DeltaThree, Doubleclick, Valueclick, and Advertising.com.
Copyright Business Wire 2006
