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Text2Video for 3G Phones

23rd August ,2004

Europe : Visual Messaging opens a new world for messaging services by integrating and combining text, voice, images and video. The new MATERNA solution Anny Way Text2Video combines approved services with the power of next generation (2.5 & 3G) networks and handsets to enhance the multimedia experience.

Inset shows Materna Offices in Dortmund Germany.

Within Anny Way Text2Video, the mobile user can create and send a text message that will be transformed and delivered as a Video MMS. Speech and video is created automatically by the system. Anny Way Text2Video turn any picture into a speaking and moving presenter. The message has a natural look and fell through the lip-synch animation based on rendering technology for actual more than 12 languages.

Furthermore Anny Way Text2Video come with web and WAP interfaces that let subscribers browse, select and manipulate characters, emotions and media formats with ease and rich functionality. Network operators can customize the application best suited to their needs by using web-based editors and templates, essentially building their own dedicated Anny Way Text2Video services very quickly.

Mobile users and network operators benefit from a broad range of features and advantages:

-- Automatic speech and video generation

-- Making it simple to combine different media technologies, e.g. SMS, MMS, Video, Streaming

-- Any characters can be created

-- Based on standardized products and interfaces

-- Prepared for future upgrade to MMS Input, MMS streaming etc.

-- Various billing and provisioning methods

-- Integration of legacy devices

MATERNA offers a hosted Anny Way Text2Video application in it's own 24x7 data center or a licensing model. Anny Way Text2Video is a module of MATERNA'S successful Mobile Content and Application Server (MACS) which is in deployed at several mobile network operators around the world.

MATERNA Information & Communications

MATERNA is a leading software company in the field of information and communication technology. The company employs worldwide 1.100 staff members and its turnover was estimated to more than 142 million Euros for the year 2003. Beside the head office in Dortmund, the company has offices and subsidiaries located all over Germany as well as in Austria, Belgium, Czech republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and USA. The Business Unit Communications offers products and solutions from the business area Mobile Solutions and Unified Messaging. This includes in particular value-added services for mobile and fixed net on base of SMS, MMS, WAP and Mobile Java which are distributed under the brand name Anny Way. The Anny Way Academy is active on the market in terms of trainings and consulting services as found in practice. In the Business Unit Information, MATERNA develops integrated IT solutions for process optimization involving companies and public administration. This includes the topic fields Portals, Information Management, Service and IT Infrastructure Management.

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