Here's some news about Spirit DSP's continued success. They remain a company to keep an eye to in 2008 as they continue leading the way to next generation technologies.

BT Licenses SPIRIT's Audio Software

Moscow, Russia - January 29, 2008 - SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that global communication services provider BT plc (British Telecom) has licensed SPIRIT's audio technology for concept testing of its next generation telecommunications services to ensure the highest quality audio experience for its customers.

Today's communications market is extremely competitive and service providers have to offer different value-added services to their customers in order to stand out in this fast-paced market. BT is the largest wholesale provider of broadband services in the UK, with DSL coverage available to 98.8 percent of the UK's population.

"SPIRIT has always been deeply committed to delivering next-generation communication experiences to people worldwide. Providing superb audio quality to global service providers is at the heart of our business," said Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales at SPIRIT DSP. "The recognition of SPIRIT by such an established global telecommunications service provider as BT underscores SPIRIT's competence in high-quality audio solutions for telecom and cable operators. SPIRIT has always worked on the cutting edge of global communications technology by anticipating, meeting and exceeding our customers' needs for product efficiency, performance, advanced audio quality and resource consumption."

SPIRIT, a global communications technology leader, develops and provides its multimedia software engines (for PC and mobile platforms) to telecom, cable, technology and Internet leaders worldwide. The TeamSpirit® product family is a set of easy-to-integrate solutions that deliver crystal-clear sound and video quality to a broad range of communication applications, including enterprise-grade Web conferencing systems, next-generation mobile devices, public IMs, branded soft-phones, set-top-boxes, etc. Thanks to proprietary technology, SPIRIT audio software is optimized to minimize CPU load, memory footprint and power consumptions, while preserving high sound quality and increasing quality of low bit-rate audio. Only SPIRIT has voice and video engines that span all communication devices and all market segments, including mobile OEMs/ODMs, semiconductor vendors, VoIP service providers, software vendors, online gaming and social networking.

About BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.

In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was £20,223 million with profit before taxation of £2,484 million. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt.

About SPIRIT
SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years, SPIRIT's focus has been voice and video communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima, ARM, Atmel, Cisco, Compal, deltathree, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, NXP, Oracle, Paltalk, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, , Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Trinity Convergence, Veraz, and among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

TeamSpirit is a registered trademark of SPIRIT DSP. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are registered to their respective owners.
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