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New Mobile Computing Platform Makes Music with SONiVOX audioINSIDE

Boston, MA. May 30, 2007 -- SONiVOX (parent company Sonic Network, Inc.), a world-wide provider of audio synthesis technology to the handheld consumer device and musical instrument markets, announced today that Livescribe Inc. has licensed SONiVOX's audioINSIDE technology to provide music synthesis capabilities on it's new paper-based pen computing platform.

The Livescribe platform turns plain paper into a computer screen and bridges the gap between the paper and digital worlds. With the addition of audioINSIDE technology, product manufacturers can create engaging, high-quality music-driven games or products, such as musical instruments that can be drawn on physical paper, then transcribed to digital media and, finally, played out loud.

"It's a fascinating technology," comments Jennifer Hruska, Founder and President of SONiVOX. "To be able to take a simple pen, draw a musical instrument, and hear it play that instrument, is very exciting. I can imagine many uses for such a technology in the education and entertainment arenas."

"The broad range of Livescribe applications enhance personal productivity, learning, communication, and self expression," states Rodney Brooks, Director of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "This platform takes paper-based technology to an entirely new level that I see as just the beginning for a new class of device with almost unlimited potential."

The Livescribe platform -- a smartpen, dot paper, software applications, along with development tools -- will be available online beginning in Q1-08.

About Livescribe
Located in Oakland, Calif., Livescribe has developed a new low-cost mobile computing platform that connects the paper and digital worlds. Founded by Jim Marggraff, an entrepreneur and inventor of paper-based computing, including the LeapPad and FLY Pentop Computer, the company is designing innovative solutions that enhance personal productivity, learning, communication, and self expression for anyone who writes with pen and paper. For more information, visit Livescribe at www.livescribe.com.

About SONIVOX
SONiVOX is a premier developer of audio technologies and solutions. SONiVOX products are in tens of millions of products worldwide, including cellphones, semiconductors, games, professional audio equipment and music synthesizers. In addition, SONiVOX continues to produce SONiVOX MI, a leading line of computer music software products, endorsed by Hollywood's leading film and television composers and used by tens of thousands of musicians worldwide. For more information, visit SONiVOX at www.sonivoxrocks.com.


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