Verity, BBN Technologies and Jubilant Create Powerful Video-Audio Search Solution

Leaders in Enterprise Search, Speech-to-Text and Digital Media Management Offer Unique Platform to Organize, Locate, Analyze all Multimedia Content

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - 2005-04-19 - BBN Technologies, a pre-eminent developer of speech recognition technologies, Jubilant Technologies Inc., creator of a middleware platform for multimedia management, and Verity Inc., (NASDAQ: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment, today announced availability of a uniquely powerful video-audio search solution for organizations seeking to better organize, locate and analyze relevant multimedia content.

"Until now, finding segments or comments within a particular video or audio file has been time-consuming and often fraught with error," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and chief executive officer. "By blending our experience, expertise and technologies, BBN, Jubilant and Verity are able to offer a powerful solution that can locate and retrieve a particular phrase or passage in a video or audio file with ease, speed and accuracy."

"Video-audio-focused search solutions have largely been compromises, being only as strong as the weakest link," said Dr. S. Stephen Paek, Jubilant's chief technology officer. "From media processing, transcription processing to search and classification, all elements of the BBN-Jubilant-Verity solution are world-class."

BBN Technologies contributes its award-winning speech-to-text software, AVOKE STX, to this solution. AVOKE STX quickly and cost-effectively transforms audio data into a usable and searchable rich transcription that can be stored, searched, and retrieved just as any piece of text in a document.

"This solution eliminates the hit-or-miss nature of accessing audio data and provides instantaneous navigation to any point in a broadcast or conversation," said Alex Laats, BBN Technologies Delta Division's president. "The AVOKE STX speech-to-text system has been recognized as the best software of its kind. It is fitting that it is now linked with Jubilant's ERM2 Platform and Verity K2 Enterprise software."

AVIOS, an international society dedicated to practical applications of advanced speech technology, recently acknowledged AVOKE STX as the best technology for audio search. At its heart is the most accurate, speaker independent, continuous speech recognition engine commercially available in the world.

Advanced search and taxonomy creation, or content classification, is provided by Verity K2 Enterprise software, the recognized market and technological leader. The Verity software acts on user queries to seek the most relevant content residing in audio or video, parsing the metadata to retrieve results with speed and accuracy. Verity classification capabilities allow audio- or video-based content to be organized in a way that reflects how an organization operates.

The powerful video-audio search solution is now available from Verity.

About BBN Technologies

BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for over 50 years.

Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.

For more information on BBN Technologies' suite of speech and natural language products, visit www.bbn.com/avoke.

About Jubilant Technologies

Jubilant Technologies, Inc. is a software and solutions provider with a focus on multimedia communications and multimedia management.

Jubilant's solutions enable some of the world's largest corporations and government agencies with breakthrough multimedia capabilities. Jubilant's multimedia communications solutions enable organizations to communicate on a global basis with high quality, live, multimedia. Jubilant's multimedia management solutions enable organizations to automatically extract mission-critical intelligence from audiovisual content.

Jubilant's solutions are based on the Jubilant ERM2 Platform, which seamlessly incorporates and integrates a suite of proven, best-of-breed multimedia systems and technologies in a unified platform, including multimedia encoding, encryption, indexing, analysis, publishing, and networking.

For more information, visit http://www.jubilant.biz.

About Verity

Headquarter in Sunnyvale, California, Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment. The company's intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions provide integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with self-service Q & A. In addition, Verity's business process management and content capture solutions activate information and accelerate its flow from person to person and between systems. Verity technology also serves as a core component of more than 260 applications from leading independent software vendors.

Around the world, more than 11,500 organizations of all sizes and types rely on Verity to manage their intellectual capital. In the private sector, these include ABB, AT&T, AXA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Capgemini, Capital One, Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, EDGAR Online, Ford, GMAC, Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, KPMG, Mayo Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, UBS and Verizon. In the public sector, customers come from all levels and branches of government, including the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Air Force and Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, including the armed forces units, and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice. Independent software vendors that integrate Verity include EMC Documentum, FileNet, Lotus, Oracle, Stellent, TIBCO and Xerox DocuShare.

For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.

Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.

Verity Editorial Contacts:

Winifred Shum

Verity, Inc.

(408) 542-2363

wshum@verity.com

Steve Hoechster

Euro RSCG Magnet

(212) 367-6910 or (914) 393-9219

steve.hoechster@eurorscg.com

BBN Technologies Editorial Contacts:

Joyce Kuzmin

BBN Technologies

(617) 873-8193

jkuzmin@bbn.com

Christine Milligan

Mullen

(978) 468-8951

christine.milligan@mullen.com

Jubilant Editorial Contact:

Paul Tanwanteng

Jubilant Technologies, Inc.

(973) 896-3418

paul.tan@jubilant.biz

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