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ROKTalk Text-to-Speech Adds Multi-Language Translation Functionality
GlobeNewswire
2010-04-14

      Leading Text-to-Speech Service for Websites Adds Multi-
      Language Translation Functionality -- With Mobile Phone
                        Version to be Added

LONDON, April 14, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROK Entertainment Group, the
UK-based mobile technology, applications and services company, has
today announced the addition of multi-language translation
functionality to its ROKTalk text-to-speech service for websites.

ROKTalk, originally designed to automatically convert typed words on
websites into audible speech, is now able to audibly deliver written
words on websites in five languages, including English, French, German,
Spanish and Hindi.

Further languages will be added in due course, and ROKTalk will be
developed further for use on mobile phones.

"The ability to translate text into other languages represents an
enormous advancement in website accessibility on many levels," said
Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK, "not least for the benefit
of those for whom English is not their first language, but also for the
under-educated and illiterate as well as the millions of people
affected by dyslexia worldwide."

There are approximately 350,000 people who are registered as being
blind or partially sighted in the UK, most of whom are partially or
entirely excluded from the socio-economic benefits of the internet as a
direct result of the lack of text-to-speech software on most websites.
In addition, there are an estimated 1 million people in the UK alone
who suffer from dyslexia or similar reading disabilities along with an
estimated 5% of the entire global adult population.

"Given it is law under the Americans with Disabilities Act for all
Governmental and commercial websites in the US to offer full
accessibility to all -- and we are aware that similar obligations are
expected to become law in the UK and across Europe in the future -- we
are now able to offer website owners not only full web-accessibility
compliance, but also the hugely important service of language
translations as well," added Kendrick.

Early adopters of the ROKTalk text-to-speech service in the UK have
included County Councils, regional Police Forces, NHS Trusts, Investors
in People, the Gloucester Housing Association and the Down's Syndrome
Association.

More information at: www.roktalk.com

About ROK:

Founded in 2004, ROK Entertainment Group is a mobile technologies,
applications and services development company with a suite of
revenue-generating mobile services which it licenses to Mobile
Operators and Handset Manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in the UK,
ROK is best known for its award-winning mobile TV services which stream
video -- live and on demand -- over 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi(R).

The ROK Entertainment Group logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=5361

Forward-Looking Statement:

The information contained in this news release, other than historical
information, consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in these statements. Forward-looking statements
regarding the timing of developing, testing and releasing existing and
new products, of marketing and selling them, of deriving revenues and
profits from them, as well as the effects of those revenues and profits
on the Group's margins and financial position, are uncertain because
many of the factors affecting the timing of those items are beyond the
Group's control.


CONTACT:  ROK Entertainment Group Inc.
          Bruce Renny
          +44 (0)1902 374 896
          bruce.renny@rokent.com



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