Lipstream Brings Real-Time Voice Services to Cultura Inglesa Online Language Courses
Cupertino, Calif. — Lipstream® Networks, Inc., the leading provider of real-time voice over the Internet for business, today announced that its VoIP services have been integrated with the Cultura Inglesa Online (www.culturainglesaonline.com) language education portal. The addition of Lipstream’s voice services enhance Cultura Inglesa Online’s Internet-based courses with a complete, real-time voice solution that delivers a highly interactive human experience for connecting online class participants with instructors and each other.
Lipstream’s PC-to-PC voice service enables Cultura Inglesa Online’s language instructors and students to engage in group discussions, one-on-one conversations, and send text messages in real-time, enhancing student comprehension and retention, and allowing for written language practice and spoken language pronunciation feedback.
“Cultura Inglesa Online has always provided valuable online language learning services such as writing, listening and reading exercises,” said Roberto Beck, CEO at Cultura Inglesa Online. “However, conversation is crucial to the correct learning of a spoken language. With the addition of Lipstream’s advanced VoIP services, we’re now able to offer students and teachers a real-time speaking service, and a complete, cutting-edge online education solution.”
“Effective communication is essential to the learning process and is especially important to an online language education scenario, such as Cultura Inglesa Online’s,” said Matt Jones, President and CEO at Lipstream. “By adding our live voice services to its Web-based language courses, Cultura Inglesa Online is bringing the immediacy and effectiveness of online voice interaction to the virtual classroom.”
Lipstream’s Real-Time Voice Service in the Virtual Classroom
Lipstream’s real-time voice service is an ideal online tool for distance learning environments. Lipstream’s VoIP services run over the Lipstream Network, which is based on a unique architecture providing a high quality, secure, highly scalable medium for the transmission of real-time communications. Unlike other VoIP vendors, Lipstream’s network features multiple redundancy and rapid problem correction to ensure the best available voice quality for every connection. Lipstream’s flexible termination options of connecting to PC’s, a local phone number, toll free (800) number, or on premise voice gateway enable businesses to choose the service that best meets their infrastructure and cost needs.
In virtual classroom environments, Lipstream allows students and instructors to conduct voice discussions with a single click. Participants can talk from PC-to-PC, or PC-to- phone anywhere in the world where Internet access is available. With Lipstream’s voice services, students and teachers can converse naturally, just as they would in a real classroom. The results are greater comprehension and more effective learning. Students can send text messages and research the Web while they are attending a training session, and training conferences can be recorded and saved for review at a later time. Educators can combine online course content with real-time voice instruction so that students can ask questions as they arise and obtain answers immediately. As more students are enrolled, Lipstream makes it easy to add more users.
Lipstream’s voice service is now available with Cultura Inglesa Online’s language education portal. Other Lipstream customers in the online education space include EF Education and Global English. For more information on the use of Lipstream’s real-time voice service in online learning applications, please visit Lipstream’s website at www.lipstream.com.
About Lipstream Networks, Inc.
Lipstream Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time voice over the Internet for business. Lipstream provides a full suite of real-time PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone and Phone-to-Phone voice services enabling solutions for customer care, eMarketing, business communication, training, learning, and community applications. Lipstream manages a global real-time Internet infrastructure, delivering the highest quality voice service and platform, enabling businesses to transform the communications experience. Lipstream offers a unique and simple-to-use experience and provides the highest voice quality available on the Internet today.
Lipstream is privately held and investors include American Express Company, Compaq Computer Corporation, Crosslink Capital and Sequoia Capital. Based in Cupertino, California, Lipstream can be found on the Internet at www.lipstream.com or contacted via telephone at (408) 861-8200.
About Cultura Inglesa Online
Launched in September 2000, Cultura Inglesa Online aims to become the largest language-learning portal in the Latin American market. Their courses offer bilingual support and focus on the areas that are problematic for Latin American students. This unique approach utilizes the vast resources of the Internet, enabling students the freedom to study any time, anywhere. All four skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening) are comprehensively developed, with the help of state-of-the-art technology. The education portal’s online teaching staff are always on hand to answer students’ questions about grammar and vocabulary, and offer useful tips on how the students can improve their language learning. Internet users can choose from general English courses (available at all levels), business English courses or exam preparation material for the Brazilian university entrance exam and TOEFL (including mock exams).
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