SCHEDULE 14A
(Rule 14A-101)

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROXY STATEMENT
SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION

Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No.  )

      Filed by the registrant   

      Filed by a party other than the registrant   

      Check the appropriate box:

Preliminary proxy statement	Confidential, for use of the
	Commission only (as permitted by
	Rule 14a-6(e)(2).

         Definitive proxy statement.

         Definitive additional materials.

         Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12.

SYNTELLECT INC.

(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement if Other Than the Registrant)

      Payment of filing fee (check the appropriate box):

         No fee required.

         Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11.

      (1) Title of each class of securities to which transaction applies:

      (2) Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies:

      (3) Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined):

      (4) Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction:

      (5) Total fee paid:

         Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.

         Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing for which the offsetting fee was paid previously. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the form or schedule and the date of its filing.

      (1) Amount Previously Paid:

      (2) Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.:

      (3) Filing Party:

      (4) Date Filed:

CONTACT:
Timothy P. Vatuone Vice President & CFO 602-789-2954	Philip Bourdillon / Eugene Heller Silverman Heller Associates 310-208-2550

Institutional Shareholder Services
Recommends “YES” Vote on Syntellect’s Nominees

Phoenix, Arizona – May 17, 2002 – Syntellect Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNL) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the country’s leading proxy advisor, has issued a formal recommendation that its clients holding shares in Syntellect Inc. vote in favor of the Company’s slate of nominees to its board of directors and against the dissident nominee.

“We are gratified to have received this independent endorsement of the Company’s nominees,” said Anthony V. Carollo, chairman and CEO of Syntellect. “We look forward — following our annual meeting next Monday — to once again devoting our full energies to ensuring the Company’s future success.”

Syntellect’s annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time at Syntellect’s corporate headquarters in Phoenix.

About Syntellect Inc.

Syntellect Inc. is a global leader in speech-enabled customer, employee and supply-chain self-service software solutions and hosted services. Vista IMR, the Company’s fourth-generation voice processing software platform, is the only open-standards, Windows NT/Java™ and VoiceXML platform available from a major supplier. Further information is available at www.syntellect.com.

This news release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, technological or market changes that affect the use of telecommunications or interactive media response technology, dependence on maintaining and improving current products and services and developing new products and services, the loss of licenses for technology embedded in our products, the loss of key personnel and the inability to attract additional skilled personnel, and other additional cautionary factors discussed in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

# # #