Loquendo
Loquendo ASR Now in Russian

Turin, Italy - 22nd January 2009

Loquendo, leading provider of core speech technologies and voice platforms worldwide, launches Loquendo ASR in the Russian language. This follows the release in October last year of Loquendo TTS in Russian, with the voice of Olga.

Loquendo ASR is speaker-independent, multilingual speech recognition technology which accurately and reliably recognizes large-scale vocabulary continuous speech, even in heterogeneous and noisy environments such as mobile, VoIP or in-car.
Loquendo ASR is currently available in 21 languages, and the latest version (ASR 7.7) offers many significant new features, including:

  • Feature Normalization – improves recognition accuracy, even when run-time operating conditions are different from those on which the ASR was trained.

  • Continuous Recognition Mode – enables the recognition of short, consecutive commands. Each command is recognised as separate, yet the ASR is immediately ready for the next recognition event.

  • Improved Confidence Score – a robust algorithm calculates confidence values, improving separation between in-grammar and out-of-grammar utterances, resulting in more robust dialogues.

  • Java support – built on C/C++ APIs.

Russian is the largest native language in Europe, and the release of Loquendo ASR in the Russian language opens up many strategic and expanding markets to the company’s partners in Europe, Asia and beyond.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
Winner of 'Market Leader-Best Speech Engine' at the 2008 and 2007 Speech Industry Awards, Loquendo is the leading innovator in speech recognition and speech synthesis - providing a complete range of technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions. Currently available in 26 languages with 62 voices, and constantly growing, Loquendo's best-in-breed technologies enhance customer satisfaction and greatly reduce costs.

Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Embedded Technologies, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies which are also available on the Loquendo MRCP Server and VoiceXML and CCXML platforms.

Many enterprises and carriers worldwide have recognized the Loquendo difference and our advanced technologies power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets across the globe.

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners.

For more information about Loquendo, and to hear demos of all Loquendo voices, go to www.loquendo.com.