April 27th, 2010

Turin, Italy, and Graz, Austria – Loquendo, global speech technology provider, and Sonico Mobile, developers of applications for the iPhone, announce the integration of Loquendo TTS in iTranslate, a translating application available in 16 languages which has been especially developed for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

iTranslate is a powerful yet simple-to-use application which translates words, phrases and even whole sentences into the language of your choice. Both the translation and the words being translated are read aloud by means of Loquendo TTS, facilitating the use of iTranslate as a means for cross-language communication or as a tool to assist in language leaning - a key component of which is the association of written words with their correct pronunciation. iTranslate currently supports 43 voices in 16 languages.

Loquendo TTS is fluent, natural-sounding synthetic speech available for any device, in all environments and in the following languages: U.S., U.K. & Australian English, American Spanish, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinian Spanish, Castilian, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, Brazilian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, French, Canadian French and Italian, in both male and female voices, with Arabic and Romanian to follow during 2010, and more under development all the time.

"Sonico Mobile has created an iPhone app which brings instant translations to your phone in many languages, making it an invaluable tool when learning a language, travelling, or communicating with people of different nationalities," says Claudio Genova, Loquendo Sales Manager for Embedded Technologies. "The success of this application is proof that multilingualism has become an important part of people’s work and leisure time, and that speech technologies are playing a vital role in this field."

"Loquendo TTS has enabled us to bring state of the art TTS technology to millions of iPhone users with very little programming effort", says Alexander Marktl, CEO of Sonico Mobile. "Users love simple yet powerful applications and the combination of iTranslate and Loquendo TTS is a perfect example."

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About Sonico Mobile
The developers at Sonico Mobile are experts on the iPhone & iPad platforms, and have created several applications for the iPhone including iTranslate, Music-Quiz and Qype Radar. Their products have seen over 5 million downloads from the Apple App Store, and over 1 million people are using their apps on a regular basis. For more info: www.sonicomobile.com.

About Loquendo - Speech Technology and Services
Awarded Speech Industry ‘Market Leader’ for the past three years, Loquendo provides a complete range of speech technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions – in 28 languages with 70 voices, and constantly growing - helping businesses deliver a next-generation client experience while saving them millions each year.

Loquendo Embedded Technologies are innovative, easy-to-integrate solutions deployed in more than 10 million mobile and on-board navigation systems globally, as well as powering PDAs, assistive devices, virtual Web-assistants and other embedded solutions around the world.

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

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, Spain, Germany and France, and a global network of partners. For more info, and to hear Loquendo TTS for yourself, go to www.loquendo.com.