June 12th, 2008

Loquendo, global speech technology provider, releases Sven, the new male Swedish voice.
Sven joins Annika, Loquendo's recently upgraded female Swedish voice, reinforcing the positioning of Loquendo technologies in the Swedish markets. Loquendo will launch the Finnish and Danish languages later in 2008, strengthening the company's presence across Europe and providing clients with a broad choice of languages and voices for the Scandinavian markets.

Like all Loquendo voices, Sven is available for Telephony, Multimedia and Embedded devices, with the memory footprint to perfectly suit requirements, whatever the application. All Loquendo technologies come with the same wide range of expressive voices and languages, all with the same core engine.

Loquendo TTS is multiple award-winning speech synthesis, with an expressiveness and naturalness that is unrivalled in the industry. It comes with a user-friendly interface that offers a variety of tools and features, for example: Voice Creator allows you to adjust voice pitch, speaking rate and volume with just a few clicks of the mouse to create your own personalised voices; the Audio Mixer permits you to mix and synchronise your voice prompts with any music and sound effects; Lexicon Editor is an easy-to-use tool for inserting phonetic transcriptions.

Loquendo TTS is currently available in the following languages: U.S. and U.K. English, Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Canadian French, American Spanish, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinian Spanish, Castilian, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, Brazilian, Portuguese, Italian, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Turkish and Polish in both male and female voices, with Finnish, Danish and Russian to follow during 2008, and more always under development.

Hear Sven for yourself.
Hear Annika, the Swedish female voice, for yourself.

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About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years experience in speech technology, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech market. Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Embedded Technologies, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies in 23 languages with 57 voices, that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions whatever the application.

Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line from desktop PCs and telephony servers to navigation and handheld devices, guaranteeing the same portfolio of languages and the same core engine in these environments.

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 U.S., Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners.

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