Turin, 4th May 2009 - Loquendo, leading speech technology provider worldwide, will be participating at TechFOr 2009 – the International Exhibition for Security Technologies, 11-14th May 2009 at the new Fiera Roma Centre in Rome, Italy. TechFOr 2009, in its second year, is the foremost international event organised in Italy exclusively dedicated to Defence, Civil Protection and Homeland Security technologies.

During the conference, organised with the sponsorship of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Loquendo will be presenting VARS, “Voice Analysis Run-Time Server” - the solution developed by Loquendo able to automatically identify, in real-time or off-line, telephone conversations of investigative interest, according to the search criteria selected by the operator.

To this end, Loquendo is pleased to invite players from the Intelligence and Security sector to the VARS presentation on 13th May, 3-4pm at TechFOr. The event will be introduced by an officer of the Italian Carabinieri.

The launch of VARS – the next generation speech technology for security - confirms Loquendo’s commitment to the development of innovative solutions in speech technology and, in particular, of integrated solutions for Automatic Speaker Recognition, Language Recognition, and Keyword Spotting.

"Loquendo Intelligence Solutions have reached a level of technological maturity that makes them highly effective tools for assisting the daily operations of law enforcement agencies in their global fight against organised crime and terrorism," says Luciano Piovano, Loquendo VP for Government Intelligence Solutions. "To that end, I would like to thank the Techfor organising committee and the Italian Carabinieri for this special opportunity to showcase some of the most advanced developments that our national industry has been able to create for Intelligence Communications Analysis in the investigative sector."

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 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 platform. Furthermore, Loquendo TTS and ASR are available as Loquendo Embedded Technologies for deploying speech applications in embedded and mobile environments.

Law enforcement agencies worldwide employ Loquendo Intelligence Solutions to create sophisticated filters able to identify those communications most likely to be relevant to an investigation, so narrowing the search and keeping costs down.

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.