Loquendo, the global speech technology provider, announces the new release of its technology server (Loquendo MRCP Server), fully compliant with the latest draft (draft 09) of the MRCPv2 standard recently released by IETF.

The Media Resource Control Protocol - Version 2 (MRCPv2) is the vendor-neutral, IETF protocol, for the control of distributed ASR, TTS and Speaker Verification (SV) resources. The IETF Speech Services Control work-group has recently produced a final draft that can be considered complete. This latest version of MRCP v2 standard incorporates better-defined methods and events that are fully VoiceXML 2.0 compliant.

Loquendo MRCP Server enables integrators to choose what they need from Loquendo's technological components range, and to exploit them using a flexible, standard-based client-server architecture. This modular architecture makes Loquendo MRCP Server independent from ASR/TTS (Automatic Speech Recognition/ Text to Speech) engines, languages and voices, allowing the seamless upgrade to new technology releases, and the addition of new languages (ASR) and voices (TTS).

Loquendo is always at the forefront of technology, and always strives to support speech standards: the Loquendo MRCP Server technology-server, fully compatible with this latest version of the protocol, will allow our customers to benefit from a complete set of functionalities, simplifying the process of technology integration as well as providing superior performance solutions.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years of R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 17 languages and 39 voices - with more coming soon.

From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.