Loquendo is proud to announce the porting of Loquendo TTS 7 to six major languages.

Loquendo TTS 7, already released, saw a rewriting of the core algorithms and a fundamental restructuring of the core speech engine, and this new technology has now been made available in 6 languages.

11 Loquendo voices benefit from an impressive array of new features: improved fluency achieved by concatenation smoothing, heightened naturalness by the insertion of pauses and vocal intonations to correspond with the text, and enhanced pronunciation accuracy thanks to the Morphological Analyser, which works at word-unit level to resolve pronunciation irregularities and ambiguities.

The sampling frequency of each voice can also be selected, according to your available memory, from 8Khz, 16Khz and now also 32Khz, while for the audio output it's now possible to choose any sampling frequency, giving a dramatically enhanced sound quality and naturalness.

And that's not all: you now have control over the timbre, in addition to the speaking rate, pitch and volume etc., allowing you to personalise the voice to your application needs, giving Loquendo speech technology even more flexibility. With a little experimentation, you'll find you can transform any of these 11 Loquendo voices even more radically - for example into a child's voice, an elderly voice, or a cartoon character. Then, by simply saving your changes, you can create your own personalised voice with characteristics that reflect your company's profile.

In addition, a range of audio controls, such as reverb and stereo, can be applied to a voice application. These effects can be applied both to background music and to spoken text to give the impression, for example, of a cavernous stadium or a small church, while the use of stereo can position voices around this space to create a wide depth of field. Music is now produced in full stereo and can be positioned from left to right as desired, as well as synchronized with the reading of the text, looped, paused, restarted, or faded in and out.

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

Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinian and American Spanish, Italian, German, French, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish - in both male and female voices. Many more are under development to give customers expanded reach in today's global marketplace.

Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.