Turin and London, February 3rd 2003

Anthropics and Loquendo, the global speech technology company, today announced that Loquendo Speech Technology is to power Anthropics Technology's multi-lingual FaceWave text to speech mobile messaging service. With the integration of Loquendo TTS text to speech engine and Anthropics' FaceWave, mobile phone users and content developers can quickly and easily create talking heads, from video or a still photo combined with text written in many major languages, breathing new life into everyday mobile messaging.

Loquendo TTS provides lifelike voices for the dynamic data and prompts in any kind of voice application and guarantees rapid and easy deployment.
Loquendo will also supply Anthropics with Loquendo ASR speaker-independent automatic speech recognition for use in its Anthropics FaceDirector, an easy to use animation tool for content creators.

Loquendo and Anthropics' adherence to industry standards in developing their respective technologies has facilitated their working together to bring more voices in more languages to Anthropics' FaceServer Text server software, while maintaining FaceWave messaging's low-bandwidth requirement.
Mobile phone users wanting to send their own talking head greetings in their preferred language will be able to choose from a vast range thanks to Anthropics and Loquendo.

The partnership with speech industry leader Loquendo, allows Anthropics to quickly add to the range of languages that FaceWave supports, without sacrificing performance - both of which are critical to meeting the needs of the company's network operator customers across the globe.

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About Anthropics Technology
Anthropics Technology Ltd (www.anthropics.com) is the London-based developer of 3G and 3G-like visual messaging and content services that add a compelling new human dimension to mobile communication. The company markets its technology to top-tier mobile network operators, who seek to quickly and efficiently deliver to their customers exciting new mobile applications and increase their revenues.

Anthropics' pioneering FaceWave technology combines still photos with text or speech to immediately create life-like 'talking heads' with which operators and mobile phone users are enlivening content delivery and everyday mobile messaging. Anthropics technology is inexpensive for operators to deploy and is designed to transmit across very low bandwidths on existing and future GSM, GPRS or 3G mobile networks and mobile devices.

Anthropics is funded by a consortium of investors including Quester VCT, SkyVentures and Skandia Media Invest.

About Loquendo
With over 30 years R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market, providing all the necessary elements to create the ultimate speech experience. Loquendo's high-quality, high performance technologies (Loquendo TTS, Loquendo Embedded TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Speaker Verifier) and platforms guarantee the best solutions in Italian, Castilian Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, U.K. and U.S. English, Greek, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinean, Swedish, Catalan and Mandarin Chinese, with more coming soon.

From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power over 2,000,000 calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.
For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.