TURIN, Italy and BARCELONA, Spain - Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Code Factory, leading provider of software solutions for mobile professionals and the blind, today announced that they are joining forces to deliver best-of-breed applications to the visually impaired. Through this agreement, Code Factory will integrate Loquendo's embedded multilingual Synthetic Speech technology in its wide variety of mobile applications, enriching their user-experience. Users will now be able to enjoy Loquendo's lifelike personas on Code Factory's Mobile Speak and Mobile Speak Pocket.

Code Factory has extensive experience in developing speech-enabled mobile software, from screen readers to hi-tech applications, aiding people with visual disabilities across the globe. Code Factory's solutions are designed to avoid the need for expensive, specialist hardware, and are available at competitive prices.

Loquendo offers a high quality, multi-lingual portfolio of speech technologies, including the Loquendo Embedded TTS that is being integrated by Code Factory. Loquendo embedded TTS currently supports 17 languages from around the world, with additional language technologies under development.

"This partnership is excellent for our products: Mobile Speak, our Symbian OS screen reader, and Mobile Speak Pocket, our screen reader for Pocket PC and smartphones", affirms Eduard Sanchez Palazon, CEO of Code Factory. "Besides providing high-quality multilingual technology, Loquendo also has vast experience in speech applications for the assistive market, and shares our ambitions".
"Code Factory is already one of the leading software companies providing speech-enabled mobile applications worldwide, and is continuously increasing its market growth," said Paolo Coppo, VP of Business Development, Loquendo. "Combining forces will fulfil our joint ambitions and will strengthen Loquendo's positioning in both the mobile applications and the assistive market".

About Code Factory
Code Factory was founded in 1998 and since then has witnessed a spectacular growth in the software market for accessible products. Our software for computers, mobile phones and PDAs are well known in the market. Code Factory's success lies in giving excellent customer support and in responding immediately to the needs of end-users. Among our customers are well known companies and organizations such as ONCE, as well as carriers such as TMN, Vodafone, SFR and many more. Good partnerships help us to provide excellent text-to-speech technology for our products, and to incorporate Braille devices into our software.

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.