October 10th, 2005

TURIN, Italy, and MUNICH, Germany - Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and ComLet, the German Systems Integrator, today announced that they have entered into an agreement which enables ComLet to integrate Loquendo’s multilingual Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engines into its flagship CallPro® Voice Portal solution.

The CallPro® Voice Portal solution is universally applicable and will provide Comlet customers with greater speech quality for all their automated systems requirements.
ComLet has a rich portfolio of integration success stories in the man-machine-dialogue systems field of the automotive-industry. Their "Embedded-Systems" division creates high-end applications in the infotainment field for leading German automotive manufacturers. ComLet uses its automotive expertise to support customers in a variety of areas, including consulting, project management and implementation.

Loquendo offers a high quality, multi-lingual portfolio of speech technologies, including Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR which enable systems integrators to provide simple, intuitive voice interaction with information. Loquendo currently supports 16 languages from around the world with additional language technologies under development.

"Only high-quality, state-of-the-art technologies are integrated into the CallPro® communication-platform" said Steffen Fromm, Marketing & Sales Manager at ComLet. "Both the automatic speech recognition and synthetic speech technology from Loquendo guarantee the kind of performance required to fulfil our customers’ demands for the highest quality standards".

"Bringing together our companies' competencies and technologies will open up interesting market segments for both" said Rosanna Duce, Vice President, Loquendo. "In the context of this cooperation, ComLet customers will benefit from a range of diverse solutions integrating Loquendo technology. Through this alliance, we expect to increase the market positioning of both our companies within the German telecoms market".

ComLet is currently developing a range of services for customers in the E-government and Banking sectors. These services will be demonstrated at the Voice Day 2005 Conference, which will be held in Bonn on October 20th and 21st.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years cutting-edge R&D experience, global speech-technologies leader Loquendo provides all the technologies required for creating the ultimate speech-interaction solutions. Loquendo's best-in-breed technologies - Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Speaker Verification - and the VoxNauta Platform enable integrators to rapidly and easily create best-in-breed solutions in 16 languages. Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean 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 is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy. It is the leading technological partner for integrators in the speech solutions field throughout Europe, the U.S. & Latin America. Many enterprises and carriers worldwide have recognized the Loquendo difference and Loquendo solutions currently automate millions of calls per day.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.

About Comlet GmbH
ComLet GmbH was founded in 2001 by professors and alumni of the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern computer science department. Prof. Dr. Manuel Duque-Antòn and Prof. Dr. Manh Tien Tran are the managing directors of the company, which currently numbers 25 employees. As a typical university's spin-off ComLet is closely involved in research and development activities. Using an ongoing know-how transfer, the company has the ability to identify current trends and possibilities in the IT-environment at an early stage and transform them into innovative solutions and services. ComLet is a qualified partner in the man-machine-dialogue field and has a rich track record of successful business activity in the automotive-industry.

For more information, visit www.comlet.de.