Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and CreaLog, the leading provider of Voice Portal Solutions in Europe, today announced that they have signed an agreement whereby CreaLog will integrate Loquendo's multilingual speech technologies into its flagship product CreaVoice® Voice Portal.

The CreaLog Voice Portal Platform is powered by Loquendo Technologies - including Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR and Loquendo Speaker Verification - and is the basis for application-specific and individual solutions. CreaVoice® manages the caller dialogue and is responsible for coordinating all activities, including speech recognition, synthetic speech, speaker verification, voice-logging and conferencing.

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.

Leveraging the VoiceXML and web-controlled CreaVoice Platform, CreaLog offers advanced Solutions for "Customer-Self-Service by phone" to a wide variety of sectors, including Phone-Banking and Brokerage, Intelligent Call Center Support and Automation, Mass Calling Platforms for Carriers, Interactive TV-Auction Solutions for Media and Entertainment, Voice Portal Solutions for Retail, Industry and Travel, Voice Government and Utilities.

"For our customers, the quality of Loquendo's emotional text-to-speech technology is a fundamental technical breakthrough" said Michael Kloos, CEO of CreaLog. "With this technology, CreaLog Solutions provide customers with a far greater degree of natural dialogue with respect to other technologies available on the market".

"Customers choosing the implementation of a CreaLog Voice Portal powered by Loquendo technologies, can count on reliable, high-performing technology, which meets highest standards" said Rosanna Duce, Vice President, Loquendo. "We are certain that this alliance will greatly benefit CreaLog customers in all fields".

About CreaLog
CreaLog is the leading provider of Voice Portal solutions in Europe, with references in 15 countries. CreaLog's VoiceXML-based and web-controlled Voice Portals are running at more than 280 leading customers across 30 sectors. They use natural-language speech recognition and next generation Text-to-Speech. CreaLog's Voice Portals, Unified Messaging and CTI-Solutions for Enterprises and Carriers with more than 26.000 installed Lines, achieved the "Best of CeBit 2005 Award". CreaLog's customer Sparda Bank received the "Bankmarketingpreis 2005" - Award for their best-in-class Phonebanking Solution "CreaVoice Banking".

For more information, visit www.crealog.com.

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 16 languages and 38 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.