Loquendo
Loquendo's Market Share Increases According to Analyst's Firm Preliminary Report

Turin, March 18th, 2005

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, announced that Gartner, Inc. has cited Loquendo as one of the international speech market's major players. Gartner reported that the volume of Loquendo's worldwide port shipments increased by approximately 26.7% during the year 2004 in its latest market statistics report, "Speech Recognition Telephony Software: Worldwide, 2004 (Preliminary) " (*).

"Loquendo is rapidly increasing its market presence leveraging the outstanding quality of its multilingual speech technologies," said Marco Romagnoli, Managing Director of Loquendo S.p.A. "The international reach and technical excellence Loquendo provides is being recognized by an increasing number of customers and partners around the world. We believe these figures reflect the growth of Loquendo's share in the international speech market".

Loquendo offers a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art speech engines for the development of the most efficient self-service applications that cut costs while optimizing customer relations. Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition software are currently available in 16 languages, including U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish in both male and female voices.

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 36 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.

(*) Market Statistics: Speech Recognition Telephony Software, Worldwide, 2004 (Preliminary) by Steve Cramoysan. Published 15 February 2005 © 2005 Gartner, Inc. All Rights Reserved.