Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and INOV, Portugal’s leading player in Voice Platform development - signed a Value Added Reseller Agreement whereby Loquendo's high-quality multilingual Text-To-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition engines will be offered within INOV's state-of-the-art platform. Customers throughout Portugal will enjoy Amalia, the Loquendo TTS' new female persona for the Portuguese language.

INOV’s In-IVR platforms currently support some of the most important products and services of the leading Portuguese fixed and mobile Telecom operators. By using Loquendo’s TTS and ASR, INOV strengthens its offer to new levels of quality and functionality, in a reliable and cost-effective way.

Loquendo's speech technology approach delivers the scalability and reliability required to deploy voice services of any complexity. Featuring a comprehensive, multi-lingual set of technological components such as its speaker-independent Automatic Speech Recognition engine (Loquendo ASR) and its multilingual Text-To-Speech software (Loquendo TTS), Loquendo offers a realistic, "lifelike voice" for the dynamic data and prompts required in today's complex voice applications.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years 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 engine, Loquendo Embedded TTS text to speech engine, Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition) and platforms guarantee the best solutions in 15 languages and 33 voices - 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.

About INOV
INOV – Inesc Inovação is the leading technological infrastructure in Portugal in the areas of Communications, I.T., Monitoring and Navigation. As technological partner INOV helps companies in their search for new business opportunities, through the development of innovative technological skills and solutions with a high added value, crucial to the creation of perceived advantages that pave the way to high degrees of competitiveness.

With more than a decade of experience, INOV’s research & engineering experts have developed innovative solutions for: the Portuguese and Angolan Governments, European Space Agency, Siemens, NEC, ASCOM, Philips, MAN, Portugal Telecom, Vodafone, Optimus, ONITelecom, etc.

For more information, visit www.inov.pt.