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Turin, March 16th, 2005
Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Kirusa, the
leading provider of multimodal platforms enabling wireless applications
delivery, today announced a strategic partnership leveraging Loquendo's
multilingual speech technologies to deliver enhanced multimodal
solutions to customers across the globe. The partnership between
Loquendo and Kirusa enables carriers and enterprises to offer their
users an even richer multimodal experience by introducing quality
voice services that drive customer loyalty and new revenue generation.
The reach of Kirusa’s portfolio of solutions is now even broader
with the integration of Loquendo speech technologies, which include
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 Castilian, Catalan,
Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, Portuguese,
U.S. and U.K. English, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese,
and Swedish in both male and female voices.
Enabling wireless carriers, service providers, and enterprises to
offer applications with integrated voice and visual interfaces,
Kirusa’s multimodal solutions allow mobile users to simultaneously
or alternatively use voice, text, graphics, keypad, and stylus to
interface with wireless services and applications. The solution
integrates seamlessly with industry standard technologies such as
SMS, HTML, XHTML, VoiceXML, and HTTP, and supports all major mobile
networks, including CDMA, CDMA 1x/3x, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, FLASH-OFDM®,
WiFi, and others. Enabling compelling multimodal end-user applications
on a wide variety of handsets from all major manufacturers - carriers
and enterprises offering this dynamic service are able to monetize
voice and data applications immediately. The solution leverages
the new smart and 3G devices, including those based on platforms
such as J2ME, Microsoft’s SmartPhone™, Symbian™,
Qualcomm’s BREW™, and Microsoft’s PocketPC, while
also working with devices already widely deployed in the networks.
The integrated multimodal solution from Kirusa
and Loquendo is available for sale immediately. For sale enquires,
contact Loquendo or Kirusa.
About Kirusa
Kirusa, Inc. is a multimodal solutions company that has developed
industry leading multimodal technology (with several patents pending)
for the delivery of applications using multimodal interfaces. This
next generation of wireless technology allows users to customize
the presentation of information on wireless devices by either alternating,
or simultaneously receiving information through visual and voice
interfaces. Kirusa develops the unique Kirusa Voice SMS multimodal
application, and supports third party developers of multimodal applications.
Kirusa's customers include the worlds' leading telecom carriers
and enterprises. Kirusa is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey and
was founded by telecom and Internet industry veterans from AT&T,
Lucent and Vodafone Airtouch.
For more information about Kirusa please call its headquarters at
+1 (732) 623-2118 or visit www.kirusa.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 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.
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