Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and LARTEC, Spain's leading player in Home Domotics development - signed a Value Added Reseller Agreement whereby Loquendo's high-quality multilingual Text-To Speech will be offered within LARTEC's state-of-the-art solutions. Households throughout Spain will enjoy Jorge and Jordi new Loquendo's male personas for the Spanish language.

Within the context of this agreement Lartec is releasing the first home automation system, which talks in any language and enables one of its principal attractions: the ability to communicate interactively with users.

Lartec's home automation systems allow users to control their homes in an easy and intuitive manner. Thanks to a 15" colour TFT tactile screen equipped with stereo speakers, the system manages single home elements centrally, as well as accessing a whole range of services on the web. Easy home environment management is now a reality with Lartec's systems.

Loquendo's technology enables the home automation system to talk to users, informing them about their home environment, and even alerting them by phone should any incident occur during their absence.

Loquendo's speech technology approach delivers the scalability and reliability required to deploy voice applications of any complexity. Featuring a comprehensive, multi-lingual set of technological components such as its multilingual Text-To-Speech software (Loquendo TTS), Loquendo offers a realistic, "lifelike voice" for the dynamic data and prompts required in today's 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 Lartec
The national enterprise Lartec possesses delegations in the Spanish cities of Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona. Lartec is planning for this year the opening of new delegations in Marbella, Valladolid, and Bilbao.
It has to be emphasised that the new entrance of the Grupo Inova Capital and other minority investors from the total investment group, which until now belonged to Obradis group, actually leads to consolidate Lartec as the major home automation capital enterprise of the country. In other words, Lartec has a total capital of 2 million Euros.
More informationplease visit Lartec website at http://www.lartec.es.