Turin, February 12th 2008

Loquendo, global provider of all speech technologies, introduces Allison - the brand new American voice.

Allison, the latest member of the Loquendo family, joins our other US English voices to give enterprises a wider choice and more flexibility, so consolidating the company's position in the American markets and across the world.

Like all of Loquendo's voices, Allison is available for Telephony, Multimedia and Embedded applications: integrators can select the footprint that exactly suits their needs, always assured of the same wide range of expressive voices and languages all with the same core engine.

Allison benefits from the highest quality speech synthesis: unparalleled fluency achieved by concatenation smoothing; truly natural speech with the insertion of pauses and vocal intonations; enhanced pronunciation accuracy thanks to the Morphological Analyser.

Loquendo TTS, a multi award-winning technology, is the only speech synthesis on the market with an emotional component, which gives Loquendo's voices lifelike expression and a wide emotional range.

American English, like all Loquendo's supported languages, fully supports the X-SAMPA phonetic alphabet, as well as the SAMPA variants from TeleAtlas® and Navteq™, specifically designed for use in car navigation systems. This is just one of the reasons why the Loquendo Automotive Solution is found on millions of dashboard devices all over the world.

A recent innovation integrated into the TTS engine is the Dynamic Range Control algorithm, providing improved voice intelligibility in any noisy environment: by the use of simple runtime controls the audio characteristics can be easily fine-tuned - high/low frequencies, compression, etc. - and adapted to specific speakers and audio devices. Voice service developers can now find this useful wizard built into the Loquendo TTS Director tool.

Loquendo TTS is currently available in: U.S. and U.K. English, American Spanish, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinian Spanish, Castilian, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, Brazilian, Portuguese, Italian, Esperanto, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Swedish, Turkish, Canadian French and Polish in both male and female voices, with more under development all the time.

Hear Allison for yourself, or meet the Loquendo TTS family.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years experience in speech technology, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech market. Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Speaker Verification and Loquendo VoxNauta are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 23 languages with 54 voices.

Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line for navigation and handheld devices, desktop PCs and telephony servers, guaranteeing the same portfolio of languages and the same core engine in all these environments.

Many enterprises and carriers worldwide have recognized the Loquendo difference, advanced technologies that power millions of calls every day in telecommunications and enterprise markets across the globe.

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners. For more information about Loquendo, and to hear demos of all the Loquendo voices, go to www.loquendo.com.