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Brazil’s Quatro Rodas Travel Guide Launches Interactive Web Portal Incorporating Loquendo Speech Technology and Bizvox Speech Solutions
November 20th, 2006
Turin, Italy and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Loquendo, leading provider of speech technology, and Bizvox, provider of speech recognition solutions for the telecommunications market, today announced the integration of Loquendo's award-winning text to speech and speech recognition into the website voice portal for the Quatro Rodas Travel Guide.

The Quatro Rodas Guide includes vast amounts of information on every aspect of travel, and much of this information is now available via the Disk G4R voice portal. Bizvox's innovative solution allows customers to access information on the 16,000 businesses that are included in the travel guide, by means of a single phone number charged at local rates from anywhere in Brazil.

The new service uses the Loquendo VoiceXML Platform incorporating Loquendo ASR and Loquendo TTS, and so the Quatro Rodas Travel Guide is now more accessible than ever. Loquendo's new, leading edge, multimedia technologies make G4R ever more user friendly and ever more popular - an indispensable tool in the life of the Brazilian traveller.

Thanks to Bizvox solutions, the user can request whatever information they require and hear it read to them by Loquendo's high quality text to speech, and all for the price of a local call. With this rapid and comprehensive service, users can obtain precise information on the cost of hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions, enabling them to design a personal travel programme and so avoid any unpleasant surprises when on the move. Among additional benefits, the user also receives an SMS with the correct address of the desired location.

About Bizvox
Founded by engineers and marketing professionals, Bizvox is specialized in the development of voice portals, finding solutions for mobile and fixed telephony. The enterprise excels in converging voice and data for the telecommunication market, using the most natural way of communication: speech.

Bizvox provides tools for construction and administration of voice portals, with options to manage downloads, ringtones, truetones and all kinds of content. Focused in the new market tendencies, Bizvox is a dynamic enterprise aimed to attend to the needs of companies, enterprises and people who are up with the voice generation.

For more information about Bizvox visit www.bizvox.com.br.

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 the Loquendo VoxNauta Platform are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 18 languages with 44 voices.

Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line for servers, desktop, PDAs and embedded, guaranteeing the same wide range 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.

For more information about Loquendo, and to hear demos of all the Loquendo voices, go to www.loquendo.com.