TURIN, ITALY - April 14th, 2008

Loquendo, provider of multi-award winning speech technologies worldwide, presents Felipe - the new male Brazilian voice.

Felipe joins Fernanda and Gabriela, Loquendo's female Brazilian voices, in giving Loquendo's clients extended reach in the Brazilian markets and reinforcing the company’s leading position in Latin America with a wide choice of highest quality voices: Brazilian, Argentinian, Chilean, Mexican and American Spanish. This brings the total number of Loquendo voices to 56, with the total number of languages at 23.

Currently available languages include: U.S. and U.K. English, Brazilian, Portuguese, American Spanish, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinian Spanish, Castilian, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, Italian, Esperanto, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Swedish, Turkish, Canadian French and Polish in both male and female voices, with more always under development.

Like all Loquendo voices, Felipe is available for Telephony, Multimedia and Embedded devices. This means integrators can choose the footprint that exactly fits their requirements, whatever the application. All Loquendo technologies come with the same full range of expressive voices and languages all with the same core engine.

Loquendo TTS was the very first to bring truly natural sounding speech to the market, incorporating expressive phrases and paralinguistic sounds that result in an award winning speech synthesis and a far wider emotional range.

Loquendo TTS comes with an easy to use interface - TTS Director – which allows users to simply and quickly edit prompts, to synchronise music or sound effects with speech, to adjust the speaking rate, pitch, etc., and to insert phonetic transcriptions with a user friendly tool – the Lexicon Editor. Voice Creator enables the creation of personalised voices – to match company profile and enable market differentiation.

Hear Felipe for yourself.

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 Embedded Technologies, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 23 languages with 56 voices. Loquendo voice technologies are also available on the Loquendo MRCP Server and on VoiceXML and CCXML platforms.

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.