TURIN, ITALY - March 10th, 2008

Loquendo, global provider of multi-award winning speech technologies, presents Fernanda - the new female Brazilian voice.

Fernanda joins Loquendo's broad range of synthetic voices for the Portuguese and Spanish speaking world – reinforcing Loquendo’s leading position in the Latin American markets with a wide choice of highest quality voices: Mexican, Argentinian, Chilean and American Spanish, as well as Gabriela, Loquendo’s other Brazilian voice. This brings the total number of voices in the Loquendo portfolio to 55, while the total number of languages is 23.

Currently available languages include: 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.

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

Like all of Loquendo's voices, Fernanda is available for Telephony, Multimedia and Embedded applications, allowing integrators to choose the footprint that exactly fits their requirements, whatever the application. All Loquendo technologies carry the same wide range of high-quality voices and languages all with the same core engine.

Loquendo text to speech comes with an easy to use interface - TTS Director - allowing users to quickly modify their text by means of a listen and edit procedure, to add synchronised music or sound effects, to adjust the speaking rate, timbre, pitch, and to easily insert the correct phonetic pronunciation with a user friendly tool – the Lexicon Editor. Integrators can even create their own personalised voices with the Voice Creator – to reflect company profile and enable market differentiation.

Hear Fernanda 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 55 voices. Loquendo voice technologies are also available on Loquendo MRCP, 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.