Turin, Italy and Madrid, Spain - Loquendo, global speech technology provider, and Cystelcom, provider of solutions for contact centres and 3G telephony, today announced the integration of Loquendo text to speech into Cystelcom's Veedia™ platform for mobile video solutions.

The Cystelcom Systems Veedia™ platform, distributed in Spain by Multichannel Technologies, provides a complete range of applications for service providers, mobile operators and companies offering interactive video telephony services for 3G users and broadband networks supporting IP.

Veedia™ provides advanced video services, including protocol conversion, media conversion and streaming, application logic and third party integration. It supports industry standards and is compatible with all terminals from video conferencing systems to 3G phones.

With the Veedia™ platform, operators can launch a wide range of 3G services with minimal time to market. 3G phone users can then access the latest video applications, both live and pre-recorded: customers can connect with other users, send and receive video messages, access video newspapers, monitor closed circuit camera systems, etc., all leveraging on Loquendo's highly intelligible and human-like text to speech.

"Our research and development division goes to great lengths to enhance performance and improve the features of our entire product range," says Manuel Cuenca, Director General of Cystelcom Systemas. "Loquendo's highly expressive and natural sounding text to speech has helped us to create a high quality product that clients love using."

"Cystelcom Systems have developed a complete solution that is both advanced and user friendly," says Rosanna Duce, Loquendo Vice President. "With Veedia, a large number of video applications are provided straight out of the box, so that service providers can launch cutting edge services within a greatly reduced time frame."

Loquendo text to speech technology is the only speech product on the market that offers an emotional component, known as Gilded TTS, able to deliver lifelike synthetic speech that is truly expressive. Loquendo TTS makes any speech application intelligible, natural sounding and easy to use, and is available in many languages, currently including: U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian Spanish and Catalan, Italian, German, French, Canadian French, Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Mexican, Brazilian, Argentinian, Chilean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese and Polish - in both male and female voices - with many more coming soon.

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 VoiceXML and CCXML Platform are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions whatever the application.

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.

About Cystelcom
Cystelcom is the leader provider of intelligent business communication solutions for the Contact Center.

Cystelcom develops Contact Center products and solutions that improve the overall business performance of multi-channel contact centers by tying together customers' interactions and business criteria to achieve key business objectives.

As leading innovators, Cystelcom provides stand alone and/or integrated solutions for back-office and video contact center 3G to IP to increase business efficiency, reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.

Furthermore, Cystelcom bring expertise in areas such as: customer service, workforce management, quality-monitoring processes, training procedures, productivity improvements, revenue management, strategy development, and contact center analysis/evaluation.

For further information, please visit www.cystelcom.com/english/index.php.