Turin, February 21st 2008

Loquendo, global speech technology provider, launches Release 7.4 of Loquendo Embedded ASR for Automotive, a small footprint ASR with enhanced recognition accuracy in noisy in-car environments, and significantly faster response time even on low-capability hardware.

Loquendo Embedded ASR for Automotive has been thoroughly adapted to the vehicle environment with the associated engine, traffic and airflow noises. The result is an in-car speech recognition performance that is robust, accurate and fast.

With sat-navs, Personal Navigation Devices, voice-enabled phones and MP3 players now commonplace in vehicles of all kinds - and with voice control being extended to many other areas such as cruise control, air-con, etc. - there has never been a greater demand for telematics solutions offering high performance speech recognition. Loquendo ASR for Automotive is multilingual, robust and easy to integrate - making it the perfect solution for any automotive system, and improving safety by giving drivers eyes-free and hands-free control over any on-board device.

Loquendo Embedded ASR for Automotive supports all major operating systems for mobile devices: Windows™, Windows Mobile™ 5 and 6, Windows CE™ 5 and 6, Windows Automotive™, and Linux.

Loquendo ASR for Automotive is also available, integrated with Loquendo TTS for Automotive, in the Loquendo Automotive Speech Solution - modular and flexible like all Loquendo products, it offers high quality speech recognition, combines pre-recorded prompts with truly lifelike TTS, and supports Teleatlas® and Navteq™ Sampa phonetic alphabets.

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.