October 26th, 2007
Loquendo, leading provider of speech technologies worldwide, is pleased to announce the appointment of
Marco Antonio Piña Sánchez as Iberia Relations Manager.

Marco Antonio has more than 10 years sales experience with companies such as Thales, Progress Software, Vignette, Softgal and, before his appointment to Loquendo, with Tecnocom as Partners & Marketing Director.

Following Loquendo's expansion strategy announced in July, the company is broadening its already strong presence in Spain and Portugal in response to the rapid expansion of these markets in the speech technology sector.

In terms of speech technologies, Loquendo is market leader in Spain and Portugal in many sectors and vertical markets in the voice application industry, with customers such as Telefónica Soluciones, ICEX, Prosodie Iberia, Comunidad de Madrid, Caixa Galicia and ONCE. Within this framework, Marco Antonio will use his extensive experience to consolidate on Loquendo's success and to oversee its continued growth in these and other sectors.

Loquendo TTS and ASR technologies reflect the company's strong presence in the Spanish and Portuguese markets: Loquendo TTS boasts a wide choice of expressive and lifelike voices in Castilian Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Valencian and Galician, and together with Loquendo ASR it provides reliable one-stop-shopping voice technologies to all partners.

The Loquendo portfolio presently includes 21 languages and 54 voices, with several more set for release in 2008 and additional languages always under development.

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 are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions whatever the application. Loquendo technologies are available standalone, or integrated into Loquendo MRCP Server, or within Loquendo VoxNauta Platform.

Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line from desktop PCs and telephony servers to navigation and handheld devices, 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 and our advanced technologies power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets across the globe.

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the U.S., Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners. For more information about Loquendo, and to hear demonstrations of all Loquendo voices, visit www.loquendo.com.