Loquendo, the global speech technology company, announces its latest development in high-quality, multilingual synthetic speech: Loquendo TTS has been ported to the Symbian OS™ v9 Operating System.

Symbian OS™ v9 is the major new release from Symbian OS™ for smartphones, which boasts enhanced security, reliability and performance features. The porting of Loquendo embedded TTS to Symbian OS™ v9, is yet another of the many recent advances of Loquendo TTS.

The new features of Loquendo embedded TTS for Symbian OS™ v9 include the same powerful text analysis capability as the server version alongside accurate semantic analysis and lexicon file customisation. Loquendo embedded TTS for Symbian OS™ provides full multilingual capability, supporting the TeleAtlas® and Navteq™ SAMPA phonetic alphabets, thus increasing the quality of speech rendering when reading out addresses, signage and points of interest - in any language - leveraging Loquendo TTS mixed language capability.

With Loquendo embedded TTS for Symbian OS™ v9, users enjoy the benefits of Loquendo’s emotional synthetic voices, which enable expressive content such as greetings, apologies, etc., to sound truly lifelike, for an even more natural effect.

Loquendo offers a single set of languages and voices both on the device side and the server side, allowing mobile operators to achieve a unique and consistent branded image, regardless of the architectural solution. Indeed, Loquendo technology enables service providers to guarantee a totally seamless service (same languages, same voices, etc.) even in mixed environments, where part of the voice content is originated by the network and the rest is generated locally from the handset. This is yet another feature that sets Loquendo apart from its competitors.

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/CCXML Platform are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 20 languages with 47 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.