Loquendo, leading innovator in speech technology, is proud to present Kerem, the brand new male Turkish voice. With the voice of Kerem, Loquendo extends its reach into the European market and worldwide, enabling the company to support its partners ever more effectively in the expanding Turkish market, and around the world for Turkish speaking users.

Kerem is the newest member of the Loquendo family, bringing the total number of languages in the Loquendo portfolio to 21, with the total number of voices now at 51.

Loquendo is the very first speech company to offer an 'emotional' component, a major advance in speech technology giving Loquendo's voices truly lifelike expression and a far wider emotional range.

Kerem is the latest of our voices to be enriched with "expressive cues", Loquendo's innovative and award-winning tool for achieving truly natural sounding speech. Kerem, like many other Loquendo voices, can pronounce many everyday expressions in a more lively and expressive way; he can even be made to laugh, sigh, hiccup or cry, to name just a few possibilities. The prompt designer can type in the phrase with the correct punctuation, or can choose the expression they want from a user friendly drop-down list.

Like all of Loquendo's voices, Kerem is available for Telephony, Multimedia and Embedded applications, allowing integrators to select the footprint that best suits their requirements, and guaranteeing the same wide range of high-quality voices and languages all with the same core engine.

Kerem will be presented at SpeechTEK 2007 in New York, 20-23rd of August, Booth #509.

Hear Kerem for yourself or 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 Speaker Verification and the Loquendo VoiceXML/CCXML Platform are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 21 languages with 51 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.