Turin, Agust 1st, 2005

Loquendo announces the release of standards-compliant Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) v2 support for Loquendo speech technologies - including Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, and Loquendo Speaker Verification - through its software-only server solution Loquendo MRCP Server 7.0.

Loquendo Speech technologies support all the most advanced standards in the speech scenario. This includes MRCP v1 up to the latest draft provided by IETF (mrcp-07), as well as the more recent IETF standard MRCP v2 (mrcpv2-06), which is based on SIP and also provides support for Speaker Verification and Identification technologies.

“The Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) is a standard for managing speech technology servers in distributed system architectures that is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance. MRCP enables integrators to deliver total caller satisfaction, while significantly cutting costs and protecting investment”, said Loquendo’s Vice President Rosanna Duce. "By drawing on the very latest open standards, such as MRCP v2 and VoiceXML 2.1, Loquendo is in a position to deliver the best core speech technology, enabling our partners to create excellent quality self-service telephony applications, for any domain."

Loquendo MRCP Server 7.0’s full support of the most common standards for technology integration, combined with the full compliance of Loquendo technologies to SGRS (either XML and ABNF), SISR 1.0 and SSML 1.0, removes any legacy from customer investments, while minimizing technology integration efforts.

Loquendo MRCP Server 7.0 is now available for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Linux Red Hat 7.3.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years of R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 16 languages and 36 voices - with more coming soon.
From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.