Loquendo announces the release of Embedded Speech Daemon (Loquendo ESD), available on Windows™-based pocket devices. It enables fast and easy access to both Loquendo TTS and ASR Embedded Technologies, within multimodal solutions.
Loquendo ESD is a component for Windows Pocket PC™ 2003 devices, and is available to customers with Loquendo Embedded TTS and Loquendo Embedded ASR speech engines.
XML-driven, ESD offers a socket-based interface, so that by using XML-based standard commands (such as <play> and <reco>), applications have access to speech synthesis and voice recognition.
Loquendo ESD also comes with a plug-in for Pocket Internet Explorer, enabling the browser to seamlessly support multimodal applications.
"Any existing web application can easily be transformed into a multimodal one," says Paolo Coppo, Director of Business Development at Loquendo. "You can greatly enrich the available content by simply adding JavaScript™ calls to the vocal plug-in. The standard navigation by means of stylus and keyboard is hugely enhanced with this new vocal interaction".

Loquendo offers a full range of technological components to rapidly and easily create best-of-breed solutions in 17 languages. Currently available languages include: U.S. and U.K. English, American Spanish, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinian Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish, in both male and female voices.

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 38 voices - with more coming soon.

From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.