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Turin, June 29th, 2005
TURIN, Italy and DORDRECHT, The Netherlands - Loquendo, the global
speech technology company, today announced that it has entered into
a partnership with New Bridges, Voice Processing Engineers. This
agreement establishes the latter as a Value Added Reseller of Loquendo
TTS and Loquendo ASR multilingual speech technologies for the European
multimedia and telephony speech markets.
Through this agreement, New Bridges will be offering its next-generation
IVR solutions to call center providers throughout Europe. Loquendo's
high-quality, multilingual speech technologies will open-up new
markets for the leading Dutch IVR player, which will offer its solutions
to call-center service providers mainly in the banking sector, as
well as a range of solutions for the disabled and info-kiosks.
"We are very pleased to have teamed up with
Loquendo, a company that is a leading player in the speech technologies
industry. This new cooperation is very interesting for both companies.
New Bridges has a strong presence in applications for the financial
market. With the power of Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR, we can
offer excellent solutions for both voice portals and self-service
applications", said John Duurkoop, Commercial Director at New
Bridges.
"We look forward to leveraging our partnership
with New Bridges and to establishing a strong presence in the Netherlands"
said Rosanna Duce, Vice President at Loquendo. "The Netherlands
is an interesting market in terms of speech-enabled applications
and this partnership reflects Loquendo's vested interests in the
country."
Loquendo offers a full range of technological components to rapidly
and easily create best-of-breed solutions in 16 languages. Currently
available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan,
Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, German, French,
Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish
in both male and female voices.
About
New Bridges - Voice Processing Engineers
Since 1992, New Bridges develops and installs
applications where IT and telecommunications meet each other. Although
the high grade level of technological knowledge is characteristic,
the approach isn't less important: "Create the optimal solution
for customer, employees involved and callers".
For more information, visit www.newbridges.nl.
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.
For More information:
New Bridges
Voice Processing Engineers
John Duurkoop, Commercial Director
Tel.: 0031 78 654 87 87
E-mail: johndu@newbridges.nl
Website: www.newbridges.nl
Loquendo
Ornella Ambrois, Marketing Manager
Tel.: 0039 0112913111
E-mail: ornella.ambrois@loquendo.com
Website: www.loquendo.com
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