Loquendo, the global speech technology company, presents the latest development for Loquendo ASR technology: the Loquendo Phonetic Learner.

One of today’s problems in vocal applications is that customers formulate their requests with great variability. Since it is difficult to reliably predict a priori the user formulations, Loquendo has developed a software package for detecting, from field data, user formulations that were not foreseen by the application designers.

The main aims of the Loquendo Phonetic Learner are therefore to discover new undefined frequent formulations and to research additional pronunciation variants for the expected formulations. This is particularly useful in case of non-native speakers and regional accents.

The application designers now dispose of a semi-automatic tool able to produce consistent results from field data, which guarantee a dramatic increase in performance on deployed applications. The Loquendo Phonetic Learner processes hours of human to machine interactions and discovers the main linguistic and pronunciation lacks quickly and synthetically. It suggests solutions without performing any expensive transcription activity.

One of Loquendo's goals is to provide integrators with the best voice applications tools for enhancing automatic speech recognition performance and usability in the existing and new voice enabled services.

Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years 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 Embedded TTS, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 15 languages and 34 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.