TURIN, Italy, and LISBON, Portugal - Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Proside, the innovative Portuguese systems integrator, today announced that Proside has incorporated Loquendo's state of the art speech technologies into its flagship solutions.

Proside has consolidated a rich expertise and customer base in the areas of systems integration for Web Portals and Virtual Contact Centre Automation, in particular for the Insurance and Healthcare sector, in which the company has proved its excellence with Customer/Patient Service Management.

Loquendo offers a high quality, multi-lingual portfolio of speech technologies, including Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR which enable systems integrators to provide simple, intuitive voice interaction with information. Loquendo currently supports 16 languages from around the world with additional language technologies under development.

The first deployment of Proside's Powered by Loquendo applications was developed for Cemensa -a key player in the Angolan private healthcare sector. In order to maximize its Medical Centre technical infrastructure, Cemensa adopted Proside's Customer Service Management System to optimise patient waiting time and internal processes and also to generate additional revenue through advertising opportunities.
Proside provided a scalable solution comprising a Kiosk integrated with the internal Clinic Management software, enabling an innovative customer management process, which leverages the voices of Loquendo's Portuguese Text-To-Speech to interact with patients and hospital staff.

About Proside
Proside (www.proside.pt), is a Portuguese company that provides Web Sites and Portals Service, application development and systems integrations. The Proside principal business focus is the Insurance and Healthcare sector. The Proside mission is to provide innovative and value added technology products and solutions for its customers. For now, Proside works in the Portuguese and Angolan Market.

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 the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.