Loquendo
Meet Saskia, the new Dutch Female Voice!
Loquendo Male and Female Voices Set the Industry Standard for Voice Expressiveness, Quality and Intelligibility

December 23rd 2004

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, is pleased to announce Saskia, the new bubbly Dutch female voice to accompany Willem, the Dutch male persona. Loquendo's multilingual portfolio of lifelike synthetic speech is rich as never before.
"We were really proud when we set the industry standard for text-to-speech technology more than five years ago with the successful launch of Loquendo TTS technology, and now we've done it again with our expressive voices" said Rosanna Duce, VP Marketing & Sale, Loquendo. "The two new expressive voices, Saskia and Willem, are the most human-sounding voices available and provide our customers with a greater variety of TTS options to meet their business needs. Our customers can leverage on High Quality voices to deliver best voice applications: this is not only a major milestone for Loquendo, but the industry at large".
Many customers from numerous sectors, such as telecommunications, banking, voice portals and content providers are currently using Loquendo TTS. Also suited for e-mail, personal assistants, talking heads, unified messaging, mobile and CRM applications, Loquendo TTS is available in 16 different languages, in both male and female voices, and runs on all relevant operating systems.
To listen to the synthetic voices of Saskia and Willem and their expressivities, please click here.

To meet the Loquendo TTS family, please click here.


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.