Global speech technology company Loquendo presents its latest development in the world of vocal technologies: Loquendo Spoken Dialog System (SDS). Loquendo SDS is a dialog management system that extends the power of VoiceXML-based services by enabling more sophisticated dialog capabilities.
Spoken interfaces powered by Loquendo SDS can support mixed-initiative interaction between users and services. Callers can communicate with the spoken language system by natural speech, and by adopting a spontaneous interaction style throughout the dialog. The results include more natural conversations, reduced call time, and overcoming of possible speech recognition errors.
Loquendo SDS is the result of several years of research in the field of speech understanding and human-computer dialog. Several well-known problems of development of friendly user interfaces, such as the need of re-using dialog knowledge for different languages of service deployment, have been solved in Loquendo, and this will reduce the time-to-market of spoken based applications in several languages.
Loquendo has implemented a set of specific tools and tutorials for developing dialog interfaces by using Loquendo SDS. The system is compatible with VoiceXML 1.0 and 2.0.

About 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 engine, Loquendo Embedded TTS text to speech engine, Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition) and platforms guarantee the best solutions in 15 languages and 33 voices - with more coming soon.
From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power over 2,000,000 calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.
For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.