Turin, May 13rd, 2005

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, announces the development of its breakthrough Speaker Verification and Identification technology, especially tailored for the Security World.
Loquendo’s new voice biometrics-based solutions enable the identification of speakers through a simple phone call, both for commercial purposes - such as premium services authentication - and for Law Enforcement requirements.

Loquendo Free Speech Identification (LFSI) technology operates on naturally spoken telephone conversation, with no linguistic constraints. With the support of its language-independent Speaker Identification Engine it rapidly and reliably matches recorded calls against a database of voiceprints.
This powerful combination of state-of-the-art technologies is offered in an easy-to-use package to enable organizations involved in investigation activities to broaden their operational capacity while optimizing the allocation of human resources, which means boosted efficiency and significant return on investments.

Loquendo Free Speech Identification technology is currently being used in strategic applications by selected customers.
For more information, contact security@loquendo.com.

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.