Turin, June 14th, 2005

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, announces the opening of its new Paris office in response to the increasing demand for Loquendo’s market-leading speech technologies in France. Also to this effect, Mr. Philippe Poux has joined the company’s international team to distribute Loquendo technology throughout the country. Mr. Poux has extensive expertise in the speech technologies market.

Loquendo technology has been in strong demand from French systems integrators for several years now and Loquendo has successfully asserted its presence on the French speech market. Loquendo is the first speech technology player to offer the French-speaking market truly communicative synthetic speech with the Expressive French voice of Loquendo TTS, Juliette.

Click here to listen to Juliette.

“The quality and performance of Loquendo technology, especially as regards the French language, has met with great enthusiasm in France, where there is strong demand for our high-quality technology”, said Rosanna Duce, Sales and Marketing Vice President at Loquendo. “Loquendo strongly believes in working closely with partners and supporting them to build their local market presence. This new development enables us to give our French partners all the support they need for total speech success.”

Loquendo offers a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art speech engines for the development of the most efficient self-service applications that cut costs while optimising customer relations. Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition software are currently available in 16 languages, including U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish in both male and female voices.

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.