Turin, Agust 2nd, 2005

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Tele Atlas, the worldwide leader in digital maps and dynamic location content, are pleased to announce that Loquendo's speech technologies (both in server-based and embedded versions) are now fully compliant with the speech-enabled maps of TeleAtlas - PhonoMultiNet (SAMPA-UCL phonetic alphabet).

This new feature of Loquendo TTS enables integrators to guarantee the correct pronunciation of addresses, signpost information, points-of-interest, thanks to Loquendo’s unique, patented Mixed Language Capability technology.

Loquendo TTS is the only text-to-speech engine capable of correctly reading any address in any language, with any voice. For instance, Loquendo’s German voice can correctly read French or English addresses, without any action required on the integrator’s part.

Moreover, in its effort to ensure the excellence of its speech technologies for Automotive Navigation Applications and Telematics, Loquendo has included additional sector-specific capacity in the Loquendo TTS engine. Several hundred new predefined navigation messages have been recorded, meaning that sentences like "turn right after 200 meters" will be automatically detected by the engine and read with pre-recorded voice quality.

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.

About Tele Atlas
Founded in 1984, Tele Atlas is a worldwide leading provider of digital maps and dynamic location content for a variety of navigation, location-based services and geospatial products and database solutions. Tele Atlas' database is a highly accurate reproduction of today's street network, enabling turn-by-turn route guidance on a high percentage of European, U.S. and Canadian roads.

Tele Atlas' compatibility with major navigation systems and its open system design have placed the company's technology at the heart of both consumer and business-to-business applications worldwide. From logistics to marketing to traffic and fleet management, in almost every sector of today's business and consumer world, Tele Atlas has built a reputation as an acknowledged pioneer and leader in the digital map industry.

For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com.