Turin, March 17th 2003

Loquendo technology is one of the attractions featured at the recently inaugurated exhibition on the history of the Italian language, on show now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The exhibition which bears the title of a quote from Dante's Inferno ("Dove il sì suona"), takes visitors on a fascinating journey into the world of the Italian people and their language - and its evolution from its origins to the present day.
Loquendo technology was chosen by the exhibition's curators to be the "voice" and "ears" of the Automatic Voice Processing section of the show. Loquendo TTS synthetic speech engine tells visitors the story of the evolution of speech technologies and surprises them with the lifelike quality of its many personas through a variety of fun exhibits.
Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR speaker-independent speech recognition also power the exhibition's virtual contact centre, which can be reached throughout the country by dialling a toll-free number.

About Loquendo
With over 30 years R&D expertise, Loquendo (www.loquendo.com) is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market, providing all the necessary elements to create the ultimate speech experience.
Loquendo's high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS text to speech engine,
Loquendo Embedded TTS text to speech engine, Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition,
Loquendo Speaker Verifier) and platforms guarantee the best solutions in Italian, Castilian Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, U.K. and U.S. English, Greek, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinean, Swedish, Catalan and Mandarin Chinese, 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.