The new release of the Loquendo VoiceXML platform now offers our clients outstanding flexibility: by means of a user friendly, message-based protocol interface, Loquendo's voice platform now allows the simple integration of any third party IVR. This means that clients can retain their existing IVR and at the same time benefit from all the advantages of Loquendo's VoxNauta VoiceXML platform.

Loquendo VoxNauta 7.0, already certified by the VoiceXML Forum as VoiceXML 2.0 compliant, now offers many new, advanced features: it supports the new VoiceXML 2.1, which comprises several additional functionalities, and furthermore is bundled with the latest versions of Loquendo ASR and Loquendo TTS technologies (integrated via MRCP v2).

It is also able to allocate speech resources dynamically, comes complete with a new, easy to use management console, and fully supports all relevant IETF and W3C speech standards.

Loquendo partners wishing to leverage on their own IVR platform can now exploit the outstanding potential of a state of the art VoiceXML browser and, at the same time, leverage on Loquendo's ASR and TTS leading-edge technologies.

This gives our potential partners additional flexibility by extending their platform portfolios and giving them support for VoiceXML vocal services, so saving the cost of developing and maintaining a VoiceXML browser, and also avoiding the need to integrate ASR, SV and TTS technologies.

The protocol interface available on Loquendo VoxNauta series 7 (known as DAP - Dynamic Access Protocol) is fully backwards-compatible to the Loquendo VoxNauta series 6 protocol interface, allowing our customers a seamless upgrade to this new version of the Loquendo VoiceXML platform.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the very forefront of global speech technology. Its high quality, high-performance platforms and technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 17 languages and 39 voices.

Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinian and American Spanish, Italian, German, French, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish - in both male and female voices. Many more are under development to give customers expanded reach in today's global marketplace.

Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information about Loquendo, and to hear demos of all the Loquendo voices, go to www.loquendo.com.