Turin, June 23rd, 2005

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and VoiceObjects, worldwide leader in Voice Application Management Systems (VAMS), today announced the interoperability between Loquendo’s multilingual VoiceXML platform VoxNauta™ and VoiceObjects X5™.

VoiceObjects helps to expand telephony as a mass media just as it already supports innovative business models today, including Voice Commerce and the providing of Voice Applications Service. With VoiceObjects X5, customers can create, test, deploy and analyze voice application services through a single, tightly-integrated environment providing unique voice application server technology with full, multi-service, multi-tenant capabilities and cluster management.

From today, VoiceObjects X5 users can benefit from the power of Loquendo’s VoxNauta platform, which includes Loquendo's comprehensive range of state of the art speech engines: Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software, with its advanced features, including Emotional Expressivity, Mixed Language Support and Audio Mixer, and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition software, 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.

The certified VoiceObjects Speech Platform Driver is the interface between Loquendo VoxNauta Version 6.0 and VoiceObjects X5.

The interoperability testing was performed using VoiceObjects X5 together with Loquendo’s VoxNauta platform hosted on LoquendoC@fé (www.loquendocafe.com) Loquendo’s website dedicated to the VoiceXML developer community.

About VoiceObjects – all business is vocal
VoiceObjects is the worldwide leader in Voice Application Management Systems (VAMS). The VoiceObjects product portfolio enables companies to easily create, test, deploy and analyze voice applications with the industry’s best-of-breed IDE on a carrier-grade, server-based platform.

The company is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and has offices in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

For more information, visit www.voiceobjects.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.