Loquendo's Voxnauta™ VoiceXML platform was awarded VoiceXML 2.0 platform certification by the VoiceXML Forum. The VoiceXML Forum's Certification Program certifies that implementation platforms conform to the VoiceXML 2.0 test suite.

Today, Loquendo joins an elite group of companies to have its voice platform recognized as VoiceXML 2.0 compliant by the VoiceXML Forum. This is the result of rigorous conformance testing carried out at the end of last year by an independent laboratory on behalf of the VoiceXML Forum.

"The Platform Certification Program is a key component of the VoiceXML Forum's strategy to accelerate worldwide market adoption of speech-enabled applications," says Ken Rehor, Chair of the VoiceXML Forum. "VoiceXML platform certification promotes inter-operability between VoiceXML platforms, tools, service providers, and applications. As VoiceXML adoption continues to grow in enterprises and carriers, certification assists customers in choosing from a wide variety of vendors and deployment options to solve their particular business needs."

"Loquendo is one of the first market players to offer a voice platform fully compliant to W3C and IETF standards. Achieving VoiceXML 2.0 Certification further demonstrates Loquendo's leadership in speech technology," states Marco Romagnoli, Loquendo's CEO. "The Voxnauta™ VoiceXML platform conforms to the standards and supports the best-in-breed speech technologies, allowing customers to retain investments, which is an essential step forward in promoting the speech application market."

This significant achievement demonstrates, once more, Loquendo's ongoing commitment to providing high quality speech solutions based on open standards.

Loquendo's VoxNauta™ 7.0 VoiceXML platform also fully supports all other relevant speech standards, integrating Loquendo's technologies through MRCPv2, IETF standard protocol; supporting W3C VoiceXML 2.1; and implementing CCXML 1.0, the new W3C standard language for programming call control at service level.

Loquendo's conformance test report can be accessed at: http://www.voicexml.org/platform_certification/certified_platforms.html

About the VoiceXML Forum
The VoiceXML Forum is an industry organization formed to create and promote the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML). With the backing and contributions of its diverse membership, including key industry leaders, the VoiceXML Forum has, since its inception, successfully driven market acceptance of VoiceXML through a wide array of speech-enabled applications.

The core activities of the VoiceXML Forum are driven by its committees: Accessibility, Conformance, Education, Marketing, MRCP Liaison, Speaker Biometrics and Tools Committees. The Forum also publishes the VoiceXML Review, an online magazine dedicated to VoiceXML, featuring insightful articles written by industry experts. Its public Web site (www.voicexml.org) is a rich, one-stop source of information about VoiceXML and related technologies. The VoiceXML Forum is organized as a program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO).

For more information about the VoiceXML Forum, please visit www.voicexml.org.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years cutting-edge R&D experience, global speech-technologies leader Loquendo provides all the technologies required for creating the ultimate speech-interaction solutions. Loquendo's best-in-breed technologies - Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, and Loquendo Speaker Verification - and the VoxNauta Platform enable integrators to rapidly and easily create best-in-breed solutions in 17 languages.

Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinean, 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 is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy. It is the leading technological partner for integrators in the speech solutions field throughout Europe, the U.S. & Latin America. Many enterprises and carriers worldwide have recognized the Loquendo difference, and Loquendo solutions currently automate millions of calls every day.

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