TURIN, Italy, and DUBLIN, Ireland - Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Voxpilot, a leader in VoiceXML IVR platforms, today announced that Loquendo's multilingual Synthetic Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition engines are now integrated with Voxpilot's flagship product, the Voxpilot Open Media Platform v2.5.

From today, Voxpilot Open Media Platform customers benefit from the power of Loquendo speech technology, including Loquendo TTS - the high quality, natural-sounding synthetic speech engine, and Loquendo ASR - the high accuracy automatic speech recognition engine, which has been integrated using MRCPv1 protocol.

Voxpilot's Open Media Platform (OMP) platform combines advanced telephony features with Web technologies such as VoiceXML to enable speech-based self-service, conferencing, multimedia services, and video-based solutions such as VideoMail.

"The MRCP integration with Loquendo, an important market player for speech technologies and a business expert for key industries, is a natural evolution for Voxpilot's OMP platform. By integrating Loquendo's high quality speech recognition and speech synthesis, Voxpilot's OMP can offer essential functions inside scalable, and highly cost-effective solutions for the enterprise and carrier markets" says Gilles Meyer, CEO of Voxpilot.

"We are delighted that such a key player as Voxpilot, the company that brings the next generation of interactive telecommunication services to enterprises, integrators, carriers and service providers, have integrated Loquendo speech technology into their flagship product, Voxpilot Open Media Platform" says Marco Romagnoli, CEO of Loquendo. "Both our companies share a commitment to standards-based solutions, which we firmly believe are the way forward for successful voice business worldwide."

About Voxpilot
Voxpilot brings the next generation of interactive telecommunication services to enterprises, integrators, carriers and service providers. Our flagship product, Voxpilot Open Media Platform (OMP), has been installed in a variety of networks across Europe, America, Africa and Asia. Combining advanced telephony features with Internet capabilities such as SIP and Web technologies such as VoiceXML, the Open Media Platform replaces classic Interactive Voice Response and enables speech-based self-service, conferencing, multimedia services, and video-based solutions such as VideoMail. Voxpilot's customers include France Telecom, Wind, Cegetel, Monaco Telecom, BT, NMS, Swisscom, Ericsson, Cofiroute, and PostFinance (Swiss Post Telephone Bank).

Visit www.voxpilot.com for more information.

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, Loquendo Speaker Verification - and the VoxNauta Platform enable integrators to rapidly and easily create best-in-breed solutions in 16 languages. Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean 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 per day

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.