Paris and Turin, March 31th 2003

VRTVStudios, a leader in multimedia mobile communication solutions - and Loquendo, the global speech technology company, today announced a joint marketing agreement to deliver enhanced multimedia messaging and communication solutions to carriers around the world. Loquendo's high-quality multilingual text-to-speech engine, achieved through a concatenative technique which is so efficient that is guarantees Loquendo's market leadership on quality, efficiency and portability, has been integrated by VRTVStudios in its patented Text-to-Broadcast™ technology and flagship product, VRTVMobile.

VRTVMobile is a state-of-the-art person-to-person messaging system, which automatically transforms any text message into MMS animation presented by personalized 3D virtual messengers whose voices are powered by Loquendo.
Loquendo TTS text-to-speech engine carries a family of lifelike, expressive synthetic voices from around the world. The engine is renowned for its high accuracy and performance, for its integration ease and its robustness.
With VRTVMobile, users can type in any text message, e-mail or SMS, which is automatically converted into compelling animations presented to end users by virtual messengers. With Loquendo TTS, the virtual characters vocalize SMS condensed text messages in a full 3D multimedia animation sent to the recipient.

VRTVMobile is a user-friendly, enjoyable and intuitive messaging system designed to boost average revenue per user in the MMS and I-Mode worlds. It is also ideally suited to be integrated into successful SMS applications such as Chat and Date, and to develop push services delivering day-to-day content to subscribers such as News, Horoscope and Weather Forecasts.
With Loquendo TTS, VRTVMobile will speak to more people in more languages for an even greater user experience.
VRTVMobile has already launched its innovative solutions with European operators.
A full description and demos of the VRTVMobile messaging system is available at www.vrtvstudios.com or directly at www.vrtvstudios.com/vrtvmobile.

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.