Loquendo, the leading innovator in speech technology, has announced that Loquendo's Text To Speech technology TTS) is now available for the latest compact versions of Windows: Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0.

The porting of Loquendo TTS to these new environments has provided a valuable opportunity to introduce, into the embedded version, the full range of improvements and enhancements already carried out on the Loquendo TTS core engine, originally derived from the multimedia/telephony sectors. Once again, Loquendo TTS demonstrates the considerable advantages of having the same core engine across its whole product portfolio, from server-based and multimedia to the most downsized versions.

In order to fully exploit the new memory management system in Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0, a new and valuable feature has been included in this embedded version of Loquendo TTS: the introduction of a client/server architecture, so keeping the TTS engine and the client application as two separate processes. This is a crucial advantage in many cases, as it makes available the full 32 Mb of memory to each application process, allowing the developer to get the maximum out of every application.

Loquendo is happy to present its speech embedded technologies at the 3GSM trade show, in Barcelona from February 13 to February 16 (Hall 2, Booth G31).

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 17 languages and 39 voices - with more coming soon.

Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinean 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.
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.