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Speech Synthesis on Android Market for Android Phone Users

Now Android phone users can download Loquendo TTS directly onto their handsets, and make any talking app on their phones speak with Loquendo TTS!

Loquendo TTS is currently available on the Android Market in American English with the voice of Susan and in Italian with the voice of Paola, for Android version 2.2 (Froyo) or later. 

You can choose your favourite reading style from Navigation or Messaging:

• The "Navigation" style enables Loquendo TTS to correctly expand address abbreviations typically found in Google Maps/Google Navigation or other navigation apps.

• The "Messaging" style includes an SMS abbreviation decoder which correctly reads the more common emoticons and acronyms used in text messages and emails.

Here are just a few examples:

	:-)	Hear the voice of Susan
	FOTFLOL
	:'(
	BBIAB
	:-b
	zzzz

Simply download Loquendo Speech Synthesis from market.android.com/details?id=com.loquendo.tts.susan.

Once you've downloaded your Loquendo voice, set as the default Text to Speech Engine by going to: Settings/Voice Input & Output/Text-to-Speech Settings.

When you're done, you'll have Loquendo's expressive and fluent synthetic speech to power any compatible talking application on your Android phone, such as SMS reading apps, email readers, screen readers, navigation apps, etc.

Loquendo TTS is also available for application developers, in all supported languages, for all open smartphone platforms: Android, iPhone, Linux, Symbian, Windows Mobile.