February 22th, 2005

TURIN and SAN FRANCISCO - Loquendo, the global speech technology company, today announced that it has joined the VoiceXML Forum’s Board of Directors. Loquendo will join existing Board members in providing strategic direction and leadership to the organization.

“Loquendo has a strong tradition of commitment to standardization and firmly believes in the VoiceXML Forum’s Activities. We are extremely proud to have been invited to join its Board of Directors,” said Marco Romagnoli, Managing Director of Loquendo. “We believe that open standards drive the speech industry and promoting the VoiceXML Forum’s visibility in Europe and around the world is one of our key priorities.

Loquendo will be represented on the VoiceXML’s Board of Directors by Paolo Baggia, who is also Loquendo’s representative in the W3C Voice Browser and Multimodal Integration WGs.

Loquendo offers a full range of technological components to rapidly and easily create best-of-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, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish in both male and female voices.

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 16 languages and 36 voices - with more coming soon.

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.