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World-famous concept car creators, Bertone have selected Loquendo speech technology to power their very latest innovative concept sports car, on show at this year's Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland.
Bertone's Birusa concept car is equipped with Loquendo's VoxDrive system, a prototype embedded system that enables drivers to control certain functions on the car using their voice. VoxDrive incorporates Loquendo's high-performance, multilingual Loquendo TTS synthetic speech and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition technologies. The prototype also features Loquendo Speaker Verification technology to ensure that commands are accepted exclusively from authorized users/drivers. Loquendo has met the specific requirements of the car environment, with its complex acoustic background, including extremely strict accuracy and execution speed constraints. Voice-controlled technologies do not only make driving easier - they also enable drivers to communicate with the outside world. If they are connected to a mobile communications system, information and info-mobility services can be requested rapidly and easily. Information is provided vocally to make driving simpler, safer and more entertaining.

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Loquendo technology is one of the attractions featured at the exhibition on the history of the Italian language, on show until the 30th of September 2003 at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The exhibition which bears the title of a quote from Dante's Inferno ("Dove il sì suona"), takes visitors on a fascinating journey into the world of the Italian people and their language - and its evolution from its origins to the present day.
Loquendo technology was chosen by the exhibition's curators to be the "voice" and "ears" of the Automatic Voice Processing section of the show. Loquendo TTS synthetic speech engine tells visitors the story of the evolution of speech technologies and surprises them with the lifelike quality of its many personas through a variety of fun exhibits.
Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR speaker-independent speech recognition also power the exhibition's virtual contact centre, which can be reached throughout the country by dialling a toll-free number.

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Loquendo technology has been chosen to power the automatic contact center of the recently inaugurated Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto in northern Italy. With Loquendo's application, customers are interacting with the user-friendly virtual contact center in Italian and English on a 24x7 basis, to obtain all the necessary information on the exhibitions and special events scheduled, the museum's opening hours - and even to book tickets.
The service, which incorporates Loquendo TTS synthetic speech and Loquendo ASR speaker-independent automatic speech recognition, can be accessed from any kind of phone - just using one's voice.

Loquendo is pleased to announce that it has reached a new continent: Asia! Linlin is Loquendo TTS' new female persona for the Mandarin Chinese language.
This addition to the family of Loquendo TTS is a new landmark in Loquendo's commitment to providing customers with expanded reach in today's global marketplace.
Click here for a preview of Linlin.

Loquendo presents Stefan, the new German voice to accompany Ulrike, Loquendo's female German persona.
Click here to try Stefan, as well as Loquendo's 23 other voices in a rich array of languages.

Loquendo has implemented some exciting new developments for the Loquendo C@fé community: applications can now be developed and uploaded in VoiceXML 2.0!
The Tools section has been enriched with the addition of a new VoiceXML application-debugging tool, while the existing syntactic and semantic grammar-testing tool has a new, improved user interface. Among the new functionalities available: step-by-step correction, service navigation tree display, application variables display and editing, events simulation and service navigation error signalling.
The Documentation section has also been enriched with new examples and case studies, comparative analysis documentation on VoiceXML 1.0 and VoiceXML 2.0, as well as Tag descriptions.
If you're not a member of the Loquendo C@fé community yet, register today on www.loquendocafe.com!

Loquendo Speech Suite is the ideal solution for Systems Integrators, offering them all that is necessary for developing any kind of flexible speech-enabled service. LSS enables you to choose what you need from Loquendo's technological components range - which in-cludes Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR and VoiceXML interpreter - and exploit it using a flexible integration infrastructure (from TTS/ASR-only configurations to a Full-Dialogue set-up).
It is the ideal solution for System Integrators wanting high-quality technologies to create outstanding voice services, or to boost the performance of existing IVR services, using high-quality multilingual speech technologies.

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Loquendo and V-Enable, the leader in global multimodal solutions have signed a joint marketing agreement leveraging Loquendo's multilingual speech technologies to deliver enhanced multimodal solutions to carriers world wide. The agreement involves the integration of Loquendo TTS synthetic speech engine and Loquendo ASR speaker-independent automatic speech recognition in an increasingly broad array of languages - as well as Loquendo's Voice XML 2.0 interpreter into V-Enable's veANYWAY(™) solution.
The JMA enables carriers to offer their customers an even richer multimodal experience by introducing quality voice services that boost customer loyalty and generate new revenue.

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Loquendo and Anthropics, the company that provides visual messaging solutions that allow people to communicate over any network and on any device have signed an agreement for the integration of Loquendo Speech Technology in Anthropics Technology's multi-lingual FaceWave text to speech mobile messaging service. With the integration of Loquendo TTS text to speech engine and Anthropics' FaceWave, mobile phone users and content developers can quickly and easily create talking heads, from video or a still photo combined with text written in the wide array of Loquendo TTS languages, breathing new life into everyday mobile messaging.

Loquendo will also supply Anthropics with Loquendo ASR speaker-independent automatic speech recognition for use in its Anthropics FaceDirector, an easy to use animation tool for content creators.

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Loquendo and VRTVStudios (www.vrtvstudios.com), a leader in multimedia mobile communication solutions have signed a joint marketing agreement to deliver enhanced multimedia messaging and communication solutions to carriers around the world. Loquendo TTS 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.
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.

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