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July 2003
 
 

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The latest updates from Loquendo, the global speech-technologies leader.

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  1. Press and News
  2. Products and Technologies
  3. Clients and Partners
  4. Events
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PRESS and NEWS

> Loquendo technologies are part of Telecom Italia's 4 Star Service

Loquendo's automatic speech recognition and synthetic speech technologies have been chosen by Telecom Italia to power the operator's new 4 Star (4*) voice portal.
Just by dialing the digits 4 and *, customers throughout Italy get direct, simplified access to a wide range of Telecom Italia services, without needing to know the number for each service. They can currently choose among the following services and navigate them just using their voice:

  • Voicemail services, vocal text messaging, information services, wake up calls, exact time;
  • Purchasing Telecom Italia services automatically, or with operator call-back;
  • Emergency services.

Thanks to Loquendo's high-quality speech technologies, the 4* service enables all users to access a whole host of services without needing to know the numbers and without pressing any buttons..


> Loquendo has realized a new entertainment voice portal or Telecom Italia: 41.41.2, is Telecom Italia's new service for sending ring tones, logos and to dedicate tunes to friends

Telecom Italia has launched the new 41.41.2 voice portal created by Loquendo on the VoxNauta voice platform.
From any wireline phone throughout Italy, users dialing 41.41.2 can access Telecom Italia's new service, from which they can download all the latest ring tones, as well as the most original logos for mobile phones. They can also dedicate and send tunes to suit any occasion to both cellphones and wireline phones throughout Italy.


> Loquendo Speech Technology serving the citizens of Rome

Loquendo has realized a speech service that provides over-the-phone access to the Municipality of Rome's Tax Office website www.tributi.comune.roma.it.
Thanks to the speech-enabled service created by Loquendo, all citizens of Rome can calculate their local property tax due to their Municipality. Thanks to the automated call center powered by Loquendo Text-To-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition technology, all users can benefit from a friendly, easy-to-use way of carrying out tricky local tax calculations.


> Voters get their local election results over the phone

In collaboration with Telecom Italia and the Municipality of Rome, Loquendo created an experimental service that enable all citizens of Rome to be kept informed with real-time information on the ballot situation during the last local elections. An automatic speech- enabled service powered by Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR enabled users to dial a phone number and interrogate the system, which provided them with up-to-the-minute data as it came in from the polling stations.
The same type of service was available in the Municipality of Pisa for the latest Municipal elections.

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PRODUCTS and TECHNOLOGIES

> Loquendo TTS: Meet Afroditi, the New Greek Female Voice

Global speech technology company Loquendo presents the latest development in the world of Loquendo TTS synthetic speech: Afroditi is the new female voice accompanying the existing voice of Artemis for the Greek language.
Loquendo's clear, natural and fluent text-to-speech software provides integrators with a lifelike voice for the dynamic data and prompts in any kind of voice application. Give your customers the best voice applications for email reading, real-time news, order tracking, access to corporate documentation.
With Loquendo's unsurpassed TTS software, voice services are created and deployed in much less time than you'd expect.
Click here
for a preview of Afroditi.

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CLIENTS and PARTNERS

> Loquendo Technology Powers JoeKnowsIt Online Training Offering

Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software has been chosen by JoeKnowsIt - the UK based technology company - to power the JoeKnowsIt offering, which is based on Digital VR, a revolutionary process for delivering online video-streamed software training and support that is both time and cost effective.
The incredibly lifelike voices of Loquendo's Elizabeth and Dave personas will be the new voices of JoeKnowsIt training modules, showing users how to overcome software problems and providing support for all the common computer programs and packages in a user-friendly manner, 24x7.
Loquendo's easy to integrate, unsurpassed quality voices are the perfect fit for JoeKnowsIt's 1100 bite-sized video modules covering all of the most popular software packages, providing access to low cost, high quality software training and support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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EVENTS coming up

> TradeShows 2003
Pervasive 2003, Denver, 23-25 July 2003, Marriot Tech Center.
SpeechTEK 2003
, New York, 29 September - 2 October 2003, Marriott Marquis.

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