Loquendo at SpeechTEK WEST 2006

IN-DEPTH

Loquendo is very happy to announce a forthcoming Tutorial on the Loquendo TTS Director. The Loquendo TTS Director tool enables the creation and playback of TTS prompts and the achievement an extensive and seamless use of the advanced features previously described. In this issue you will find an introduction to the Tutorial. It gives some important introductory notes about Loquendo TTS, highlights some soon to be released new features, and the how and why of the Loquendo TTS Director. The Tutorial will be presented in installments in the next few issues of the Newsletter.

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STANDARDS CORNER

• Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition reaches Candidate Recommendation
  January, 11 2006
  W3C's Voice Browser Working Group has released a new version of the Semantic Intepretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 specification at Candidate Recommendation level. This is very important news for the speech application world: the speech recognition grammars are close to having a complete set of standards which covers both the syntactic and the semantic aspects. This is an important step towards the W3C Recommendation goal.
  Loquendo strongly believes that full standard grammars will promote the development of the speech application world.
  
  
• Forthcoming W3C Workshop on: "The Ubiquitous Web"
  March 9-10, 2006
  The main aim of this Workshop is to build a better understanding of the Ubiquitous Web, and to identify potential areas for standardization. For instance to explore the vision of the Web as a distributed applications platform that works across a wide range of devices, or to explain how current W3C work fits into this vision (e.g. Delivery Context Interfaces, Device Descriptions, Multimodal Architecture, etc.), or to identify and prioritize additional areas which would benefit from standardization.
  
  
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 is Working Draft
  January 13, 2006
  The scope of these Best Practices refers primarily to the extension of web browsing onto mobile devices and to improve the experience of the Web on mobile devices. In the context of wishing to work towards 'One Web', that is to make available, as far as is reasonable, the same information and services to all users irrespective of the device they are using. However, it does not mean that exactly the same information is available in exactly the same way across all devices. Some services and information are more suitable for, and targeted at, particular user contexts.
  
  
• New releases of Accessibilities Guidelines 2.0
  November 11, 2005
  The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative has released the first working draft on two important topics: the Web Content Acessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. There is also some introductory material, such as Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft Documents and Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview. The ultimate goal is to produce Web content and to make it more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and elderly users.
  
  

LOQUENDO Products

• Loquendo Releases Loquendo Speech Suite 7.0 Compliant with Latest IETF Draft of MRCP v2
  January 16, 2006
  Loquendo announced the new release of its technology server (Loquendo Speech Suite), fully compliant with the latest draft (draft 09) of the MRCPv2 standard recently released by IETF. The Media Resource Control Protocol - Version 2 (MRCPv2) is the vendor-neutral, IETF protocol, for the control of distributed ASR, TTS and Speaker Verification (SV) resources. The latest draft is more complete and better supports the integration of speech resources in VoiceXML 2.0 compliant platforms.
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• Loquendo Announces New Release of Voice Investigation System (L-VIS 3.0)
  January 12, 2006
  Loquendo announced the release of version 3.0 of its Voice Investigation System SW, the system for executing Voice Analysis in the field of security. The new suite of desktop modular tools drastically cuts down the time and effort required by agents and investigators when carrying out Lawful Telephone Interceptions. The new version makes use of highly sophisticated biometric algorithms for speaker identification and includes several user-friendly graphical tools that assist our customers in every phase of investigation.
  Contact us at security@loquendo.com.
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• Loquendo Presents Carlos the New American Spanish Voice
  January 11, 2006
  Loquendo recently announced the release of Carlos, the brand new American-Spanish voice. This new voice complements Loquendo's existing Spanish-speaking voices, enabling the company to support its partners ever more effectively in the growing South American markets, as well as in the already thriving North American markets.
  Carlos' voice is enriched with 'expressive cues': many commonly used phrases pronounced with a livier expression, while he can also be made to laugh, sigh, hiccup or cry.
  To hear Carlos for yourself click here.
  To meet the whole Loquendo TTS Spanish-speaking family, click here.
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• Multimodal Made Easy: Loquendo Unveils Embedded Speech Daemon
  December 22, 2005
  Loquendo announces the release of Embedded Speech Daemon (Loquendo ESD), available on Windows™-based pocket devices. It enables fast and easy access to both Loquendo TTS and ASR Embedded Technologies, within multimodal solutions. Loquendo ESD is a component for Windows Pocket PC™ 2003 devices, and is available to customers with Loquendo Embedded TTS and Loquendo Embedded ASR speech engines. Loquendo ESD also comes with a plug-in for Pocket Internet Explorer, enabling the browser to seamlessly support multimodal applications.
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Clients & Partners

• App-line Incorporates Loquendo's Leading Edge Speech Technology
  January 17, 2006
  Loquendo and App-line, the French software designer, announced they have integrated Loquendo TTS and Loquendo ASR engines within the Sibilo® product range: Contact Centre software and Interactive Voice Response (VoiceXML platform) based on market standards VXML and MRCP. Through this agreement, App-line has integrated Loquendo's multilingual technologies into a wide range of speech applications for call routing, corporate and personal directory assistance and telephony self-service aimed at the French-speaking market.
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EVENTS

• SpeechTEK WEST 2006,
  San Francisco, Hyatt Regency, Jan 30 - Feb 1 2006.
  Visit Loquendo at BOOTH #137.
  
  
• 3 GSM World Congress 2006,
  Barcelona, FIra de Barcelona, 13-16 February 2006. Visit Loquendo at BOOTH #G31
  
  
• ACE 2006,
  Budapest, 4-7 April 2006
  San Francisco, 8-11 May 2006.
  
  
• Voice World Europe 2006,
  London, Olympia Conference Center, 9-10 May 2006.
  
  
• SpeechTEK 2006,
  New York, Marriott Marquis, 7-10 August 2006.