FOREWORD

Dear Reader,

Loquendo’s philosophy is to make its products available for everyone, for all platforms and in the widest number of languages, and we continue to pursue this strategy with our multilingual, multi-platform, fully standards-compliant technologies.

To this end, on the Product side, Loquendo continues to expand its portfolio of languages and voices - arguably the largest in the industry – with Loquendo ASR now available in both Danish and Finnish as well. In the telephony market, the new release of Loquendo MRCP Server 7.1 for Linux supports additional enterprise-class RedHat distributions - Enterprise 4.0 & 5.2, along with CentOS 5.2 - while in the mobile space, Loquendo Embedded ASR is now available for the Symbian OS for mobile devices.

Loquendo has also become a Software Partner with Digium - the creator, owner and innovative force behind the Asterisk® platform. The whole community of developers centred on Open Source technologies for VoIP communications now has the best of speech technologies at their disposal – ASR, TTS and SV, in the 26 supported languages – for creating voice-enabled applications.
Notably, recent market research (easternmanagement.com) indicates that more than 18% of installed PABX are based on open source software.

In Loquendo@Work you can read about the latest Loquendo-enabled solutions for enhancing your customers’ experience and boosting client retention. These solutions include Biomni, which has created an automated voice-messaging service for the UK’s National Health Service; Zanichelli, one of Italy’s publishing giants, which is using Loquendo Speech Technologies on the CD version of its English-Italian dictionaries; and Artematica, which has launched an innovative system for rapidly building speech into web pages by creating a combined website and Voice Portal.

IN THIS EDITION

Loquendo at SpeechTEK 2009

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In Speech In-Depth this edition we feature an interview with Luciano Piovano - Loquendo VP, Government Intelligence Solutions. Luciano discusses Loquendo’s Intelligence Solutions, the role of standards for the Security sector, as well as the current state of the market. This interview can also be found on TMCnet.com.
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LATEST PRODUCT NEWS Release of Loquendo MRCP Server 7.1.2 with Extended Linux Support and Wideband Audio July 24th, 2009 | Loquendo releases Loquendo MRCP Server with extended support for Linux operating systems - including RedHat Enterprise 4.0 & 5.2, CentOS 5.2... >> More Loquendo ASR Now in Danish and Finnish July 23rd, 2009 | Loquendo launches Loquendo ASR in both Danish and Finnish – so that Loquendo ASR now supports ... >> More Loquendo and Digium® Partner to Allow Creation of Multilingual Speech Applications Based on Asterisk® July 16th 2009 | Loquendo becomes Digium technology partner to enrich the Asterisk experience with Loquendo Voice Technologies and VoxNauta Voice Platforms ... >> More Release of Loquendo TTS 7.7 with Key New Features: 44 kHz Audio, Support for Remote Java APIs and 64-bit HW July 13th 2009 | Loquendo releases Loquendo TTS 7.7 – now natively available at 44.1 kHz for highest audio quality, as well as in several small-footprint versions ... >> More Loquendo Embedded ASR Now Available for Symbian OS™, in All Major Languages July 6th 2009 | Loquendo announces that the award winning Loquendo Embedded ASR is now available for developers of multimedia applications on the Symbian ... >> More Loquendo Releases New Danish Voice June 5th 2009 | Loquendo releases Magnus – the new Danish male voice ... >> More

From Speech Technology Magazine > "The Quest for the Gold Foil Stamp " By Eric Barkin > "Speech in Need of a Bailout?" By Leonard Klie > "Speech for Distance Learining " By Judith Markowitz > "Standards Make the World Smaller " By Deborah Dahl > "Speech in a Virtual World" By Robin Springer

Zanichelli Chooses Loquendo TTS for its English-Italian Dictionaries
July 27th, 2009 | Zanichelli Editore and Loquendo announce the selection of Loquendo TTS for the CD-ROM of the Zanichelli English-Italian Dictionary 2010 edition ... >> More

Biomni Chooses Loquendo for NHS Voice Messaging Applications
July 24th, 2009 | Biomni Voice Ltd and Loquendo announce the new automated voice messaging service developed by Biomni for the UK's National Health Service (NHS) ... >> More

Artematica Deliver Website Content by Voice and Voice-Navigation, thanks to Loquendo TTS and ASR
July 22nd, 2009 | Artematica and Loquendo announce the launch of The Woice, a service for building websites/voice portals that provides a new way for online visitors to ... >> More

STANDARDS CORNER Summary of Workshop on Speaker Biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 2 July 2009 The summary of the Workshop on Speaker biometrics and VoiceXML 3.0 held in Menlo Park, California, US on 5-6 March 2009 is available. The major takeaways include clarification on Resource control and distributed decision making and the Menlo Park model, an SIV (Speaker Identification Verification) architecture. Detailed minutes from the workshop are also available. Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Published 2 June 2009 The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized video. The primary goal of this version 3.0 is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications. See the diff-marked version showing changes made since the 19 December 2008 draft. State Chart XML (SCXML), Fifth Working Draft is Published 7 May 2009 The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. SCXML 1.0 is a general-purpose event-based state machine language that may be used in a number of ways, including as a high-level dialog language controlling VoiceXML 3.0's encapsulated speech modules, or as a multimodal control language in the MultiModal Interaction framework. The main differences from the previous draft are a revision of the send and invoke elements and the introduction of Event I/O processors to support them. See the diff-marked version.

From W3C > Workshop on Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web > User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft > Best Practices for Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts Draft Published

	SpeechTEK 2009 New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, USA, Booth 509 August 24-26, 2009 Remember to use the VIPLQO promotional code to get a discount on your conference pass!
	Call Centre Expo 2009 NEC, Birmingham, UK, Stand C17 September 22-23, 2009
	SIMO Network 2009 - International ICT Services and Solutions Trade Fair IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, Pavelon 9, Stand 9E02 Madrid, Spain September 22-24, 2009
	Voice Days 2009 Messezentrum, Nuremberg, Germany October 6-7, 2009
	Vocal Expo 2009 CNIT Paris La Défense - Expo & Conference, Paris, France October 8, 2009
	AstriCon 2009 - The Open Source Telephony Conference & Exhibtion Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa Glendale, Arizona, USA October 13-15, 2009

>> Towards IMS: The Potential of VoiceXML for Multimedia Applications
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