IN-DEPTH

To enrich its product portfolio and expand its application fields, Loquendo has recently released a version of its embedded TTS for Symbian OS™. This new product brings along a set of unique features, which have never been available on a mobile phone before. These impressive features will permit developers to create a brand new set of services, such as SMS and email reading and many more applications that can benefit from vocal output.

The Symbian OS™ version of the speech synthesis technology increases the span of the Loquendo product line, which is now available for servers, desktop, multimedia, PDAs and smartphones, allowing widespread exploitation in the mass market.

This paper presents an overview of the new technology provided by Loquendo, including an analysis on possible market applications and benefits for the end users.

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OPPORTUNITIES for R&D COLLABORATIONS

On May 18th, the European Commission has opened a new Call for Proposals for submitting Research and Development projects to be funded within the specific priority of Information Society Technologies (IST). This is the fifth call within the 6th framework program for "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" launched by the EU in 2002. The call has a total indicative budget of more than 600 million Euros to be assigned to the most promising and innovative projects that will be submitted by the 21st of September (see the European IST homepage).

Loquendo is interested in exploring new, stimulating and innovative research ideas involving voice technologies in any application field, together with its partners, clients, academic institutions and other interested parties, to be presented for the upcoming call. The strategic objectives of call 5 that could involve research in voice technologies and applications are: Multimodal Interfaces, Collaborative Working Environments, eInclusion, Access to and Preservation of Cultural Heritage, as well as ICT for Networked Businesses.

Loquendo, with its long tradition in advanced research activities and strong commitment in creating innovation in the voice market, has an outstanding history of successful R&D projects that have been approved and funded by the European Commission in the last years. Currently Loquendo is involved in five FP6 projects awarded in the previous calls. To learn more about Loquendo´s ongoing and previous European research project please visit our international cooperation page.

Contact details: Luisa Cordano, Business Development (ist@loquendo.com)

LOQUENDO Products

• Loquendo Brings Lifelike Loquendo Embedded TTS To The Symbian OS™ Market
  May 18, 2005
  Loquendo TTS is now integrated with the Symbian OS™ operating system. Loquendo embedded TTS for Symbian OS™ provides totally eyes-free interaction with mobile handsets. Loquendo´s new engine stands out in comparison with other robotic-sounding products on the market and provides a unique set of features, which have never been available on mobile phones before.
  These features include the same powerful text analysis capability as the server version, a specialized SMS pre-processor, full multilingual capability, and Loquendo´s emotional synthetic voices.
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• Loquendo Develops Voice Biometrics Security Solutions Based On Speaker Verification And Identification
  May 13, 2005
  Loquendo announced the development of its breakthrough Speaker Verification and Identification technology, especially tailored for the Security World. Loquendo Free Speech Identification (LFSI) technology operates on naturally spoken telephone conversation, with no linguistic constraints.
  This powerful combination of state-of-the-art technologies is offered in an easy-to-use package to enable organizations involved in investigation activities to broaden their operational capacity.
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Clients & Partners

• Atos Origin, Together With Loquendo, Presents Its New Interactive Virtual Assistant Solution
  May 4, 2005
  Atos Origin, a leading international information technology services provider, jointly with Loquendo presented its new web-based self-service and multi-channel applications in new conversational interfaces and interactive Virtual Assistants at the Loquendo stand at Voice World Europe 2005.
  Atos Origin´s new Virtual Assistants introduce the concept of emotional and social intelligence to virtual channels, which enable clients to foster a greater degree of humanity in their business relations by providing a more flexible interaction.
  This new Virtual Assistants are the result of a combination of innovative technologies, which include Loquendo TTS synthetic speech engine, Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition, complex Web programming, virtual reality design, 3D graphic design and display, to name but a few.
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International Sales Positions

To support its expanding presence in the worldwide speech market, Loquendo is looking for highly skilled candidates to fill a number of open international sales positions.
Successful candidates holding proven sales experience will be responsible for creating new business relationships with partners and systems integrators in North & South America, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain , Sweden and the U.K.
It is preferable that the experience be specifically related to products such as Text-to-Speech (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and other speech technologies applications and solutions.
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EVENTS

• L'Atelier,
  PHONETHIK: Vers une gestion automatisée de la relation client et du dialogue
  Paris, 5 avenue Kléber, 26 May 2005, 4:00 PM.
• SpeechTEK 2005,
  New York, Marriott Marquis, 1-4 August 2005.
  Visit BOOTH #509.