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Foreword
Dear
Reader,
Welcome to the October "Halloween" edition of the Loquendo Newsletter. Here you'll find all you need to
know about the latest Loquendo partnerships
and products as well as news from the speech industry.
September saw several important events for Loquendo: in Europe, especially important for the DACH region,
there was Voice Days in Bonn; for our partners in the
CRM and Contact Center sector there was the 2007 Interactive Intelligence Partner Conference,
in Chandler, Arizona; the major event for the Italian market was SMAU 2007 in Milan.
SMAU 2007, the 44th international exhibition of Information & Communication Technology,
is the principal showcase for the Italian ICT market. From the Telecom Italia stand, Loquendo was
pleased to have the opportunity to demonstrate the full range of Loquendo products and solutions to
all those attending. This included the new Loquendo voice-controlled Media Center for playing and
storing music, films, photos, etc, which met with a very warm and positive response. Attendees
were also able to see live demos of many of the voice-enabled services that are powered by Loquendo and
already on the market, and these received a great deal of interest from carriers, services providers,
public utilities and VoIP players.
The next important date for Italy will be COM-PA 2007, a major event for speech technology
in the context of e-Government, taking place in Bologna, December 6-8.
Earlier in the month Loquendo was delighted to be able to announce the release of TomTom
ONE XL•S featuring the Loquendo TTS Automotive Solution. More and more
drivers worldwide are enjoying simple and
safe hands-free operation using speech technology with unparalleled expressiveness and intelligibility.
To try out these solutions for yourself, come and see us at
Navigation & Location 2007 in San Jose,
December 4-5.
Our article this issue features an interview with Paolo Coppo,
Head of Marketing & Business Development at Loquendo, on the highly successful Loquendo
TTS Automotive Solution, in which he reveals why every day millions of drivers are making
use of Loquendo speech technology.
You can also see a second interview with Paolo,
taken from Telematics Update Magazine - Issue 41
September 2007, where he reflects on the current state of the speech industry and on Loquendo's
position in the market.
On the company side, Loquendo's presence in Spain and Portugal has been reinforced by the appointment of
Marco Antonio Piña Sanchez as Iberia Relations Manager.
Then follows our Standards Corner, which looks at recent developments in
standards and brings news from the standardization bodies.
The Events diary for autumn includes,
for the Italian market, COM-PA 2007, in Bologna, November
6-8; for the wider European market there is Expo Call Center
& CRM Solutions 2007 in Madrid, November 7-8, and Expo
Call Center & CRM Solutions 2007 in Portugal, November 27-29.
Finally, ISS World 2007 in Washington D.C., December 10-12,
is the world's largest gathering of players in the Intelligence
community.
If you're attending any of these shows, do feel free to drop by our stand and let us show you how
Loquendo technology speaks for itself!
We look forward to seeing you there!
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IN-DEPTH
The article this issue features an interview with Paolo Coppo,
Loquendo VP of Marketing & Business Development, in which
he talks about the
huge popularity of the Loquendo Automotive Solution,
and Loquendo's recent successes in the speech technology market.
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Go to the
article.
Loquendo
News
- Loquendo Expands its Presence in Spain
and Portugal
October 26, 2007
Loquendo announced the appointment of Marco Antonio Piña Sánchez as
Iberia Relations Manager.
Marco Antonio has more than 10 years sales experience with companies such as Thales,
Progress Software, Vignette, Softgal and, before his appointment to Loquendo, with Tecnocom as
Partners & Marketing Director.
Following Loquendo's expansion strategy announced in July, the company is broadening its already
strong presence in Spain and Portugal in response to the rapid expansion of these markets in the
speech technology sector.
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LOQUENDO
Products
- Loquendo Launches Lisheng -
the New Chinese Voice
October 16, 2007
Loquendo, leading provider of multi-award winning speech technologies worldwide,
was proud to present Lisheng, the new Chinese voice.
Lisheng, the new female Mandarin Chinese voice, joins Linlin, Loquendo's first
Chinese voice, in taking the company and its partners into the booming Chinese
and Taiwanese markets, as well as into the many large Mandarin-speaking communities
within Singapore, Malaysia and throughout the world. Furthermore, the voice of Linlin has
undergone significant refinements at the phonetic level, and so clients can now choose
between two superior quality Mandarin voices, selecting that which best suits the company
profile, giving them greater flexibility and expressiveness.
Lisheng has been developed in response to intense demand from the Chinese market,
particularly from the automotive sector where there is a clear need for automotive products
with a high quality Mandarin-speaking voice.
To meet Lisheng, click here.
To meet the Loquendo TTS family, click here.
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- Loquendo Launches Two New Voices:
Soledad (American Spanish), and Zeynep (Turkish)
October 4, 2007
Loquendo, leading provider of multi-awarded speech technologies worldwide,
was proud to present Soledad and Zeynep.
Soledad, the new female American Spanish voice, joins Loquendo's extensive
range of voices for the Latin American markets - Mexican, Brazilian, Argentinian,
Chilean, as well as Carlos, the male American Spanish voice.
Zeynep, the new female Turkish voice, joins Kerem in taking Loquendo and its
partners into the thriving Turkish market, as well as into a whole new branch
of languages for Loquendo. The European markets have never been so accessible
to Loquendo's clients and partners.
To meet Soledad, click here.
To meet Zeynep, click here.
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Clients
& Partners
- Aizan Technologies Chooses Loquendo's
Automated Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech for Aizan's Enhanced Voice Applications Platform
October 22, 2007
Aizan Technologies (www.aizan.com), a leading provider of Enhanced Voice Applications
and Hosted IVR services, announced its selection of Loquendo's award-winning speech technologies
to enhance Aizan's innovative line of Enhanced Voice Applications (EVA)™.
Aizan's compliance with MRCP 2.0 is critical as open standards and interoperability are key to
the company's corporate success. It also underscores Aizan's emphasis on research and
development in incorporating emerging technologies and standards into its leading-edge
platform.
Loquendo's broad suite of products is used to improve caller interaction, reduce waiting times
and increase information dissemination and comprehension across multiple enhanced voice
applications offered by Aizan to an expanding client base world-wide.
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- Loquendo Automotive TTS Solution Integrated
into the New TomTom ONE XL•S
October 17, 2007
Loquendo, leading global speech-technology provider, announces the integration of Loquendo's
multi-lingual Automotive Text-to-Speech Solution into TomTom's latest GPS device -
the TomTom ONE XL•S.
After the huge success of TomTom ONE, the world's number one selling portable navigation
device, now comes TomTom ONE XL•S featuring Loquendo's multi-award winning TTS
- offering drivers across the globe talking car-navigators with unparalleled expressiveness
and intelligibility.
The Loquendo Automotive Solution, already integrated into the TomTom GO920,
TomTom GO 720, TomTom GO 520 and TomTom GO 910 portable navigation devices,
combines embedded text-to-speech software with thoughtfully designed pre-recorded prompts,
giving the user highly intelligible, natural-sounding instructions and information in the language
of their choice.
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STANDARDS
CORNER
- TPAC 2007: W3C Technical Plenary /
Advisory Committee Meetings Week
November 7, 2007
The W3C Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meeting (TPAC) will be
held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA on 7 November. W3C working groups will come
together to brainstorm some of the most challenging technical issues facing the Web and the
W3C.
During the same week of the TPAC Conference, the Voice Browser Working Group and
the Multimodal Interaction Working Group will hold one of their periodic face-to-face meetings
to discuss the most
important specifications under evolution in this period, which include VoiceXML 3.0 and
Multimodal Architecture specifications.
- Another New Draft
of IETF MRCP version 2
October 19, 2007
Another small update to the draft of the
Media Resource
Control Protocol version 2 (MRCPv2) was recently released
by the IETF SpeechSC working
group.
The new draft, number 14, contains mainly editorial changes to address
all the Working Group Last Call (WGLC) comments,
as well as some pre-IESG review comments.
Thus the group does not expect any more comments, changes, or new drafts.
This means that the group considers the standard MRCPv2 to be complete and
ready to move to a final stage.
EVENTS
- COM-PA 2007,
Bologna, Exhibition Centre, Italy,
November 6-7-8, 2007
- Expo Call Center & CRM Solutions 2007,
IFEMA, Feira de Madrid, Palacio Norte, Madrid, Spain,
November 7-8, 2007.
- Expo Call Center & CRM Solutions 2007,
Estoril Congress Center, Estoril, Portugal,
27-29 November 2007.
- Navigation & Location 2007,
Hilton Hotel, San Jose, California, USA,
December 4-5, 2007.
- ISS WORLD 2007,
Washington DC, USA,
December 10-12, 2007.
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