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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
| Come and see Loquendo at: |
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CCN West, Stand 214
Nuremberg, Germany
October 12-13, 2010 |
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| DICEC Dubai, stand S1-N40 UAE - October 17-21, 2010 |
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MGM Grand Hotel
Las Vegas Nevada, USA
October 19-21, 2010 |
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| FieraMilanoCity, Milan, Italy, Pav. 3, Stand H35, SMAU Business, A09 -
October 20-22, 2010 |
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| MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas NV, USA, October 19-21, 2010 |
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| Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, October 28-29, 2010 |
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CCIB Conference Centre
Barcelona, Spain
November 8-10, 2010 |
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Lingotto Fiere, Turin, Italy
November 11-12, 2010 |
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SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
MAGAZINE Jul/Aug 2010: |
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FOREWORD
Dear Reader,
In this edition, Loquendo turns its focus on the Arabic speaking markets with the release of Laila this month, our new female Arabic-speaking voice, following the launch of Arabic TTS in June with the male voice of Tarik. Both voices will be presented at GITEX 2010, October 17-21, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC), Dubai, UAE.
You can also read about how Loquendo speech technologies have entered new application fields: Loquendo ASR has been selected for Knowmark’s BAS media monitoring platform, able to automatically process both speech and media content, extracting keywords and identifying pieces of music thanks to Loquendo speech recognition and Knowmark’s acoustic fingerprint technology. Another interesting application which integrates Loquendo technologies is SpeechCycle’s RPA Express, an advanced platform for building and deploying sophisticated customer interaction management solutions leveraging Loquendo ASR and TTS. Furthermore, PlantCML has developed Communicator! NXT and GeoCast Web, highly effective solutions for delivering targeted messages rapidly and efficiently in contingencies.
Developers looking for a simple solution for adding speech to desktop and Web applications, as well as dedicated devices such as interactive kiosks, can take advantage of W3C’s SCXML (State Chart eXtensible Markup Language) which is now supported in a multimodal profile of VoxNauta.
Last but not least, in September, the Loquendo Speech Engine was awarded Speech Technology Excellence Award 2010 from Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine. According to Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC: "The Loquendo speech engine has proven its innovative capabilities and additionally has improved the bottom line for the customers who use it."
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| COMPANY NEWS |
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Loquendo Speech Engine Receives Speech Technology Excellence Award 2010 from Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine
September 6th, 2010
TMC has recognized the high quality of the Loquendo Speech Engine with a Customer Interaction Solutions 2010 Speech Technology Excellence Award ... >> More |
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| LATEST PRODUCT NEWS |
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Loquendo Releases a New Arabic TTS voice
October 11th, 2010 | Loquendo Presents Laila – the Company’s First Female Arabic Voice ... >> More |
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New SCXML Profile in VoxNauta 7.0.30 Supports Multimodal Applications
September 24th, 2010 | VoxNauta 7.0.30 Adds a New SCXML Interpreter to Facilitate Development of Multimodal Desktop and Web Applications ... >> More |
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| LOQUENDO@WORK - SPEECH TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION |
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Knowmark Integrates Loquendo ASR in Broadcasting Airplay System (BAS)
September 16th, 2010 | Loquendo ASR Analyses Radio and TV Audio Content in Knowmark’s Automatic Media Monitoring Solution ... >> More |
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PlantCML® Integrates Loquendo Text to Speech Technology into The Communicator!® NXT™ and GeoCast® Web™ Notification Solutions
August 4th, 2010 | Loquendo's text-to-speech technology is now fully embedded into The Communicator!® NXT™ and GeoCast® Web™ notification solutions provided by PlantCML® ... >> More |
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SpeechCycle and Loquendo Partnership Sets the Stage for Rapid Adoption of Rich Phone Applications
August 3rd, 2010 | End-to-End Offering Includes Everything Needed to Build and Deploy Next Generation Customer Interaction Management Solutions ... >> More |
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| STANDARDS CORNER |
• W3C Workshop: The Multilingual Web - Where Are We?
26-27 October 2010, ETSIT-UPM, Madrid, Spain
2:30 pm - CREATORS
"Multilingual Aspects in Speech and Multimodal Interfaces", Paolo Baggia (Loquendo).
• Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML 1.1) is W3C Recommendation
07 September 2010
W3C extended speech on the Web to an enormous new market by improving support for Asian languages and multi-lingual voice applications.
The Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML 1.1) Recommendation provides control over voice selection as well as speech characteristics such as pronunciation, volume, and pitch. SSML is part of W3C's Speech Interface Framework for building voice applications, which also includes the widely deployed VoiceXML.
Read more in the Loquendo press release, W3C press release and W3C Member Testimonials. Learn more about voice browsing.
• Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces Draft Updated
21 September 2010
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture), which defines a general and flexible framework providing interoperability among modality-specific components from different vendors - for example, speech recognition from one vendor and handwriting recognition from another.
The main changes from the previous draft are the inclusion of state charts for modality components, the addition of a 'confidential' field to life-cycle events and the removal of the 'media' field from life-cycle events. A diff-marked version of this document is available.
Learn more about the W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity.
• Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 Published
29 July 2010
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Working Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions.
The present draft specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and basis in science.
The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three different areas: manual annotation of data; automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and generation of emotion-related system behavior.
Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.
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