Gartner Reports That Loquendo Has Highest Worldwide Speech Market Growth Rate

TURIN, Italy - Gartner reported that the volume of Loquendo's worldwide port shipments increased by approximately 26.7 percent during the year 2004 in its latest market statistics report, "Speech Recognition Telephony Software: Worldwide, 2004 (Preliminary)."

Loquendo offers a range of speech engines for the development of self-service applications. Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition software are currently available in 16 languages, including U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish in both male and female voices.