Loquendo Releases MCRP Server for Windows and Linux

Loquendo this week released Loquendo MRCP Server 7.1 for Windows and Linux, with important new features.

Loquendo MRCP Server is an optimized server solution for voice-enabling interactive voice response (IVR) systems. It is specifically designed for system integrators who require high quality, multilingual ASR and TTS to speech-enable large-scale telephony applications such as contact centres, unified messaging and self-service applications.

Loquendo MRCP Server is available for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and XP Professional, and for Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 and SuSE 10 SP2. All versions of Loquendo MRCP Server support the MRCP v1 and MRCP v2 standards.

This new release includes the following new features:
• Alignment of the MRCPv2 profile with the latest IETF draft (MRCPv2, draft 17).
• Additional support for ISO encodings, in addition to UTF 8 (both for ASR and TTS).
• Availability of new vendor specific parameters (both for TTS and ASR), to fully exploit the full potential of Loquendo technologies, for instance:
- disables background noise recognition objects (ROs), when using word-spotting grammars;
- extends maximum time limit for recognized utterances beyond 30 seconds;
- enables the timbre of TTS voices to be adjusted to suit application contexts; and
- enables MRCP Server to send phonetic transcriptions 
• Extended functionalities in the Management Console, which now indicates the number of licensed ports, the number of active sessions, ASR/TTS resources in use, their peak values, etc. 
• Greatly reduced grammar compilation time on large grammars, by creating ‘Intermediate Binary Objects’, downloadable via HTTP. 
• Support for Language Modelling objects as ‘precompiled objects’ (LM ROs). 
• Support for a default lexicon, defined via the Management Console, for TTS as well as ASR.