deCarta Takes Loquendo TTS On Board

DeCarta, a leading supplier of software and services for the location-based services (LBS) industry, is enhancing its real time, two-way connected navigation service with Loquendo’s Text-to-Speech voices.

DeCarta's CNAV service allows users to access, via their personal navigation devices, the enormous range of location-based content to provide services that are highly relevant and useful for the driver. It enables users to search the Internet for destinations and ponts of interest, use up-to-date traffic data to determine the fastest route, download destinations from a Web portal, check for weather and speed cameras, and much more.
 
With such a wealth of valuable and dynamic information available, users risk being distracted from their primary task: driving! Thanks to Loquendo TTS, drivers can now access this content easily without having to take their eyes off the road.

“deCarta’s SDK and CNAV navigation platform is a powerful tool with incredible potential,” says Paolo Coppo, vice president of marketing and business development at Loquendo. “We are proud to have contributed to enriching such a compelling product by adding our TTS voices, especially since our TTS will play a vital role in helping to prevent driver distraction.”
 
“Connected navigation provides a path to a much broader set of services and content that will be very useful for the driver,” says Marc Prioleau, vice president of marketing at deCarta. “Since that content needs to be presented in a safe and useful way to the driver, we needed a partner who can deliver high-quality speech technology, the ability to localize for different countries, and a strong roadmap to voice recognition. Loquendo provides all these capabilities and we are looking forward to working with them in this growing market.”