Turin, Italy (8/1/2008) - Turin, Italy and Montauban, France ? Loquendo, global speech technology provider, and ARCHEAN Technologies, an innovative public address system company, announce the launch of a new collaboration which will put Loquendo Embedded TTS on board French public transport.
Archean Technologies have integrated Loquendo's speech synthesis technology into their Voice over IP and travel information solution. Thanks to Loquendo technology, passengers on board French buses are now able to hear the name of the next stop and other relevant travel information in the most fluent and expressive text to speech technology on the market. Loquendo TTS is also offering vital assistance to the visually impaired, who can now travel on the French M?tro with greater ease thanks to a service that reads out information for them found on travel information displays.
"Archean Technologies' innovative and creative solutions bring huge improvements to the lives of people on the move," says Silvio Nasi, Loquendo Sales Manager for Embedded Technologies. "We are very pleased to have joined forces with them, and very proud that Loquendo TTS is helping so many people travel more efficiently and enjoyably."
"Our company particularly appreciates the quality and performance of Loquendo speech synthesis. We have integrated Loquendo TTS into our disperse Intelligent modules, which read out the text of travel information, that is displayed on buses, trains and in stations, directly to the user. We are pleased to have become a Loquendo partner and look forward to continuing to collaborate with them," says Xavier Aumont, President of ARCHEAN Technologies.
Loquendo Embedded TTS is the perfect choice for PDAs, Smartphones, navigation devices and any embedded application using a voice interface - announcements and information systems on trains, tubes and buses, flight simulators, industrial automation, embedded kiosks, devices for the differently able, to name just a few examples. Loquendo Embedded TTS is multilingual - with the same number of languages as the server version - and is available with a fully scalable footprint, to perfectly suit your device or application whatever the requirements.
Loquendo Embedded Technologies have been recognized by Frost & Sullivan as innovative market leaders with the '2008 European Telematics and Infotainment Emerging Company of the Year' award. Frost & Sullivan have acknowledged that Loquendo, "thanks to the scaling down of its speech engines into the embedded space, has positioned itself as leader in the car navigation and portable navigation device market in Europe."
About Archean Technologies
Specialist in Voice Alarm and public address solutions, ARCHEAN Technologies develops, integrates and installs products and solutions to inform passengers and operators. All equipment is supervised to guarantee operational systems in the Metro, Train stations, Nuclear and Chemical sites.
Each year ARCHEAN Technologies innovates to meet the latest demands of its customers as well market standards. For example, with a totally new technology, it has developed its own VoIP module and now manages all equipment though IP networks.
For more information about Archean, go to www.archean.fr.
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