Officials with Loquendo said that iPronunciation offers spoken translations read out by Loquendo TTS, which is also available offline once downloaded, in 17 languages and 47 voices: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Catalan, Galician, and Chinese (simplified and traditional)."iPronunciation is an iPhone app which is fun and simple to use, but which also serves as an excellent aid when learning a language or communicating with people of different nationalities, demonstrating that speech technologies are an essential element in an ever more multilingual world," said Claudio Genova, sales manager for embedded technologies of Loquendo (News - Alert), in a statement.

Yuan Tian of GanganJH said that the company chose Loquendo TTS because it is easy to integrate, is available in so many languages, and because of the speed, quality and accuracy of its speech synthesis.

Company officials said that Loquendo TTS is expressive and natural-sounding synthetic speech available for any device in all environments, and in 30 languages.

TMCnet in October reported that Loquendo launched a new Arabic voice - Laila - Loquendo's first female voice for the Arabic language.

The company’s first male Arabic-speaking voice, Tarik, was released in June.

Officials with Loquend said that Laila and Tarik both speak Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the lingua franca for approximately 208 million Arabic-speaking people and one of the United Nations’ official languages.

MSA is the formal Arabic language that is written and spoken throughout the contemporary Arab world, the language of the news media and universally taught in schools.

According to company officials, with the launch of its Arabic language TTS in June, the company also released a new version of Loquendo TTS Director – the multi-platform tool for creating prompts by means of a listen-and-edit procedure.