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June 20, 2011
Loquendo Mobile Solution Enables Speech Recognition for Mobile Apps
By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor
As popular as texting, video and mobile Web has become for mobile users; there is still great demand for voice applications. Loquendo (News - Alert) is a powerful provider in this space, offering essential speech recognition solutions and voice products to advance innovation and application within the mobile phone space.
The company’s Loquendo Mobile Solution is a speech recognition product developed for the quick creation of innovative voice applications for mobile phones. This solution integrates voice synthesis and recognition technologies offered in a compact version designed specifically for mobile phones.
The Loquendo Mobile Solution offers unique features such as the ability to read acronyms and emoticons. This solution also guarantees the quality of the synthesized voices within the speech recognition platform, as well as the effectiveness of the voice recognition engines of the server version. The company positions this technology as making the mobile phone experience more intuitive and more pleasurable.
This mobile solution offers applications for simpler use, as well as a number of advantages. For one, data connectivity is not required to make use of the technology as it is a local solution. In addition, smaller devices can be developed as voice commands, offering the preferred interface over keyboards and number pads.
Speech recognition within the Loquendo mobile platform facilitates universal accessibility and will help to improve road safety by reducing driver distractions. The mobile offering also allows for the creation of modal and interactive applications to increase the marketability for online stores as a result of the more effective user experience.
Voice applications can be developed with the Loquendo speech recognition solution that can read emails, text messages, eBooks and RSS feeds. This capability can provide services for learning foreign languages and translation, navigation services for voice entry of directions, screen readers, talking avatars, voice-overs in advertising, voice dialing, voice selection of contents, voice commands and so much more.
In other Loquendo speech recognition news, the provider recently created the Loquendo TTS in the Communilator, the industry’s first translation application designed to read and translate foreign text in over 55 languages.The Communilator provides language translation for over 3,500 language pairs and can be integrated with any of the user’s desired communication tools.
Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Jamie Epstein
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