Loquendo, a provider of speech technology, in association with the Fondazione Sistema Toscana, a foundation focused on new media communications created by the Region of Tuscany and the MPS Bank, have announced the launch of a Web Radio and message service that integrates Loquendo's (News - Alert) Text-to-Speech technology, for Hospitals all over Tuscany.

'The Fondazione Sistema Toscana has created a highly worthwhile project which we are extremely pleased to be a part of,' Daniela Melfa, sales manager for Italy at Loquendo said.

'They have made an innovative use of speech and Web technologies to provide comfort and assistance to those in recovery," Melfa said.

Loquendo offers a complete range of speech technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions in 28 languages with 70 voices.

The Web radio service called "Classica Dentro," was developed for the Region of Tuscany by the Fondazione Sistema (News - Alert) Toscana and is aimed at playing classical music in hospitals throughout the Tuscan region of Italy, interspersed with key announcements through Loquendo's fluent and expressive synthetic speech, providing vital information to in-patients, staff and visitors.

According to officials with The Fondazione Sistema Toscana, they launched this invaluable service to improve the well-being of hospital patients and, at the same time, offer essential information on the day to day running of the hospital.

Federico Picardi, Innovation Manager at the Fondazione Sistema Toscana also clarified that the foundation chose Loquendo speech technology for the fluency and high quality of its speech, and for its ease of integration.