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July 26, 2010
Loquendo TTS Now Supports Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement
By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor
Loquendo, a Telecom Italia company and a global speech technology provider, has introduced a new version of Loquendo (News - Alert) TTS in both European and Brazilian Portuguese with support for the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement - an international treaty to create a standardized spelling for the Portuguese language.
Officials with Loquendo said that Loquendo TTS offers 2 voices in European Portuguese Amália and Eusebio and 3 voices in Brazilian Portuguese Fernanda, Felipe and Gabriela, giving Portuguese-speaking countries a wide choice of high quality, expressive voices for speech enabling applications and services in any environment, whether server-based, desktop or embedded.
Company officials said that the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement aims to establish a unified Portuguese spelling for all countries with Portuguese as their official language, putting an end to the existence of two official orthographic norms.
The agreement has modified the way certain words are written, the key changes concerning silent consonants, hyphens and diacritics.According to company officials, the new version of Loquendo TTS in Portuguese has undergone revision and adaptation of text-analysis to take account of the changes made, the result being that all Loquendo synthetic voices in Portuguese and Brazilian pronounce these modified spellings correctly.
Because both European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese spellings are widespread in all Portuguese speaking countries, Loquendo Text to Speech interprets these spellings correctly, both for Portuguese and Brazilian, yielding the correct pronunciation regardless of which version of Portuguese is being spoken.
Loquendo provides a complete range of speech technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions – in 30 languages with 71 voices, and constantly growing.Company officials pointed out that Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification empower people to interact with technology in the most natural way possible – using their voice – creating a next-generation client experience while saving businesses millions each year.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi
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