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PlantCML Integrates Loquendo Text to Speech Technology into Notification Solutions

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August 05, 2010

PlantCML Integrates Loquendo Text to Speech Technology into Notification Solutions

By Ed Silverstein, TMCnet Contributor


Loquendo's text-to-speech technology is now fully embedded into The Communicator! NXT and GeoCast Web notification solutions provided by PlantCML (News - Alert).


The Communicator! NXT solution automates simple to highly complex list-based notification procedures, enabling immediate, multi-modal communication via telephone, cell, and smartphone. It quickly alerts people of contingent events, mobilizes response teams, and augments routine communications.

The GeoCast Web solution provides rapid notification to precisely targeted locations. Employing industry standard ESRI (News - Alert) mapping tools, the IP-enabled application seamlessly brings together all telephone and GIS (Geographic Information System) data, initiating communication with regional offices, remote employees, or the community at large, in a matter of seconds.

Integration with Loquendo (News - Alert) TTS technology allows The Communicator! NXT and GeoCast Web solutions to deliver emergency and non-emergency messages in a clear, natural-sounding synthetic voice, freeing system administrators from having to record, validate and attach files to notification messages.

Loquendo's technology offers PlantCML's customers flexibility, supporting 30 languages and offering a choice of 71 high quality male and female voices.

The company explains that since messages sent by The Communicator! NXT and GeoCast Web solutions frequently involve information crucial to personal safety, it is vital that audio messages are highly fluent and intelligible.

With Loquendo TTS in place, system administrators can input text messages, listen to how they are rendered, and make any adjustments required –all in the time it takes to edit a text.

"We went through an exhaustive evaluation of text-to-speech products and determined Loquendo to be the best on the market, both in terms of quality and clarity of voices and the number of languages supported," said Mike Adams, product line manager of PlantCML's Notification Solutions and Services business unit. "We are a global business, so access to voices beyond those commonly found in North America was an important consideration."

"PlantCML has developed highly effective solutions for delivering targeted messages rapidly and efficiently in contingencies," added Piergiorgio Vittori, Loquendo area manager, Americas and APAC. "They have brought together several diverse technologies to ensure incident-related information is provided to the right people as quickly as possible, and we are proud that Loquendo TTS is playing a key role in such solutions."

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. Also integrable via the Loquendo MRCP Server and VoiceXML (News - Alert) and CCXML platform, Loquendo speech technologies power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets across the globe.

Loquendo TTS and ASR are also available as Loquendo Embedded Technologies, deployed in more than 10 million devices worldwide in embedded and mobile environments.

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia (News - Alert) company headquartered in Turin, Italy, and a global network of partners.

In other company news, 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.


Ed Silverstein is a contributing editor for TMCnet's InfoTech Spotlight. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Ed Silverstein







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