[July 22, 2009] Loquendo Partners with Digium Tweet Jul 23, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Digium and Loquendo jointly announced a technology partnership and the integration of Loquendo voice technologies with the Asterisk telephony platform. Loquendo said its VoxNauta, a standards-compliant voice platform for developing multilingual, multivoice interactive voice response (IVR) systems for speech-enabled applications, is now available for Asterisk users, integrating Loquendo ASR and TTS in 26 languages and 63 voices. "We are proud that Loquendo is now a Digium Technology Partner Program member," said Daniele Sereno, Loquendo VP for product engineering. "Thanks to this agreement, Loquendo can now provide the Asterisk developer community with the full portfolio of Loquendo languages and voices, and a fully standards-compliant voice platform, VoxNauta, which runs straight out of the box. This allows them to focus on creating applications rather than on system integration, enriching their Asterisk experience." Bill Miller, VP of product management at Digium noted, "The Asterisk community has always been strong and interest in use of the platform to create standards-based voice applications is particularly healthy right now. We're enthusiastic about Loquendo's work across numerous languages and industries and believe that their standards-orientation makes them a natural partner for Digium." Loquendo VoxNauta includes Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR and Loquendo Speaker Verification. VoxNauta offers a voice over IP (VoIP) interface based on a software-only SIP/RTP protocol implementation, allowing integration with any IP network and protecting existing hardware investments. VoxNauta can be used as a simple IVR, but also integrates Loquendo's ASR and TTS technologies. Loquendo technologies enable customers to create voice services by integrating speech recognition and/or speech synthesis software. Service developers can manage user input, whether voice or DTMF, by means of statistical language models or grammars of any complexity, as well as combining synthetic speech, pre-recorded messages, music and special effects. Loquendo further noted that its VoxNauta software platform may be deployed on both Linux Red Hat Enterprise and Microsoft OS, and is compliant with the following standards: W3C CCXML 1.0, W3C VoiceXML 2.0 and VoiceXML 2.1, W3C SSML 1.0, W3C SRGS 1.0, and W3C SISR 1.0. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]