Loquendo and Kirusa Announce a Strategic Partnership to Deliver Multimodal Solutions

March 16, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, CTIA Wireless 2005:  Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Kirusa, the leading provider of multimodal platforms enabling wireless applications delivery, today announced a strategic partnership leveraging Loquendo's multilingual speech technologies to deliver enhanced multimodal solutions to customers across the globe. The partnership between Loquendo and Kirusa enables carriers and enterprises to offer their users an even richer multimodal experience by introducing quality voice services that drive customer loyalty and new revenue generation.

The reach of Kirusa’s portfolio of solutions is now even broader with the integration of Loquendo speech technologies, which include a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art speech engines for the development of the most efficient self-service applications that cut costs while optimizing customer relations. Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition software are currently available in 16 languages, including Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, Portuguese, U.S. and U.K. English, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, and Swedish in both male and female voices.

Enabling wireless carriers, service providers, and enterprises to offer applications with integrated voice and visual interfaces, Kirusa’s multimodal solutions allow mobile users to simultaneously or alternatively use voice, text, graphics, keypad, and stylus to interface with wireless services and applications. The solution integrates seamlessly with industry standard technologies such as SMS, HTML, XHTML, VoiceXML, and HTTP, and supports all major mobile networks, including CDMA, CDMA 1x/3x, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, FLASH-OFDM®, WiFi, and others. Enabling compelling multimodal end-user applications on a wide variety of handsets from all major manufacturers – carriers and enterprises offering this dynamic service are able to monetize voice and data applications immediately. The solution leverages the new smart and 3G devices, including those based on platforms such as J2ME, Microsoft’s SmartPhone™, Symbian™, Qualcomm’s BREW™, and Microsoft’s PocketPC, while also working with devices already widely deployed in the networks.

The integrated multimodal solution from Kirusa and Loquendo is available for sale immediately. For sale enquires, contact Loquendo or Kirusa. 

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services

With over 30 years of R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 16 languages and 36 voices - with more coming soon.

From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information visit: www.loquendo.com.

About Kirusa

Kirusa is one of the leading global developers of Mobile Social Media and Value Added Services enabling mobile subscribers to reach out to their family and friends. Kirusa’s solutions include the hugely successful Kirusa Voice SMS service, the world’s most advanced Voice SMS solution, used by over 30 carriers around the world. Kirusa has pioneered a suite of social media applications that facilitate mobile subscribers to interact through voice, including the Call-n-Tweet application which helps users update their Twitter status using voice. Kirusa provides an open platform with APIs to enable third parties to offer mobile applications services to mobile subscribers. Used by mobile subscribers millions of times daily, Kirusa solutions are built on its patented and patent pending technology and its highly reliable and scalable open multimodal platform. Kirusa has been recognized as one of top 100 technology companies by Silicon India, and one of top 25 emerging technology companies by Smart Techie magazine. Headquartered in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives and technologists, Kirusa has offices in three continents. ‘Kirusa Voice SMS,’ is a trademark of Kirusa, Inc.

For more information visit: www.kirusa.com.

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