Loquendo TTS Integrated By InfoSpeech Into Services For Blind Users

TURINO, ITALY - Loquendo TTS will power services provided by ONCE - Spain's National Organization for the Blind - in the organization's educational centers for blind and visually impaired users located throughout the country. Loquendo's Spanish partner, InfoSpeech, is integrating Loquendo TTS in the automated call centers it is developing for ONCE's Bibliographical & Cultural Center. Users accessing the ONCE call centers will be provided with the over-the-phone information they require by Loquendo's text-to-speech engine. In line with the ONCE's mission to guarantee an integrated education policy by catering for the needs of blind pupils in mainstream schools, InfoSpeech is also integrating Loquendo TTS in Castilian Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian and German in a reading tool to produce audio books on CD-ROM for blind students and readers throughout Spain.