Loquendo Technology Available for Asterisk Development

Loquendo and I6NET, a provider of interactive voice and video response technologies and IP/3G telephony solutions for Asterisk, today announced a new update for its integration of Loquendo text to speech into VXI* VoiceXML browser for Asterisk platforms.

With the I6NET VXI* for Asterisk platform, customers can connect Loquendo’s TTS voices to send and receive voice and video messages, access podcasts, newspapers, etc.

VXI* use a high-optimized integration with Asterisk that provides advanced voice and video services, including protocol conversion, SSML, media conversion and streaming, application logic, and third-party integration. It supports industry standards for and is compatible with all devices supported by Asterisk.

"Loquendo was the first text to speech technology chosen by I6NET years ago and today this engine continues to keep customer satisfaction high, guaranteeing optimal performance with our solutions. Loquendo's highly expressive and natural sounding text to speech continues to help us offer high-quality synthetic speech in our IVR / IVVR systems" says Iván Sixto, CEO and business development manager at I6NET.

"Our partner I6NET has developed a complete solution that allows Loquendo TTS - and in the middle future Loquendo ASR - available in the Asterisk domain, guaranteeing the highest performance and best performance quality and results. I6NET integration on Asterisk expands the use of Loquendo in the growing Open Source telephony technologies market" says Massimiliano Ferrero, EMEA area manager at Loquendo.