Loquendo and Dutchear Partner; Loquendo Releases Kate

TURIN, Italy and DELFT, The Netherlands - Loquendo and Dutchear partnered to implement speech driven telephony applications. Through this agreement, Dutchear will integrate Loquendo's multilingual synthetic speech, automatic speech recognition and speaker verification technologies in a range of speech technology applications for call routing, corporate and personal directory assistance and telephony self-service aimed at the Dutch speech market. 
 
Loquendo also released Kate, the new, emotional UK English persona. Loquendo's TTS engine has "expressive cues." Kate's expressive voice joins Simon to complete Loquendo's speech offering for the English language.
 
 Let Kate introduce herself, click here <http://www.loquendo.com/en/audio/kate1.wav>.
 For a demo of Kate and Simon, click here <http://www.loquendo.com/en/audio/simonkate2.wav>.