Windows Embedded Automotive 7 Integrates Loquendo ASR & TTS

Windows Embedded Automotive 7 Integrates Loquendo ASR & TTS

Feb. 8, 2011

Loquendo ASR & TTS Available on Latest Microsoft Automotive Operating System.

Loquendo, global speech technology provider, announces the integration of Loquendo Speech Recognition and Text to Speech into the PDK of Windows Embedded Automotive 7 - the embedded platform for in-vehicle use based on Windows Embedded Compact 7.

Windows Embedded Automotive has been integrated by numerous tier one companies, including Magneti Marelli, to offer drivers the opportunity to interact with navigation applications and to control in-car features and on-board devices by voice, for complete eyes-free and hands-free operation and a safer and more efficient drive.

The platform automatically connects to your phone when you enter the vehicle, and downloads any new emails and contacts. It also allows you to play music directly from your phone through the car’s sound system, by simply saying the track or artist you wish to hear, thanks to Loquendo’s noise-robust speech recognition.

With Windows Embedded Automotive 7, incoming emails can be read out automatically as they arrive, with Loquendo’s smooth and expressive multilingual text to speech. All this lets you work through your inbox safely while on the move, without having to take your eyes off the road or hands off the wheel. When you’re done, the music fades back up automatically.

Loquendo Embedded ASR and TTS are the ideal choice for creating talking applications and services for all compact and mobile devices - including navigation applications, voice-enabled phones, ebook readers, assistive devices, etc.

Loquendo Embedded ASR for Automotive is fast, accurate speech recognition especially trained on noisy in-vehicle environments - for an even more robust on-board performance.

Loquendo Embedded TTS for Automotive is natural, fluent and highly expressive synthetic speech, and combines a series of studio quality, pre-recorded phrases with the flexibility of text-to-speech – so offering the best of both worlds.

Both are high-performing, high quality technologies with a choice of memory footprints to exactly fit your speech-enabled application, however compact the device.

Speech technology has become an essential element in the automotive space, empowering drivers with hands-free and eyes-free control over their in-vehicle environment – keeping them connected during their drive time with voice diallers and email/SMS readers, providing destination entry and turn-by-turn route directions, along with voice-control of media players, air-con, etc. – all via the simplest and most natural interface: their voice.

Loquendo Embedded Technologies support the TeleAtlas® and Navteq™ SAMPA phonetic alphabets, and are available for all major embedded operating systems.

For more information, or for help and support with your application ideas, please contact Loquendo at:
embedded@loquendo.com.

About Loquendo
Awarded Speech Industry ‘Market Leader’ for the past four consecutive years, Loquendo provides a complete range of speech technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions – in 30 languages with 72 voices, and constantly growing - helping businesses deliver a next-generation client experience while saving them millions each year.

Loquendo Embedded Technologies are innovative, easy-to-integrate solutions deployed in more than 14 million mobile and on-board navigation systems globally, as well as powering PDAs, assistive devices, virtual Web-assistants and other embedded solutions around the world.

Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies, also available on the Loquendo MRCP Server and VoiceXML, CCXML & SCXML platform.

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, UK, Spain, Germany and France, and a global network of partners. For more info, and to hear Loquendo TTS for yourself, go to www.loquendo.com.

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