Loquendo

Loquendo was an Italian multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Turin, Italy, that provided speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification and identification applications. Loquendo, which was founded in 2001 under the Telecom Italia Lab (formerly, CSELT), also had offices in United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, and the United States. Current business products to can be found in portable and in-car navigation devices, assistive devices for the disabled, smartphones, ebook readers, talking ATMs, computer games, voice-controlled domestic appliances and others. The voice synthesis and speech recognition systems is used in a new e-health application as part of Spain's Junta de Andalucía Government Health Service's virtual assistant. Loquendo's products have been the recipient of several awards including being a Speech Technologies Speech Engine Leader in 2007, 2008, and 2009 It was rated as 'Market Leader' by Speech Technologies in 2009 and 2010. On 30 September 2011, Nuance announced that it had acquired Loquendo.