Hungary-based navigation software editor Nav N Go announced yesterday it has selected Loquendo, a provider of speech technology to power its navigation software.

The Loquendo TTS Automotive Solution, in a wide choice of languages and voices, combines high quality, pre-recorded prompts – for giving directions and instructions – with clear and expressive text to speech - for reading dynamic data such as personal messages, news and TMC, etc.

Loquendo is a 100 employees company, based out of Turin, Italy, specializing in text to speech and automatic speech recognition technologies. It was created in 2001 as a spin-off of Telecom Italia Research Lab and is still fully owned by Telecom Italia Group.



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Below is a one hour video presentation in which Paolo Baggia, Loquendo’s Director of Standards, discusses “Speech Technologies and Platforms - Present and Future Evolutions.” This video was made at one of the Google’s tech Talks on March 3, 2008.