Julie Webb
Digium
+1 (256) 428-6203
jwebb@digium.com
Daniele Sereno
Loquendo
+39 011 291 3405
daniele.sereno@loquendo.com
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., and TORINO, Italy—July 16, 2009—Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, and Loquendo, a Telecom Italia company and leading provider of speech technologies worldwide, today announced a technology partnership and the integration of Loquendo voice technologies with the Asterisk telephony platform. Loquendo VoxNauta, a standards-compliant voice platform for developing multilingual, multivoice interactive voice response (IVR) systems for speech-enabled applications, is now available for Asterisk users, integrating Loquendo ASR and TTS in 26 languages and 63 voices.
The integration comes at a time of increased use of Asterisk outside of the U.S. Language support includes Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Russian, as well as many others. Used together, Loquendo VoxNauta and open source Asterisk can form the basis for custom solutions for both small and large-scale telephony deployments of speech technologies, including auto attendants, customer relationship management (CRM) applications, unified messaging and self-service applications.
“We are proud that Loquendo is now a Digium Technology Partner Program member,” said Daniele Sereno, Loquendo vice president for product engineering. “Thanks to this agreement, Loquendo can now provide the Asterisk developer community with the full portfolio of Loquendo languages and voices, and a fully standards-compliant voice platform, VoxNauta, which runs straight out of the box. This allows them to focus on creating applications rather than on system integration, enriching their Asterisk experience.”
Bill Miller, vice president of product management at Digium, commented: “The Asterisk community has always been strong worldwide and interest in use of the platform to create standards-based voice applications is particularly healthy right now. We’re enthusiastic about Loquendo’s work across numerous languages and industries and believe that their standards-orientation makes them a natural partner for Digium.”
About Digium
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions. More information is available at http://www.digium.com.
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