March 16, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, CTIA Wireless 2005 - Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Kirusa, the leading provider of multimodal platforms enabling wireless applications delivery, today announced a strategic partnership leveraging Loquendo's multilingual speech technologies to deliver enhanced multimodal solutions to customers across the globe. The partnership between Loquendo and Kirusa enables carriers and enterprises to offer their users an even richer multimodal experience by introducing quality voice services that drive customer loyalty and new revenue generation.

The reach of Kirusa’s portfolio of solutions is now even broader with the integration of Loquendo speech technologies, which include a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art speech engines for the development of the most efficient self-service applications that cut costs while optimizing customer relations. Loquendo TTS text-to-speech software and Loquendo ASR automatic speech recognition software are currently available in 16 languages, including Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, Portuguese, U.S. and U.K. English, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, and Swedish in both male and female voices.

Enabling wireless carriers, service providers, and enterprises to offer applications with integrated voice and visual interfaces, Kirusa’s multimodal solutions allow mobile users to simultaneously or alternatively use voice, text, graphics, keypad, and stylus to interface with wireless services and applications. The solution integrates seamlessly with industry standard technologies such as SMS, HTML, XHTML, VoiceXML, and HTTP, and supports all major mobile networks, including CDMA, CDMA 1x/3x, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, FLASH-OFDM®, WiFi, and others. Enabling compelling multimodal end-user applications on a wide variety of handsets from all major manufacturers – carriers and enterprises offering this dynamic service are able to monetize voice and data applications immediately. The solution leverages the new smart and 3G devices, including those based on platforms such as J2ME, Microsoft’s SmartPhone™, Symbian™, Qualcomm’s BREW™, and Microsoft’s PocketPC, while also working with devices already widely deployed in the networks.

The integrated multimodal solution from Kirusa and Loquendo is available for sale immediately. For sale enquires, contact Loquendo or Kirusa.

About Kirusa
Kirusa, Inc. is a multimodal solutions company that has developed industry leading multimodal technology (with several patents pending) for the delivery of applications using multimodal interfaces. This next generation of wireless technology allows users to customize the presentation of information on wireless devices by either alternating, or simultaneously receiving information through visual and voice interfaces. Kirusa develops the unique Kirusa Voice SMS multimodal application, and supports third party developers of multimodal applications. Kirusa's customers include the worlds' leading telecom carriers and enterprises. Kirusa is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey and was founded by telecom and Internet industry veterans from AT&T, Lucent and Vodafone Airtouch. For more information about Kirusa please call its headquarters at +1 (732) 623-2118 or visit www.kirusa.com.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years of R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 16 languages and 36 voices - with more coming soon.
From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.
For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.

Media Contact:
Inderpal Singh Mumick, Kirusa, Inc, +1 732 623-2118 ext. 217, mumick@kirusa.com
Gaea Vilage, Loquendo, +39 011 2913503, gaea.vilage@loquendo.com

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