May 26th, 2008

Turin, Italy and Coruña, Spain – Loquendo, the global speech technology company, and Tecnocom, a leading Spanish systems integrator, today announced an important new deployment in the Spanish banking sector, powered by Loquendo speech technologies.

Tecnocom's customer, the leading Spanish bank Caixa Galicia, has introduced Loquendo’s Galician text to speech and automatic speech recognition to their Phone Banking services. This new implementation brings the Galician speech functionality to the bank's broad customer base, which is now enjoying a more customized service in the local official language.

Customers can use their mother tongue to carry out a range of self-service transactions 24x7, including credit card balance enquiries and transactions, mobile phone credit top-ups, payment orders and other transactions.

Caixa Galicia's banking service was launched in 1998. The service now caters for over 100.000 users each month, with an average 400.000 transactions and queries representing over 25% of Caixa Galicia’s overall operations. At least 15% of calls are currently in Galician.

Until today, this kind of technology was only available to support Spain’s other official languages, Castilian, Catalan and Valencian. In order to bridge the gap, Caixa Galicia initiated a project to incorporate the Galician language in 2007. It involved collaboration between Tecnocom as systems integrator, Loquendo as speech technologies provider, the University of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo, the Institute of Galician Language and the R&D department of Galicia’s local administration.
Within the scope of this partnership, Loquendo rolled out the new Loquendo TTS voice, Carmela, along with Loquendo ASR for the Galician language. The initiative will enable both enterprises and public sector bodies to introduce Galician to Web portals, phone services, GPS devices, etc.

Through this project, Caixa Galicia completes a comprehensive range of brands using the Galician language, namely their Customer, Companies and Payment Gateway Services.

About Tecnocom
Tecnocom, is a leading Spanish company in the field of ICT. Tecnocom was listed for the first time in 1987, and was one of the founder companies and members of the new stock market index.
Today Tecnocom is one of the Top-5 Spanish ICT companies. Tecnocom offers its clients a full range of services and solutions in IT Consulting, Outsourcing, Applications Integration, Network Maintenance and Management, System Integration, Network Integration, IP Convergence, and Security and Telecommunications. Its broad experience in these fields gives Tecnocom a privileged position for offering its customers advanced solutions and services that cover the full range of ICT.
Tecnocom has a network of offices throughout Spain, in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Murcia, La Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo and Gijón, and international presence in Portugal, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile.
Tecnocom shares are traded on the Spanish Financial Market (Ticker: CIB). For further information about Tecnocom, visit www.tecnocom.es.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years experience in speech technology, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech market. Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Embedded Technologies, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification are high-quality, high-performance technologies in 23 languages with 56 voices, that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions whatever the application.

Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line from desktop PCs and telephony servers to navigation and handheld devices, guaranteeing the same portfolio of languages and the same core engine in these environments.

Many enterprises and carriers worldwide have recognized the Loquendo difference and our advanced technologies power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets across the globe.

Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the U.S., Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners.

For more information about Loquendo, and to hear demonstrations of all Loquendo voices, visit www.loquendo.com.