Teleca partners with SVOX - Enabling faster adoption of speech technologies in automotive and consumer electronics

Malmö, Sweden – June 11, 2009 – Teleca, a world-leading supplier of solutions and services to the mobile industry today announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with SVOX (www.svox.com), the leading provider of embedded speech solutions.

Teleca and SVOX will help device vendors and service providers enhance their products with speech, delivering richer consumer experiences. The new Teleca offerings will embed technologies and solutions from both companies such as SVOX speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech technologies (TTS) as well as Teleca's echo cancellation and noise reduction solution (eVoice) to create the best total speech dialog solutions on the market. Teleca’s Head of Solutions, Andrew Till said, “Speech is an increasingly important component of next generation multimodal user interfaces and Teleca is pleased to offer its automotive and mobile customers a complete solution with pre-integrated speech for a wide range of devices and applications such human machine interaction (HMI) for car navigation devices. We have chosen to partner with SVOX because of their industry-leading quality, innovative products and proven track record.” Martin Reber, CEO of SVOX comments: “SVOX strives to make integration of speech solutions as easy as possible. By partnering with Teleca, a leading player in several SVOX markets, we will make it even more straightforward for OEMs and service providers to add speech to their automotive and mobile products.”