Giovanni Gurrieri

Olivetti is excited by this opportunity to work with Centigram and bring multiple language text-to-speech capabilities to Olivetti's extensive customer base, said Giovanni Gurrieri, personal computers marketing vice president for Olivetti.Given our history in multimedia development, it is natural for us to see our efforts materialize, resulting in the most advanced TTS solutions for our customers to date..

The companies also signed a separate licensing agreement allowing Olivetti to include Centigram's TruVoice English, Spanish, French and German versions with its own line of products.

Centigram and Olivetti have both been involved in furthering the development of TruVoice TTS software.Under this alliance, the companies will continue to jointly develop the base technology and the base technology implementations for this product.