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TomTom Adds Four New Languages to Voice Maps

[July 17, 2014]

TomTom Adds Four New Languages to Voice Maps

SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)--

TomTom (News - Alert) (TOM2) has today announced the addition of four new languages to its Voice Maps product: Bulgarian, Colombian Spanish, Hebrew and Northern African Arabic.

TomTom Voice Maps enable its customers to develop a range of navigation and location based services featuring high quality turn-by-turn driving directions for PNDs, mobile applications, and in-dash systems to make driving safer.

The quality of Voice Maps speech guidance is significantly better than standard computer generated directions. When combined with text-to-speech technology and speech recognition, TomTom Voice Maps delivers a superior spoken navigation experience.

"The addition of Bulgarian, Colombian Spanish, Hebrew, and North African Arabic to our TomTom Voice Maps coverage means our customers can now create superior navigation solutions enabling more drivers to benefit from easy to understand voice navigation in their native language," said Charles Cautley, Managing Director of TomTom Maps.

For more information, visit www.tomtom.com.

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Notes to Editors:

TomTom Voice Maps supports five different phonetic alphabets (LH+ Broad, IPA, StarRec Sampa, X-Sampa and Sampa UCL), ensuring compatibility with all the major speech technology suppliers and facilitates customers' use of the product. TomTom's team of native linguists produces and validates all phonetic transcriptions, ensuring we deliver the highest quality product on the market today.

TomTom Voice Maps are available in the following languages:

Arabic

Chilean Spanish

Hebrew

Polish

Thai

Argentinian Spanish

Colombian Spanish

Hungarian

Portuguese

Turkish

Australian English

Czech

Icelandic

Romanian

UK English

Bahasa Indonesia

Danish

Indian English

Russian

US English

Basque

Dutch

Italian

Slovak

Venezuelan Spanish

Brazilian Portuguese

Egyptian Arabic

Jordanian Arabic

South African Dutch

Vietnamese

Bulgarian

Finnish

Lebanese Arabic

South African English

Canadian French

French

Mexican Spanish

Swedish

Castilian Spanish

German

Northern African Arabic

Swedish Finland

Catalan

Greek

Norwegian

Taiwanese

About TomTom:

TomTom (TOM2) empowers movement. Every day millions of people around the world depend on TomTom to make smarter decisions. We design and develop innovative products that make it easy for people to keep moving towards their goals. Best known for being a global leader in navigation and mapping products, TomTom also creates GPS Sport Watches, as well as state-of-the-art fleet management solutions and industry leading location based products.

Our business consists of four customer facing business units: Consumer, Automotive, Licensing and Telematics.

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have 3,600 employees worldwide and sell our products in over 35 countries. For further information, please visit www.tomtom.com.

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