Loquendo’s parent company, Telecom Italia, issued news that it will sell the speech processing specialist to Nuance for an estimated 53 million Euros (about $75.5 million).
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Telecom Italia Set to Sell Loquendo? To Nuance?
According to a Web site called “Save Loquendo”, top execs at Telecom Italia have confirmed the imminent sale of Loquendo.
SVOX Downloads Expose a Gender Gap for TTS
SVOX AG reveals interesting details about the mix of “voices” that have been downloaded from the Android marketplace to support navigation applications, ebook reading, game playing, speech-to-speech translation and other talking apps.
Google Touts Speech-to-Speech Translation in Chrome
The latest downloadable version of Google’s Chrome browser showcase how Google Translate can support spoken input and text-to-speech rendering of translated phrases.
Nuiti Taking on the Challenges of a “Natural User Interface”
An Israeli firm called Nuiti now offers a “platform” for Web site operators and Web developers to offer hands-free, “natural user interface” for their resources.
SpeechCycle Hits a “Billion Interaction” Milestone
SpeechCycle, a firm that has pioneered robust, phone-based self-service application development, has hit a billion interaction milestone.
Next Up for IBM’s Watson: Nuance and IBM Will Take On Challenges in Healthcare
IBM’s researchers are joining forces with speech technology specialist Nuance Communications to use IBM’s “Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities” in conjunction with Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) solutions (not to mention its life-like speech synthesis) to provide hospitals, physicians and payers access to critical and timely information.
Nuance Working with WGBH-TV to Help Make TV Captions More Accurate
Speech processing has always had a major role to play in making interactive media more accessible.
Microsoft OCS Gets Lync’d In. Speech Services and IVR Still Not Present
hose of us who found Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to be a bit of a mouthful will be happy to note that its name, going forward, is now Microsoft Lync.
Nuance Execs Note the Changes in Both User and Enterprise Expectations for Speech-Enabled Apps
While the “more than just speech” vibe pervaded throughout SpeechTEK 2010, it does not mean that speech solutions vendors have looked past their core competencies.