GEICO, the diversified insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, has teamed with Nuance Communications to offer its own mobile, personal virtual assistant (PVA) branded as Lily.
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Nuance to Collaborate with AutoNavi for Talking Navigation Systems in China
Nuance Communications has forged a relationship with Beijing-based AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. to incorporate its automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-t0-speech (TTS) rendering software into a version of AutoNavi Map that will be made available next quarter.
Nuance Voice Ads Debut: Back to the Future of Voice-based Interactive Advertising
Nuance is launching a Conversational Ad initiative with Nuance Voice Ads.
Nuance Launches a Multi-Channel PVA, Combining Nina and VirtuOZ
Nuance has launched a new version of its virtual assistant Nina(TM) – a service that benefits from the company’s stepped up investment in research and development surrounding Natural Language Processing, with an assist from the acquisition of VirtuOZ in January.
Nuance’s Acquisition of VirtuOZ Signals Growth for Mobile Personal Virtual Assistants
Nuance has reportedly acquired one of the leaders in the Web-based virtual assistant business, VirtuOZ.
Reflections on VBC 2012-Singapore
An optimistic outlook for both technology and solutions providers pervaded the Voice Biometrics Conference 2012 in Singapore (VBC-Singapore).
“Hey Dragon” Launches New Personal Assistant for Android-based Phones
With a set of services, features and capabilities that closely resemble Vlingo, Nuance Communications has launched Dragon Personal Assistant.
Reflections on SpeechTek 2012: Co-Location Lends New Contexts to Automated Speech
This year the transformation of SpeechTEK continued as conference organizer, InformationToday, Inc. (ITI), co-located three closely-related-but-loosely-coupled events at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Panel With Dan Miller, Steve Wozniak, Nuance’s Ron Kaplan and Ford’s Sheryl Connelly
If you have 90 minutes (actually skip to minute 1:34 for the beginning) we think you’ll enjoy our discussion of “The Future of Conversing with Technology.”
Nuance Debuts Nina: Speech-enabled Virtual Assistance for Mobile Customer Care
Nuance Communications’ introduction of the virtual assistant named Nina marks a significant set of advancements for mobile customer care. Nina’s software and approach starts with a novel combination of voice biometrics, speech recognition, text-to-speech rendering and natural language understanding, all hosted in Nuance’s “cloud.”