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Nuance To Buy Loquendo; Amp Up Speech on a Global Basis
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).
USAirways Moving IVR and Call Steering into the Nuance On Demand Cloud
In a move that reflects overall momentum of enterprise information infrastructure into “The Cloud”, USAirways has launched a new speech-enabled IVR and call steering resources to Nuance On Demand.
Update with Deal Terms: Nuance Acquires SVOX; Next Step in Battle Among Apple, Google, Microsoft, AT&T and IBM
Nuance completed its acquisition of SVOX AG, the Switzerland-based provider of a full range of speech processing software.
Nuance Building its Mobile Developer Community With Expansion into China
Nuance announced that its developer support program is formally expanding to China by adding Mandarin Chinese to a set of languages that already supports US and UK English, European Spanish, European French, German, Italian and Japanese for dictation and search, as well as 35 languages for text-to-speech conversion.
Updated: No Difference Between Native and Captive: Apple To Leverage Both Siri and Nuance
With Microsoft plunking down $8.5 billion of its $36 billion in cash and near cash to buy Skype, a few analysts have started to take a closer look at the $25 billion in cash and short term investments on Apple’s balance sheet and apparently concluded that it is contemplating a deal with Nuance Communications.
Nuance and Empirix Offer “Proactive Testing” for Natural Language Customer Interactions
Acknowledging the importance of testing before a speech-enabled customer care system “goes live,” Nuance Communications and Empirix Inc. have expanded their global partnership.
Webcast: Nuance and Opus Research to Talk About Emerging Voice Biometric Use Cases
On March 1, Chuck Buffum, VP Authentication Solutions, Mobile & Enterprise Division at Nuance will join me for a Webcast to share perspectives on the trends that are shaping the global voice biometrics marketplace.
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.
Turkcell’s Global Bilgi Experiencing Success with “Voice Signature” Service
Global Bilgi, a subsidiary of wireless carrier Turkcell, announced that it is experiencing the “fastest growth rates in voice signature application users in one year” than any of its peers in the telecommunications industry.