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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.