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Nuance Updates Dragon Search and Dictation Apps for iPhone, iPad

Nuance Communications, Inc., the company whose voice-recognition technology is used in the Siri personal assistant, has announced that its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search iOS applications now support the Bahasa Indonesia language. The company claims this is only another small step towards expanding their offering...

31 January 2012
16:41 GMT

Apple Loses Race to Launch Siri-Enabled TV

Nuance Communications has announced and released Dragon TV, a natural language understanding platform for connected TVs. Apple has been rumored for quite a while to plan the unveiling of a full-fledged HD TV set featuring the Siri voice recognition software as its remote control. It appears that Nuance, whose techno...

9 January 2012
10:20 GMT

Siri Driving Engines Put Differences Aside, Join Forces

After battling it out in courts over patent infringement claims, Nuance and Vlingo came to terms this week by deciding to combine their forces for an undisclosed figure. Nuance once tried to convince a court that Vlingo’s vision of speech recognition was too much like their own. The jury, however, found that ...

21 December 2011
08:21 GMT

Nuance Launches Dragon Express in the Mac App Store

Nuance Communications has announced Dragon Express, a new voice recognition app for Mac OS X. The app was designed to provide an easy and fun way to put words to work without the hassle of typing.Available exclusively from Apple's Mac App Store, Dragon Express requires Lion, the latest version of Apple’s d...

10 November 2011
13:21 GMT

Nuance Launches Dragon Recorder for iPhone, iPad

Nuance Communications, the company who is licensing some of its IP to Apple, has rolled out a cool new iPhone application called Dragon Recorder.The free application allows Dragon customers to use an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch as a voice recorder to capture their own voice, and then transcribe their recordings into a...

20 October 2011
14:41 GMT

Nuance to Purchase Swype for Around $100 Million

Swype, the already highly popular developer of virtual keyboards, has reportedly agreed to be bought by Nuance, which will pay around $100 million for it. For those out of the loop, we should note that Swipe has developed and released a virtual keyboard for handsets that sport touchscreen displays, enabling user...

7 October 2011
03:46 GMT

Bon’App for iPhone Gains Voice Search from Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications, Inc., the company whose voice software is used by Apple in their Mac operating system, today announced that its Dragon Mobile SDK is powering the voice search capabilities in Bon’App, a new iPhone app.Bon’App is described as a revolutionary application that will completely change th...

25 August 2011
11:21 GMT

Nuance Launches Free iPhone App 'Dragon Remote Microphone'

Nuance Communications, the company whose speech solutions have been licensed to Apple, today launched Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 and the new Dragon Remote Mic App for iPhone and iPad.In conjunction with the launch of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5, a new release of the popular speech recognition software for PCs, N...

13 June 2011
09:04 GMT

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion 'Voices' Now Available for Download

Nuance voice packs are now downloadable through Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, while Snow Leopard is now showing a considerable delay in shipping time in some areas, Softpedia has learned. The first solid indication that Apple is preparing Lion for Gold Master and, therefore, public release, comes from developers who are tel...

23 May 2011
04:37 GMT

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Features: Nuance-Powered Speech

Apple’s rumored deal with Nuance, a company with an impressive portfolio in voice recognition technologies, is all but confirmed according to those who’ve tested out the latest OS X 10.7 Lion builds. Seeded to developers late last week, Mac OS X 10.7 Preview 3 is the latest beta of Apple’s forthc...

16 May 2011
05:27 GMT

Nuance FlexT9 App for Android Available in Amazon Appstore

Nuance, the developer of the popular FlexT9 app for Android, has recently announced that its highly-acclaimed application is now available for download from Amazon Appstore. Customers who wish to take advantage of the app's features will have to pay $4.99.The multimodal FlexT9 app turns the traditional Android k...

13 April 2011
12:31 GMT

Nuance Injects Voice Search into Merriam-Webster App for iPhone

Nuance Communications has announced that its voice technology now powers the voice search capabilities behind the new Merriam-Webster app for iPhone, the latest mobile app to take advantage Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search voice recognition technology. Nuance’s product portfolio of speech and predictive te...

23 December 2010
04:33 GMT

Nuance Releases New Healthcare Recorder App for iPhone - Free Download

Nuance Communications has announced Dragon Medical Mobile Recorder, a free iOS application available as a free download from iTunes. Present in only some international iTunes App Stores, the app is tasked with expanding Nuance’s healthcare suite of speech solutions for smartphones and building upon the recen...

13 December 2010
10:43 GMT

Nuance-Powered aisle411 iPhone App Available for Free Download

Featuring intuitive voice recognition technology powered by Nuance, aisle411 is a new iOS app that offers a unique in-store search and comprehensive mobile retail shopping solution. Nuance is an expert in voice recognition that recently made headlines following an erroneous statement from Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozni...

29 November 2010
10:11 GMT

Nuance Enhances Ask for iPhone Experience Amid Talks of Apple Acquisition

Nuance Communications has announced that its innovative voice technology is now powering the voice recognition capabilities in the new Ask for iPhone application from Ask.com. The news comes amid talks of Apple acquiring Nuance for its expertise in voice-recognition technology based on a statement made by Apple Co-Fo...

23 November 2010
10:37 GMT

Virgin Mobile’s Voicemail-to-Text Is Powered by Nuance

Nuance Communications Inc. announced today that Canadian wireless carrier Virgin Mobile was set to offer its users a Voicemail-to-Text service powered by Nuance’s voicemail-to-text platform. According to the company, the service is being delivered as a standard feature with a wide range of rate plans, but can a...

3 February 2010
17:01 GMT

Symbian Foundation Adds New Member, Nuance

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced on Monday that it had joined hands with the Symbian Foundation, a move that would offer it the possibility to work on the development of innovative mobile solutions so as to simplify and enhance the handset based on the Symbian platform. The OS, as many of you might already know,...

21 July 2009
09:44 GMT

Marware Intros Nuances for iPod Nano 4G

Nuances for iPod nano 4G are now available from Marware. The company, responsible for some of the most popular designs in iPod, iPhone and MacBook sleeves, reveals that Nuances are temporarily out of stock, but still available for pre-order. According to its makers, the Nuance is an ultra-slim, colorful Nappa leathe...

13 November 2008
05:33 GMT

Nokia Teams Up with Nuance for Advanced Input Technologies Development

Finish mobile manufacturer Nokia has teamed up with Nuance Communications, a provider of speech and predictive text solutions, in order to bring innovative mobile speech and predictive text capabilities to Nokia's mobile devices.This is quite an unusual arrangement, because Nokia, besides licensing Nuance's...

9 October 2008
04:43 GMT

T-Mobile USA Deploys Nuance Mobile Care for Select Handsets

Nuance Communications, the Massachusetts-based provider of speech and imaging solutions, announced today that T-Mobile USA chose its Mobile Care to be deployed on select mobile devices.With Nuance's solution, T-Mobile's North American users will be able to enjoy an enhanced customer experience. The Nuance M...

7 October 2008
09:25 GMT

Nuance Brings New Customer Care Mobile Software

Nuance Communications, a leading American software developer, unveiled today a new application for mobile phones, called Nuance Mobile Care. This new software product will allow users to pay their bills, check their balance and perform various other tasks directly from the screen of their handsets - only by calling t...

29 July 2008
10:49 GMT

Using Your Mobile While Driving? Do It the Safe Way

Nuance Communications hosted this week a competition revealing that voice commands decrease the risk of driver distractions which appear when using mobile phones in cars. The competition, named "The Amazing Race: Distracted Driving", was held in Boca Raton, Florida, at Conversations Mobile, an important speech event ...

26 October 2007
04:57 GMT

Legal Text SMS Messages While Driving

Talking while driving is one thing that some would classify as dangerous, while others will state it is safe if using Bluetooth headsets. Text messages, on the other hand, are an entirely different story. Nobody could say that sending them while behind the wheel could be safe under any circumstances. And, still, it c...

9 October 2007
10:37 GMT

Nuance Buys Tegic Communications for USD 256 Million

Nuance will buy Tegic Communications in order to expand the role that they play in the mobile industry. They also seek to develop the most efficient strategy in order to provide solutions for all the user's mobile needs. Companies such as Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and Motorola will also stand as partners...

25 June 2007
09:35 GMT

Rogers Wireless Selects Nuance for Speech-Based Mobile Search

During CTIA Wireless 2007, Nuance Communications has announced that Canada's operator Rogers Wireless will offer Nuance Voice Control, a speech-enabled mobile search and messaging service on select devices to its subscribers. Nuance Voice Control is a comprehensive subscription-based system driven entirely by n...

30 March 2007
05:49 GMT


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