Nuance Communications
I Speak Dragon Results: The Laurels All Go To Someone Else
Nuance has announced the results of its “I Speak Dragon” contest, Speech Heads—a contest aimed at asking Dragon users to tell the company how the software has successfully impacted their lives. The awards were given in five categories: educational, personal, social, professional, and legal. The winners Mike Fejes, a public school teacher; Bob Bieber, a [...]
Just What Does Nuance’s Jott Acquisition Mean?
Speech Heads, if you caught my brother Adam B.’s article today, Nuance has acquired Jott for an undisclosed amount. The deal is apparently a month old, and was only announced after a web page from Ackerly Partners, one of Jott’s investors, noted that the deal had been made in June. From there, according to Brier [...]
Obama Who?: Kindle’s TTS Dictionary May Be More Than a Year Old
Today, The New York Times reported that Amazon’s Kindle 2 much vaunted text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, provided by Nuance Communications, came up short when trying to pronounce President Barack Obama’s name. The device uttered something closer to Baah-raah-k O-baah-maah (closer to the sounds in “black” and “Alabama,” the Times said. The paper adds that the problem [...]
Microsoft, TellMe, and Nuance: Analysts Face Off
Speech Heads, I don’t know how many of you are also readers of our sister site, DestinationCRM, but if you aren’t you might have missed this little tag-team approach my collegue Chris Musico and I had going on over there. We both covered Microsoft/TellMe’s recent launch of some speech-enabled functionality to their enterprise cloud-based offering. [...]
Today, We Review Nuance’s Voicemail-to-Text
Speech Heads, after many a voicemail message and perilously rigorous scientific testing, we’re finally ready to give you STBlog’s assessment of Nuance’s VM2T (voicemail-to-text) client. How the review breaks down A couple weeks ago, I had a briefing with Nuance Communications about setting the service up where they explained the lay of the land. They [...]
Unsafe At Any Speech?
Yesterday, the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) provided analysis of a joint study between Harvard University and Warwick University. The results, they suggest, put a damper on the unspoken implications of a 2008 Nuance study that found using speech recognition was safer than using tactile controls. The Harvard/Warwick study, which had a quick rundown in Wired [...]
Nuance Review Update Bonanza!
First of all, I know what you’re probably thinking out there in Speechlandia. Where’s this much talked, much huffed about Dragon 10 review that the Brothers B. have been promising? Well, we’ve had to keep mum about this because of an embargo, but we’re finally unfettered. Shortly after we began our review process, we got [...]
