Nuance buys Tegic, and looks beyond the search input possibilities to mobile content.
The $265 million that Nuance Communications is paying for Tegic is a sign that predictive texting (like Tegic’s T9 protocol) can complement, rather than compete with, automated speech-based dictation. When the leading automated speech processing technology provider makes a point of acquiring a company who’s core product had long been trying to make dictation systems unnecessary, there’s obviously more to it than meets the eye. >>
Two apps on his radar: navigation and dictation. “Nuance Voice Control supports a broad set of applications including the ability to do short email dictation, but combining that with some of our open-ended broad dictation technology will allow people to not only do short email dictation, but …complete very long, open-ended dictation on their mobile devices for everything from email communication to mobile blogging. We think – because consumers are so focused on content creation these days – it’s a great opportunity.†>>
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