Swype Sells for $102.5 Million to Nuance
Apparently there’s a lot of money to be made from text input technologies. Come up with a popular keyboard interface and you too might walk away with a cool $102.5 million in cash. It was announced...
View ArticleGoogle’s Andy Rubin Is a Little Bitter About Siri
Whether you love or hate the iPhone, there’s no denying that Apple’s new Siri assistant is an astonishing piece of software. Speech-to-text functionality has been around for a while, but no other...
View ArticleSwype Comes to Ice Cream Sandwich With Dragon Go! Integration
Android users who are participating in the Swype beta program can now enjoy a new update from Nuance that adds a number of “hotly requested features,” including support for the latest Ice Cream...
View ArticleNew Swype Beta Brings a “Four-in-One” Keyboard Option to Android Users
One of our favorite things about Android is, if you don’t like something, you can change it. This concept holds especially true in regards to keyboards. Nuance’s Swype has rolled out its latest beta...
View ArticleNuance’s Dragon Drive! Coming to Three 2012 BMW Models
Speech recognition software maker Nuance Communications will be bringing its voice-to-text software to three 2012 BMW models. Starting with the BMW 7 series, 3 series Touring and 3 series...
View ArticleNuance’s Nina Brings Voice Control to Third-Party Apps
Keeping up with the growing trend of virtual voice assistants for mobile devices, such as Siri and S-Voice, Nuance on Monday released an SDK for Android and iOS that can add voice control to...
View ArticleNuance Unveils Voice Ads: Do You Really Want to Talk to Mobile Advertisements?
Nuance on Monday announced its new Voice Ads product, a piece of software that it hopes advertisers will use in order to better interact with mobile consumers. Here’s how it works: a brand can create...
View ArticleApple Working on Top Secret Siri Update at Boston Office
Apple may be working on the biggest update to Siri since the iOS digital assistant was introduced with the iPhone 4S. Xconomy reports that the company has covertly assembled a small group of leaders...
View ArticleiOS 7 Release Date Leaked as Sept. 10 by Siri Developer
Apple will release the final version of iOS 7 to the general public on Sept. 10—the same day the company is expected to announce the new iPhone 5S and 5C—according to an email sent by Nuance, the...
View ArticleSamsung Wants to Buy Nuance, The Power Behind Siri
Samsung is reportedly in acquisition talks with Nuance Communications Inc., a company best known for producing speech-recognition software. According to The Wall Street Journal, the two recently got...
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