Nuance to acquire Zi – we are left speechless

I can’t believe that I missed this on the 26th February – http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/nuance-to-acquire-zi-corporation,731718.shtml
 but I am glad that I found it again here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/voice/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215600237&subSection=News
In short: Nuance is to acquire Zi.

How much?
0.69 cents per share or about 35 million USD – broken down as 17 million USD in cash and 18 million in Nuance stock.
From the press [...]

Nuance applies it’s T9 predictive text to the mobile web, not just SMS

Nuance Communications today announced that it’s new T9Nav is available to S60 owners on the Nokia Software Market. The service applies traditional text-prediction services to the entire phone. So, T9 can now be used to navigate on- and off-device applications, content and information. Consumers can bypass menus to find apps, settings, games, songs with the [...]

‘Tis the Season for Nuance Mobile’s T9

– Available in 75 Languages, T9 Text Input is Becoming a Popular Way to Spread Holiday Cheer around the World via SMS and Charitable Giving –
LONDON, UK., December 17, 2008 – The holidays are finally here and what better way to spread the holiday cheer than with a text message to your friends and family. [...]

Nuance continues Mafia style purchase tactics

Now, I mentioned in detail last year that Nuance bought out all of the competition in the voice search business (bar a few).  It purchased Be Vocal and Voice Signal and then T9 from AOL.

It has failed to make a success of T9 and what happened to XT9 – it was fab?  But the marketing [...]

Hidden gem inside One Shot Address Entry

Rating: Nuance’s technology could provide voice search for phones

Speech recognition specialist, Nuance, was recently in London to discuss the results of an In-Car distraction survey. But it was the demo of the company’s One Shot Address Entry software which took my attention.
This software can recognise in real-time a complete street address and is chiefly aimed [...]

Leading Brands Tap T9 Nav™ to Reach Consumers through Mobile

Leading Brands Tap T9 Nav™ to Reach Consumers through Mobile
Tiger Beer and The Times confirmed as advertising partners for Nuance’s mobile search and discovery solution

LONDON, July 04, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that companies will have a new advertising medium to target consumers more easily via mobile thanks to Nuance’s T9 Nav™ software,  [...]

Mobile Discovery: T9 Nav vs Qix

Discovery was predominant at the Mobile World Congress. T9 Nav made a big splash as did Qix. But what is all the fuss about?
On-device discovery is one of the more predictable evolutions in mobile services, but it is fundamental to the progress of the mobile industry as well as to the introduction of disruptive services [...]

Nuance promises T9 Nav any day now

An extremely impressive demonstration of how Nuance´s T9 Nav software (inherited from Tegic) was given to me by Nuance senior vp, Robert Weideman.

He demonstrated how the software could do discover local content on my Nokia N95 very quickly and efficiently.
The app indexed all the content on the handset it could recognise. Then, when you start [...]

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