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Bear in mind, Nuance is often the voice technology behind other companies' speech-based products too. Nuance technology originally powered Siri, for example.

qntmfred 6y ago
Nuance itself was actually spun out of an organization called SRI (note the resemblance to the name Siri)
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  This is incorrect. Nuance was a company that originated decades ago, SRI did build Siri, using Nuance's speech technology, but Nuance itself did not spin out of SRI.
  - qntmfred 6y ago
    https://www.sri.com/hoi/natural-language-speech-recognition/ https://www.sri.com/hoi/natural-language-speech-recognition/ > SRI spun off market leader Nuance Communications to commercialize the technology https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bringing-siri-to-life https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bri...
    - microtherion 6y ago
      That's true, but technically, the company that is named "Nuance" today was originally named "ScanSoft". They bought the original Nuance and assumed its name. It's a bit like Symantec, which bought everything, including its name.
      - Pokepokalypse 6y ago
        The main IP Nuance took away from SRI was SRI's EduSpeak. Now: Nuance was spun off of SRI probably a decade or more before Siri was birthed in a Darpa program called CALO. CALO may have, in some implementations, used EduSpeak or it's lightweight cousin, Dynaspeak. But I'm pretty sure that when Siri was ALSO spun-off from SRI, and bought by Apple, that Apple did not want to pay the license fee for the EduSpeak code. So they used something else (which, AFAIR; was an Apple-confidential matter).
raobit 6y ago
Is Nuance into healthcare or speech/voice recognition? Didn't knew about the Siri thing though
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Nuance is a speech recognition company, but due to their on-premise software which has a lot of integration options and having custom distributions for medical and legal jargon, they tend to be a go-to choice for adding voice to professional highly-regulated industry platforms.
- RandallBrown 6y ago
  Yes. My wife uses Dragon for her writing her clinical notes. It's apparently pretty popular.
raobit 6y ago
Can you link some source of nuance powering siri, i think SRI was where it was built
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  SRI built Siri using Nuance for the speech components, and Nuance continued to be used for Siri under Apple: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/apple-siri-nuance/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/apple-siri-nuance/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-its-technology-is-behind-apples-siri https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-i...

qntmfred 6y ago

Nuance itself was actually spun out of an organization called SRI (note the resemblance to the name Siri)

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
This is incorrect. Nuance was a company that originated decades ago, SRI did build Siri, using Nuance's speech technology, but Nuance itself did not spin out of SRI.
- qntmfred 6y ago
  https://www.sri.com/hoi/natural-language-speech-recognition/ https://www.sri.com/hoi/natural-language-speech-recognition/ > SRI spun off market leader Nuance Communications to commercialize the technology https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bringing-siri-to-life https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bri...
  - microtherion 6y ago
    That's true, but technically, the company that is named "Nuance" today was originally named "ScanSoft". They bought the original Nuance and assumed its name. It's a bit like Symantec, which bought everything, including its name.
    - Pokepokalypse 6y ago
      The main IP Nuance took away from SRI was SRI's EduSpeak. Now: Nuance was spun off of SRI probably a decade or more before Siri was birthed in a Darpa program called CALO. CALO may have, in some implementations, used EduSpeak or it's lightweight cousin, Dynaspeak. But I'm pretty sure that when Siri was ALSO spun-off from SRI, and bought by Apple, that Apple did not want to pay the license fee for the EduSpeak code. So they used something else (which, AFAIR; was an Apple-confidential matter).

raobit 6y ago

Is Nuance into healthcare or speech/voice recognition? Didn't knew about the Siri thing though

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Nuance is a speech recognition company, but due to their on-premise software which has a lot of integration options and having custom distributions for medical and legal jargon, they tend to be a go-to choice for adding voice to professional highly-regulated industry platforms.
RandallBrown 6y ago
Yes. My wife uses Dragon for her writing her clinical notes. It's apparently pretty popular.

raobit 6y ago

Can you link some source of nuance powering siri, i think SRI was where it was built

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
SRI built Siri using Nuance for the speech components, and Nuance continued to be used for Siri under Apple: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/apple-siri-nuance/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/apple-siri-nuance/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-its-technology-is-behind-apples-siri https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-i...