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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
by 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 agohttps://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 agoThat'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 agoThe 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).