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Do you happen to know if ETI-Eloquence is now owned by Cerence, or if Microsoft got it with the Nuance acquisition? I'm afraid I was a little too eager to sugge
by mwcampbell 5y ago
Do you happen to know if ETI-Eloquence is now owned by Cerence, or if Microsoft got it with the Nuance acquisition? I'm afraid I was a little too eager to suggest that Microsoft open-source Eloquence when the news of the Nuance acquisition first came out.
- miki123211 5y agoVocalizer is definitely Cerence, that I'm sure of. All the automotive stuff, which Vocalizer is a part of, was spun off before the acquisition. As an aside, because of Vocalizer's use in automotive, it will probably be the only high-ish quality speech engine that won't become fully cloud-based. VFO's claims about the continued use of Vocalizer in JAWS seem to confirm that. Regarding Eloquence itself, its status is not really known. I would be extremely surprised if it was owned by Microsoft, though. There's a hypothesis that nobody really knows who actually owns it, there were multiple companies that assisted in its development, including IBM. The product was so unimportant to Nuance these days that they might not even have considered it when doing the spinoff, leaving its ownership uncertain. If this hypothesis is untrue, though, I'd strongly suspect that Cerence is the owner, not Microsoft.