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Dragon TV & Panasonic Team Up for New Lineup of SMART VIERA HDTVs

Posted March 21, 2013 at 9:38 am, by

In January of 2012, we pulled back the curtains and gave you your first look at Dragon TV, a revolutionary speech-driven platform that makes finding and accessing content in today’s digital living room faster and easier than ever before. Today we’ve announced that Panasonic’s new lineup of SMART VIERA® HDTVs will feature voice capabilities powered by Nuance’s Dragon TV. Get the content you want, search the web, connect with friends on social media, control channels and volume – all with the power of your voice! And your TV can even talk back with Dragon TV’s ability to read content and options back to you. We know that the sheer amount of content out there can be overwhelming, and the traditional… read more

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Spotlight on: Nuance Chief Creative Officer, Gary Clayton at SXSW 2013

Posted March 7, 2013 at 3:08 pm, by

Panel: Interact with the TV: Say it, Wave it, Take it 3D #sxsw #TVyou Monday, March 11, 2013 12:30PM – 1:30PM Hilton Austin Downtown   Hello, Interweb! Like many of you, we here at Nuance HQ are thrilled to be attending one of pop culture’s most thrilling destinations –SXSW 2013. We’ve stuffed our many cords, chargers, notebooks and ironic t-shirts into our proverbial knapsacks and are ready to hit the road. This year is a particularly exciting one for us. Gary Clayton, Chief Creative Officer at Nuance Communications, will be conducting a panel entitled, “Interact with the TV: Say it, Wave it, Take it 3D”. For those of you joining us in Austin or those of you who are admiring… read more

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2013 Outlook – Better, Smarter, Faster Technology

Posted February 11, 2013 at 9:55 am, by

From indestructible phones to smart TVs to interactive fitness gear, 2013 seems to be the year that tech is truly streamlined and integrated into our everyday lives. MSN Living recently shared their own top tech trends for 2013 – and the year is looking quite bright. Here are some of their top trends: On The Connected Home – “Our hope is you may soon be able to control everything from one app — and some outlets are trying to make this reality…” On Smarter TVs – “Tremendous improvements have been made to the complicated interfaces and annoying navigation you’ll find in current sets — though there is still a long ways to go for seamless use. This year’s TV offerings… read more

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Nuance In The News & At CES 2013

Posted January 15, 2013 at 9:11 am, by

With the New Year underway, we’re moving forward with new innovations, new technologies and new partnerships for 2013 and beyond. Just last week, we headed to CES 2013 – and we made some pretty big announcements while we were there! From mobile updates to tech-loaded cars, we’ve got you covered: We unveiled Swype Living Language - In addition to integrating the power of Dragon voice recognition, Swype has also been augmented with three new features—a Living Language dictionary that crowd-sources language in real-time so users can choose from a library of the most up-to-date words globally, a Smart Editor feature that will learn and edit with you, and expanded language options (over 25!) These personalized, intelligent dictionaries that learn and adapt… read more

Predictions for 2013

Posted January 14, 2013 at 9:15 am, by

With a new year beginning, many are looking ahead for insights and predictions on what’s to come – and in the realm of consumer tech, there’s no shortage of discussion on what we’ll be getting our hands on this year. Our own Chief Technology Officer, Vlad Sejnoha, shared his predictions for 2013 with Forbes and Wireless Week – citing speech advancements that will revolutionize the user interface: “For many people, 2012 will be known as the year that it actually became “normal” to use your voice to control your phone, car, computer and even your TV.  This happened due to some remarkable enhancements in the field of voice recognition and natural language understanding (NLU)… People have taken to these new… read more

Dragon TV – Experience the Possibilities

Posted December 17, 2012 at 10:47 am, by

In January of 2012, we pulled back the curtains and gave you your first look at Dragon TV, a revolutionary speech-driven platform that makes finding and accessing content in today’s digital living room faster and easier than ever before. Dragon TV thinks like you and enables a fast and intuitive search experience be it by name, genre, title, you name it! So now you can spend more time enjoying ‘what’s on’ and less time searching for it. Leveraging Nuance voice and natural language technologies, Dragon TV enables users to discover content by speaking channel names, station names, show and movie names, and so much more. With Dragon TV, the many options for interactivity are fast and convenient, including dynamic text-to-speech… read more

Partner Spotlight: SpeechTrans Now in HP MyRoom and Windows 8

Posted November 13, 2012 at 10:55 am, by

We here at Nuance are all about helping you communicate easily and freely with our voice technology. So, we wanted to spotlight a partner of ours that helps further that message: SpeechTrans. Since 2010, SpeechTrans has been bringing the public amazing translation software and apps that can act as your own personal, portable translator. Now, they’re expanding their reach with the integration of SpeechTrans software in HP MyRoom and Windows 8, with the help of our Nuance voice technology. Now, with the SpeechTrans app on Windows 8 and HP MyRoom you can chat in real time with two or more people in a variety of languages on your computer, smartphone or land line. Powered by Nuance, SpeechTrans Speech Recognition eliminates… read more

Sharp AQUOS TV Makes Finding ‘What’s On’ Faster with XT9!

Posted August 14, 2012 at 3:20 pm, by

Whether you watch TV a lot or a little – we all have been challenged with the same slow ‘one letter at a time type to find’ experience with the remote control. It’s traditionally been a slow, cumbersome process to select one letter at a time to spell each TV search query to find what you want on the program guide. If only there was a faster way to find what you want! Well, times they are definitely changing! Today we announced the Sharp AQUOS TV will feature Nuance’s XT9 text input technology optimized for IPTVs. For those of you not familiar with XT9 – it is our awesomely innovative predictive text input technology that is so smart that it can predict… read more