12/22/2011, Swype beta users are in for a treat. The developers of the popular Android keyboard have announced a new major update for it. The update features Dragon Dictation as a voice to text option instead of the default voice to [...]
10/06/2011, Nuance dug deep into their coffers for Swype – to the tune of a cool $100 million thereabouts in fact – according to a source who knows all the wheelings and dealings that is going on. Seattle-based startup Swype is [...]
09/07/2011, There has been word that iOS 5 is reaching its final build, and the rumors are suggesting that selected carriers have been given the “near final” build of iOS 5 for testing. We’re not sure if this implies that the [...]
08/15/2011, A while back we reported that thanks to some digging through the iOS 5 beta, developers have discovered a new button in the OS that would allow speech-to-text capabilities. It is believed that this feature would be making use of [...]
08/08/2011, Are you excited about the impending release of iOS 5 beta? If that is the case, then be prepared to get all the more excited, with adrenaline coursing through your body. Why do we say so? Well, Apple might have [...]
07/14/2011, Jealous of Android users being able to use voice commands on their phones for almost everything while you are limited to just voice searching on the internet with your iPhone? Well, those days are drawing to an end. The folks [...]
03/23/2011, The great thing about Android is its ability to pretty much customize every single aspect of the device and the operating system. From simple changes like the look of the device, to more complicated procedures like overclocking the processor and [...]
03/03/2011, Ford recently announced that they will debut their SYNC system in Europe where the 2012 Ford Focus is concerned, which means its current language range will also multiply more than sixfold from three to 19. Originally launched in the US [...]
01/23/2011, Nuance has just rolled out a mobile SDK for Dragon Speech, where it will definitely go a long way in opening up speech input and text-to-speech output for iOS and Android apps, considering the fact that it includes access to [...]
11/24/2010, Steve Woz might be backtracking on his comments about Apple acquiring Nuance, but the voice recognition company has an unrelated announcement of its own, confirming that it plays a part in Amazon’s latest Price Check app, a useful app from [...]
11/16/2010, If you enjoy texting with a regular 9- or 12-key keypad on a regular phone, Nuance is looking to bring the same XT9 predictive text entry mechanism to BLOBbox, which is an Internet streaming box for your television set that [...]
08/24/2010, Nuance’s Vocalizer text-to-speech technology will spring into action in tandem with the Blio eReader Software when it rolls out next month. As for Blio, it will be the first eReader to preserve the image-rich format of books and magazines, ranging [...]
03/24/2010, If you took a quick glance at a screenshot of the Nuance T9 Trace in action, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s Swype, after all, they both look incredibly similar. Regardless of whether they’re similar or not, it’s certainly [...]