Nuance Communications
| Nuance Communications, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US67020Y1001 |
| founding | March 1992 as a visioner |
| Seat | Burlington , United States |
| management | Mark Benjamin ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 13,200 |
| sales | 1,949,000,000 USD |
| Branch | Software development |
| Website | www.nuance.de |
| As of September 30, 2016 | |
The Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice processing solutions for business and residential customers worldwide. Document management, scanning and image processing software were also an important pillar of the company until 2019. Sales in the 2015 financial year were around USD 2 billion, with over 13,500 employees at 35 locations and 16 national companies. The company is headquartered in Burlington , Massachusetts , USA.
Company history
In March 1999, Visioneer by Xerox whose offshoot ScanSoft acquired after their range of hardware Ltd. Primax electronics had sold. Visioneer then changed the company name to ScanSoft, Inc. and in the following years became a leading provider of digital image processing solutions. In 2001 ScanSoft took the first step into the field of speech processing by purchasing parts from Lernout & Hauspie . Further acquisitions, including Philips SpeechProcessing (2002), SpeechWorks (2003) and Rhetorical Systems Ltd (2004) followed. At that time, the language processing business unit had become just as important as the original mainstay of image processing. The clearest sign of the changed priorities was the name change to Nuance Communications after the acquisition of Nuance in 2005. The growth through acquisitions continued and with Dictaphone (2006) the professional dictation sector opened up. At the beginning of 2019, the Nuance Document Imaging division was sold to the US company Kofax , whereby the programs PaperPort (document management), Power PDF , OmniPage (text recognition), eCopy (document capture and processing), Equitrac (print management) and SafeCom (also print management) ) switched to the Kofax portfolio.
Products
The company creates and sells language processing software. Speech processing is divided into hardware-related and PC-based, speech recognition , speech synthesis and speaker verification solutions.
The Dragon product line (formerly Dragon NaturallySpeaking) for Windows PCs for converting spoken text into written text on the computer is available in several variants, including with specialized vocabulary for medical professionals or lawyers. A variant for iOS and Android is Dragon Anywhere . Furthermore, the digital assistance system Nina is also offered for companies , as well as Text on 9 keys (T9, 2007 through the takeover of Tegic Communications Inc.) for entering text on mobile phones. Swype , which was also developed for this purpose, was given up in 2018 after it came to Nuance in 2011 through the takeover of Swype Inc.
Torsten Brand Prize
Nuance has been sponsoring the Torsten Brand Prize since 2011 for projects and technical solutions that make life easier for the blind and visually impaired.
Competing competitors
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Fast facts. Retrieved September 17, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ http://www.nuance.com/company/company-overview/leadership-team/index.htm
- ↑ a b Nuance Communications 2016 Form 10-K Report , accessed February 11, 2017
- ↑ a b Who we are. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Nuance Communications 2015 Form 10-K Report , accessed February 11, 2017
- ↑ AllThingsD: Nuance to Buy Swype for $ 100 Million, December 21, 2011