During his nearly 5 years at Nuance, he held roles in several areas, including product management, product marketing, and business development, and he launched a number of speech recognition products that positioned Nuance to become one of the world's largest mobile software providers.
Nuance Communications, makers of speech recognition products, has signed an agreement to acquire VoiceSignal, also makers of speech recognition products(Business Wire).
The current battlefield for speech recognition products is in what the industry terms "continuous-speech, speaker-dependent, dictation systems".
Dragon NaturallySpeaking won't run on it, nor will any of IBM's top-notch speech recognition products.
IBM's Orlando thinks that in five years third-party licensing agreements will account for over 80% of its revenue from speech recognition products.
One year, Ms. Shipley said, the inventor of a cell-phone speech-recognition product barked commands into his phone for several agonizing minutes, but the system never did recognize his voice.
[C4.] Options for Dormant TV Viewers At least two companies are developing speech-recognition products that will let viewers change channels with voice prompts.
Last October, Vestec secured $6.4 million in institutional funding from Sansar Private Equity Partners, which it is using to expand its product portfolio for speech-recognition products and speech-enabled services.
The company has plenty of cash on hand to get through the current lean times, he says, and eventually the market for speech-recognition products "is going to become very important".
L&H's recent surge has given it new momentum in its battle with Dragon Systems, the Newton, Mass.-based company that holds a sizable lead in overall sales of speech-recognition products.
