Apple’s New Data Center To Host Nuance Tech; Partnership Announcement At WWDC

Re:Apple’s New Data Center To Host Nuance Tech; Partnership ... by kanny96 on Monday May 09, 2011 @05:12PM (#2530227)

This probably explains why Apple had stationed Jerome Belegarda and his team of spoken language group focus on distributed speech processing for quite some time.

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Re:Apple’s New Data Center To Host Nuance Tech; Partnership ... by zmanian on Monday May 09, 2011 @05:29PM (#2530286)

This makes sense in light of the Siri acquisition. Siri relied heavily on Nuance tech. They were both SSRI alumni.

Apple seems to be "friending" SSRI for AI tech.

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Re:Apple’s New Data Center To Host Nuance Tech; Partnership ... by reddot on Monday May 09, 2011 @08:52PM (#2530808)

The Nuance of today has little to nothing in common with the post-acquisition Nuance. It's really name-only at this point. Some of their speech technology has been incorporated into the Nuance 9 engine. There are some profesional services employees and perhaps a few product engineers. Most of the speech engine developers quit and tried to join Yahoo (http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-accused-of-poaching-speech-engine...).

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