Nuance ships open-source tools for rapid speech recognition application development | Linux Today

Nuance ships open-source tools for rapid speech recognition application development

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 27, 1999

PRNewswire: At Nuc ’99, Nuance Shows Products and Services to
Make Speech Recognition Application Development Faster, Cheaper and
Easier

“2nd Annual User Conference Draws Over 350 Attendees”

“At its second annual user conference, Nuance Communications,
the leading provider of natural language speech recognition and
speaker verification software…, today unveiled a set of products,
services and Web sites that greatly reduce the time, cost and
effort required to build and deploy high-quality speech
applications…”

“… Nuance officially shipped its Foundation SpeechObjects, a
set of open-source, standards-based reusable components that remove
most of the barriers to rapid and cost-effective speech application
development…”

“We have reached a major milestone in the history of speech
recognition… large corporations are now firmly embracing speech
recognition technology as key strategic application.”


Complete announcement
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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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