2. About Nuance

    Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company that provides speech and imaging solutions and is mainly known for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that power some of the world's largest automated telephone applications, including Bank of America, Verizon, and others. Their current worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States.

    In October 2005, Nuance "merged" with ScanSoft, a company that originally focused primarily on desktop productivity software, including desktop dictation and imaging software, but had grown through acquisition to become an enterprise speech solutions company, and a direct competitor of Nuance. The officially-termed 'merger' was a defacto acquisition of Nuance by ScanSoft, though the combined company changed its name to Nuance following the transaction. Before 1999, ScanSoft was known as Visioneer, where it was a spin-off of Xerox.

    Desktop software products that Nuance inherited from ScanSoft's portfolio included desktop voice-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking (formerly Dragon Dictate), optical character recognition software OmniPage, which was acquired from Caere, Inc., document management software PaperPort (the original product of Visioneer), and various other imaging technologies. Starting in 2001, ScanSoft entered the speech and telephony markets with a series of acquisitions of companies in the speech recognition and synthesis space, buying companies like SpeechWorks that, before the Nuance-ScanSoft merger, competed in Nuance's core market of enterprise business solutions. Current business products leverage technology developed out of both Nuance's pre-merger offerings and ScanSoft's post-2001 acquisitions, focusing on Server & Embedded Speech Recognition, Telephone call steering systems, automated telephone directory services, Medical Transcription software & systems, and other voice related technologies.

    The company was in the news in 2005 after 13 R&D; engineers from the Menlo Park and Montreal offices defected to Yahoo!, which was followed by litigation by Nuance.

  4. Quotes about Nuance

    1. “ The combined network of office and production partners is an important resource for Xerox customers. Nuance is now part of a comprehensive document scanning and printing solution that Xerox is making available to its customers. ”
      Robert Weideman in Xerox Honors Business Partners of the Year; Expands Partner Program
    2. “ We are very pleased to be extending our existing agreement with Nuance. Our partnership has proven to be a winning combination in the past, and it will grow stronger as new solutions, focused on helping people get more out of their IT, are launched over the coming months. ”
      Emma Isichei in Ricoh signs European deal with Nuance
    3. “ These agreements further strengthen Nuance's relationship with Ricoh and will make it easier for more organisations to drive real value and productivity out of their MFPs, business applications and workflows. Ricoh customers already recognise the value the MFP can deliver when improving operational efficiency and streamlining document workflow. The enhancement of the portfolio will reinforce this offering. ”
      Robert Weideman in Ricoh signs European deal with Nuance

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    2. Nuance Names Michael Rich to Lead Document Imaging Division

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    3. Cranel Imaging Adds Nuance Equitrac Office and Express Office Suites to its Portfolio

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    5. Nuance is On track to transform enterprise printing

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    6. Nuance Introduces eCopy Legal Solution Pack, Streamlining Paper-to-Digital Workflows in Law Firms

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    7. Nuance is the Scanning Software Leader

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    8. Canon Singapore and Nuance Debut Cloud-Enabled Scan Solution in Singapore, under the Canon Cloud Advantage Developers Program

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        BURLINGTON, Mass. and Singapore, November 9, 2011 - Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, and Canon Singapore Pte Ltd. (CSPL), tod......of speech and imaging solutions, and Canon Singapore Pte Ltd. (CSPL), today announced the launch of Nuance eCopy Scan-to-Cloud as a standard feature in the new line of intelligent Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE ... (Read Full Article)

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    9. Nuance Document Imaging Named Largest Global Scanning and Capture Software ...

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      ... requirements, expanded R&D investment, growth in its partner ecosystem and relevant acquisitions.” Nuance’s document imaging portfolio includes Nuance eCopy ShareScan® scanning and workflow solutions, and Nuance OmniPage, PaperPort, PDF Converter Professional and eCopy PDF Pro Office desktop applications. The portfolio......reate, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com. Trademark ... (Read Full Article)

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    10. Managed Document Services: Nuance Says SMBs Are Ready

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    11. Nuance's Acquisition of Equitrac

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      ...at might come up. But now the deal has closed and we’ll soon see the implications. Equitrac expands Nuance’s document imaging portfolio, adding Equitrac print management products to Nuance eCopy ShareScan scanning and workflow solutions, and to Nuance OmniPage, PaperPort, and PDF Converter Professional desktop applications. The addition of Equitrac strengthe... (Read Full Article)

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    12. Nuance Launches PaperPort Anywhere Cloud Service | Business Wire

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    13. Nuance Introduces PaperPort Professional 14 | Business Wire

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    14. Nuance Closes Acquisition of Equitrac

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    15. Nuance Closes Acquisition of Equitrac

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    16. Apple Likely Partnering, Not Purchasing Nuance

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