Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Nuance Communications http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Nuance Is Powering The Voice Recognition Capabilities For Ask.com iPhone App http://pulse2.com/2010/11/23/nuance-is-powering-the-voice-recognition-capabilities-for-ask-com-iphone-app/ http://pulse2.com/2010/11/23/nuance-is-powering-the-voice-recognition-capabilities-for-ask-com-iphone-app/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:46:19 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=38326 Continue reading →]]>
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has announced today that they are powering voice recognition capabilities for the Askc.om iPhone app. Nuance’s voice recognition technology is also being used on the Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search apps. “The voice-to-text feature really resonates with users, and makes the whole question asking experience on a mobile device easier than ever,” stated Ask.com SVP of Products Tony Gentile. [Nuance PR]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2010/11/23/nuance-is-powering-the-voice-recognition-capabilities-for-ask-com-iphone-app/feed/ 0 Microsoft Poaches Larry Heck From Yahoo! http://pulse2.com/2009/02/12/microsoft-poaches-larry-heck-from-yahoo/ http://pulse2.com/2009/02/12/microsoft-poaches-larry-heck-from-yahoo/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:13:06 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=10471 Continue reading →]]> The poaching continues!  Microsoft Corporation has just hired Larry Heck from Yahoo!  Heck was a VP of Search & Advertising Sciences at Yahoo! Labs.  Now Heck will be reporting to Satya Nadella, SVP of the online services division at Microsoft.

Before Yahoo!, Heck received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and worked at Stanford’s Research Institute.  Heck also was VP of R&D at Nuance Communications.  “We look forward to welcoming him to the team,” wrote Microsoft in a statement.  Other executives that Microsoft recently poached from Yahoo! recently include Qi Lu, Sean Suchter, and Scot Moore.

Yahoo! was sued by Nuance after Heck quit.  Nuance claimed that Heck poached a dozen workers from their company to join Yahoo!  It’ll be interesting to see if any of those workers leave Yahoo! for Microsoft now.

[via Bloomberg]

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