Articles about Nuance

Microsoft subsidiary Nuance is using GPT-4 for a new physician notes app

Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for… Read More

Why Microsoft’s $19.7B deal to acquire Nuance is a ‘perfect fit’ and ‘trophy’ for Redmond tech giant

Microsoft’s giant purchase: The tech giant announced its second-largest acquisition ever on Monday: a pending $19.7 billion deal to swoop… Read More

Update: Microsoft will acquire Nuance Communications for $19.7B

UPDATE: Microsoft on Monday confirmed it will buy Nuance for $19.7 billion. Nuance CEO Mark Benjamin will retain his position and… Read More

Nuance buys Voicebox Technologies, scooping up speech-recognition and natural-language pioneer

Nuance Communications has quietly acquired Voicebox Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that was an early leader in speech recognition and natural… Read More

See you later, Swype: Popular text input keyboard discontinued as Seattle creators lament its demise

Not many technology products become a verb, as in “I Googled it” or “We Ubered.” But mobile keyboard startup Swype, created… Read More

Nuance brings together all of its Seattle employees in one downtown building

Nuance Communications, the Burlington, Mass.-based speech recognition and natural language technology company, is bringing its Seattle teams together into a unified… Read More

Swype debuts MLS-branded, soccer-themed Android keyboards

The popular Android-based Swype keyboard is getting a soccer makeover. Starting today, Swype users will be able to personalize their keyboards with Major… Read More

Mike McSherry departs Nuance three years after selling Swype for $100 million

Mike McSherry, a Seattle start-up veteran, has left Nuance Communications nearly three years after the company purchased Swype, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

Amazon continues growth spurt with expansion in Boston

Amazon is growing its footprint in Boston, expanding an office that handles everything from game development to speech recognition. The… Read More

Nuance responds to privacy concerns over its Swype keyboard having too much location data

Nuance is responding to privacy concerns today after customers complained that its Swype keyboard application was accessing their whereabouts excessively. In one… Read More

Apple building speech team in Boston, Nuance’s backyard

Apple isn’t known for putting engineers in far-flung offices. The company’s secretive nature tends to lend itself to keeping its… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio on stage: Here is our broadcast from Seattle’s Pioneer Square

Technology was the central topic, naturally, as we recorded the GeekWire radio show for the first time in front of… Read More

A Siri for advertising: These mobile ads talk back to you

Publishers are struggling to make money on mobile, a challenging scenario given that more folks are now consuming news and… Read More

SwiftKey for Android challenges Swype with integrated ‘Flow’ input

SwiftKey, the popular keyboard app for Android devices, launched a new version overnight that incorporates a feature called SwiftKey Flow,… Read More

Swype debuts Living Language to help create real-time, crowd-sourced dictionary

The Swype keyboard for Android devices already has a pretty robust dictionary, but now it is improving even more by… Read More

Take a spin with the new Swype: An Android keypad that learns from you

Swype is getting a facelift, just eight months after the Seattle upstart was gobbled up for $102 million by Nuance.… Read More

Nuance combines Swype with Dragon Dictation, looks for a few good ninjas to test it out

You’ve got to give the Nuance folks some credit for creativity. The company today unveiled a new update for Swype… Read More

Nuance to acquire Swype for more than $100 million

Nuance has agreed to purchase Seattle startup Swype for more than $100 million, according to GeekWire sources. The news was… Read More

Tech Moves: Jeff Lanctot returns to Razorfish; Bob Wise joins Opanga

Here’s our occasional look at new hires, appointments and other people on the move at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Jeff… Read More