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Sep. 12, 2008

Speech recognition expert solutions provider Nuance Communications (NC) announced the commercial availability of its V-Suite software on several new Motorola handsets in the U.S.

The handset maker has expanded its offering to the latest commercial version of Nuance’s V-Suite 3 to deliver hands-free voice control capabilities to new CDMA handset models, including the V-755, V-750, VE-20 and the Motorola V-950.

On average, people usually don’t speak the way they type in commands into a search engine online. So Nuance’s software will convert the words into meaningful text that a search engine would normally get.

“Our software takes what you said and what we think you’re trying to get at, then submits keywords to partners,” he said. (!)

Nuance’s mobile speech solutions range from simple voice dialing to speech-based Internet search.

Nuance is offering some demos during this week’s CTIA and Entertainment convention showing its voice search, which allows end-users to speak what they’re searching for.

The product goes one step further in that it will do contextual 'search' work behind the scenes to interpret exactly what the user is looking for, thereby getting more accurate results, according to Mike Wehrs, v.p. of industry affairs for Nuance.

Nuance is using a partner for the search function but isn’t identifying the partner or partners.

In August, Nuance announced it was acquiring SNAP-In, a company that develops self-service handset-based technology for the mobile industry. That acquisition is still on schedule, he said.

Wehrs said he recently demonstrated the product at an executive dinner.

He used voice commands to find a good recipe for lemon meringue pie. In return, the system came back with award-winning recipes. (!)

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Source: Nuance Communications.