Nuance Communications: Diverse Products, Diverse Business

With headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, Nuance Communications fulfills its work as a multinational computer software technology company offering imaging and speech applications. Nuance features a diverse product line but focus is currently placed on sever and embedded speech recognition products, automated telephone directory services, telephone call steering systems, optical character recognition software, desktop imaging software, and medical transcription software and systems. A portion of the company's efforts also goes into system and software development for government and military agencies.

As of 2008, Nuance has grown from its humble beginnings as Visioneer in 1992 through mergers, acquisitions, and organic company growth. More recent acquisitions include Transcend Services (April 2012), SafeCom (June 2012), Digitech Networks (September 2012), Quantim (September 2012), Accentus (November 2012), Copitrak (December 2012), VirtuOz (January 2013), Tweddle Connect (May 2013), Cognition Technologies Inc. (July 2013), and Varolii (October 2013). What sets the company apart from its competitors is the use of different methods towards "end-pointing", the process of defining where speech begins and ends.

Today, Nuance boasts of a rich heritage backed by innovative technology, pervasive solutions, and a strong financial background. Operating in over 70 countries all over the world, with regional offices in 39, Nuance approximately employs 12,000 individuals full-time. What's next for Nuance? Continued progress in the realms of reinventing relationships between technology and people.

At the heart of what Nuance does is the focus to develop the most natural and intuitive ways to use voice in taking command of information. The technology that the company has developed is considered to be at the forefront of speech software around the world, backed by Nuance's tireless aim to perfect a machine's ability to recognize and imitate the human voice. Some of the most popular products released by Nuance include the Dragon Premium, Dragon Professional, Dragon for Mac, Dragon Legal, Nina, eCopy ShareScan, Equitrac, OmniPage, Copitrak, PDF Converter, and Talks & Zooms.