Nuance has acquired MacSpeech, a provider of speech recognition technologies for Apple Macintosh. This will enable Nuance make Dragon NaturallySpeaking solutions available for Mac users. “We have heard from our customers — and from the Mac community at large — for years that they want Dragon for the Mac environment,” said Peter Mahoney, senior vice president and general manager for Dragon, Nuance Communications. “In 2008, MacSpeech licensed our underlying Dragon dictation technology to deliver MacSpeech Dictate, and the demand has only continued to grow, fueled recently by our recent launch of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone. MacSpeech’s knowledge of the Mac platform and its deep understanding of Mac users, coupled with our decades-long experience with speech recognition and the popular Dragon brand, will allow us to provide the world’s best dictation technology in a solution that is 100-percent Mac.”
Through acquiring MacSpeech, Nuance will be able to add new distribution channels, Dragon brand recognition, and marketing support. In addition, the acquisition presents more growth opportunities for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with new audiences and on new devices. “MacSpeech responded to the growing demand for a native Macintosh, high-quality speech recognition solution with MacSpeech Dictate integrated with the Dragon speech recognition engine,” said Andrew Taylor, president of MacSpeech. “We are excited to become part of the Nuance team and accelerate our ability to deliver great speech solutions to the Mac community.”
For further information, please visit www.nuance.com/macspeech.