Andre Yoskowitz
5 Apr 2014 0:49
Apple has acquired the veteran automatic speech recognition (ASR) firm Novauris Technologies.
Novauris was split from the British research division of Dragon Systems, now known as Nuance Communications, popular for their voice dictation and voice search technology. The company is full of voice tech vets, including those who worked at Nortel, Aurix, Dragon and SRI (the company that helped build Siri).
Apple, as is their standard comment, says "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans."
Supposedly, Apple made the acquisition last year and the team has been working on improving Siri, which has its share of problems.
Novauris Technologies has a full list customers including Verizon Wireless, Panasonic, Samsung, SingTel, Alpine, BMW and many more.
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