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Microsoft kauft Siri-Miterfinder Nuance für fast 20 Milliarden Dollar | #Acquisitions

Microsoft kauft Siri-Miterfinder Nuance für fast 20 Milliarden Dollar | #Acquisitions | 21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries, curiosity ( insolite)... | Scoop.it

Nuance Communications ist vor allem mit zwei Produkten bekannt geworden, von denen eines nie den Namen des Unternehmens trug: mit der Transkriptionssoftware Dragon und mit Siri. Vor fast genau zehn Jahren hieß es, Apple verhandle mit Nuance über eine Übernahme, doch letztlich wurde nur die Spracherkennung von Nuance ein Teil der virtuellen Apple-Assistenzsoftware. Dafür übernimmt nun Microsoft das US-Unternehmen mit Sitz in Burlington, Massachusetts.

19,7 Milliarden Dollar zahlt Microsoft nach eigenen Angaben, oder 56 Dollar pro Aktie, was knapp 23 Prozent über dem Kurs vom Freitag liegt.

Software von Nuance Communications kommt in der Gesundheitsbranche, im Finanz- und Telekommunikationsbereich und im Einzelhandel zum Einsatz.

 

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Nuance Communications ist vor allem mit zwei Produkten bekannt geworden, von denen eines nie den Namen des Unternehmens trug: mit der Transkriptionssoftware Dragon und mit Siri. Vor fast genau zehn Jahren hieß es, Apple verhandle mit Nuance über eine Übernahme, doch letztlich wurde nur die Spracherkennung von Nuance ein Teil der virtuellen Apple-Assistenzsoftware. Dafür übernimmt nun Microsoft das US-Unternehmen mit Sitz in Burlington, Massachusetts.

19,7 Milliarden Dollar zahlt Microsoft nach eigenen Angaben, oder 56 Dollar pro Aktie, was knapp 23 Prozent über dem Kurs vom Freitag liegt.

Software von Nuance Communications kommt in der Gesundheitsbranche, im Finanz- und Telekommunikationsbereich und im Einzelhandel zum Einsatz.

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions

 

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Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion | #Acquisitions

Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion | #Acquisitions | 21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries, curiosity ( insolite)... | Scoop.it

Microsoft is buying AI speech tech firm Nuance for $19.7 billion, bolstering the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s prowess in voice recognition and giving it further leverage in the health care market, where Nuance sells many products. Microsoft will pay $56 per share for Nuance, a 23 percent premium over the company’s closing price last Friday.

Nuance is best known for its Dragon software, which uses deep learning to transcribe speech and improves its accuracy over time by adapting to a user’s voice. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. (Though to what degree Siri currently relies on Dragon to answer users’ queries is unclear.) Dragon is an industry leader in terms of transcription accuracy.

The $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance is Microsoft’s second-largest behind its purchase of LinkedIn in 2016 for $26 billion. It comes at a time when speech tech is improving rapidly, thanks to the deep learning boom in AI, and there are simultaneously more opportunities for its use.

 

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Microsoft is buying AI speech tech firm Nuance for $19.7 billion, bolstering the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s prowess in voice recognition and giving it further leverage in the health care market, where Nuance sells many products. Microsoft will pay $56 per share for Nuance, a 23 percent premium over the company’s closing price last Friday.

Nuance is best known for its Dragon software, which uses deep learning to transcribe speech and improves its accuracy over time by adapting to a user’s voice. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. (Though to what degree Siri currently relies on Dragon to answer users’ queries is unclear.) Dragon is an industry leader in terms of transcription accuracy.

The $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance is Microsoft’s second-largest behind its purchase of LinkedIn in 2016 for $26 billion. It comes at a time when speech tech is improving rapidly, thanks to the deep learning boom in AI, and there are simultaneously more opportunities for its use.

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions

 

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