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PublicNASDAQ:NUAN
Date12/95
Raised
Post IPO Valuation

General Information

Websitenuance.com
Twitter@NuanceEnt
CategorySoftware
Phone781-565-5000
Employees
Founded1992
Descriptionspeech-based solutions

Offices

Corporate Headquarters
1 Wayside Road
Burlington, MA, 01803
USA

People

VP Advertising & Content
Director, R&D
Chairman, CEO
Chief Creative Officer
Principal Engineer
Application Support
Vice President

Former People

Founder, CEO
Senior Engineer
General Manager, Enterprise Division
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Acquisitions

Total$786M
Ditech Networks, 9/12 $22.5M
Transcend Services, 3/12 $300M
Vlingo, 12/11
Swype, 10/11
Loquendo, 8/11
Webmedx, 7/11
SVOX, 6/11
Equitrac, 5/11 $157M
ShapeWriter, 6/10
Language & Computing, 3/10
MacSpeech, 2/10
SpinVox, 12/09 $102M
Jott, 7/09
SNAPin Software, 8/08 $204M
Tegic, 6/07

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Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications, Inc. provides speech, imaging and keypad solutions for businesses, organizations and consumers worldwide. The company’s solutions are used every day by people and businesses for tasks and services, such as requesting account information from a phone-based self-service solution, dictating records, searching the mobile Web by voice, entering a destination into a navigation system, or working with PDF documents.

The company, through the acquisition of Philips Speech Recognition Systems GMBH (PSRS), provides speech recognition solutions for the European healthcare market. Desktop Dictation The company’s Dragon products help people and businesses improve productivity by using speech to create documents.

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Sources

  1. Nuance To Acquire Ditech Networks For $1.45/Share To Bolster Voice-To-Text Capabilities (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Nuance Buys Transcription And Speech Editing Company Transcend For $300M In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. After Years Of Patent Litigation, Nuance Acquires Vlingo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Swype, The Maker Of Speedy Virtual Keyboards, To Be Acquired By Nuance For $100 Million+ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Nuance to Acquire Loquendo (eon.businesswire.com) [edit]
  6. Nuance buys Atlanta's Webmedx (masshightech.com) [edit]
  7. Nuance Acquires Speech Recognition Software Company SVOX (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Nuance Buys Enterprise Print Management Software Developer Equitrac For $157M In Cash (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Nuance Acquires ShapeWriter, Ramps Up Pressure on Seattle Startup Swype (xconomy.com) [edit]
  10. Nuance Enhances Natural Language Processing Portfolio, Acquires L&C (nuance.com) [edit]
  11. Nuance Acquires MacSpeech, Extending Dragon NaturallySpeaking Family to the Mac (nuance.com) [edit]
  12. BBC (news.bbc.co.uk) [edit]
  13. Nuance Acquires Jott, Expands Mobile Division (informationweek.com) [edit]
  14. Citation Needed [add]
  15. Nuance to Acquire Tegic Communications (timewarner.com) [edit]
  16. HIS Talk (histalk2.com) [edit]
    Nuance rumored to be on Apple's iOS 5, stock jumps (masshightech.com) [edit]
    Nuance CEO sells $1.3M in stock (masshightech.com) [edit]
    Nuance in talks to acquire Swype for over $100M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
    Nuance Communications To Buy QuadraMed's Health Information Management Business (rttnews.com) [edit]
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