Mobile, wireless, speech recognition

Nuance, Nokia in Partnership

Wade Roush 10/8/08

Nuance Communications, the Burlington, MA-based maker of speech recognition software, said today it has struck a multi-year agreement with Finnish mobile giant Nokia to provide speech and predictive-text technologies for Nokia mobile devices. The two companies also agreed to work together on advanced input technologies, including open programming interfaces that outside developers could use to create new features for Nokia devices. The exact terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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