{"id":326676,"date":"2010-02-16T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=63516"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:31:53","slug":"nuance-acquires-macspeech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326676","title":{"rendered":"Nuance Acquires MacSpeech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Software\/\">Software<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/acquisitions\/\">acquisitions<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Erin Kutz wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/\">Nuance Communcations<\/a> (NASDAQ: <a onclick=\"window.open(this.href); return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=NUAN\">NUAN<\/a>), a Burlington, MA-based voice and imaging software company, has acquired a maker of speech recognition software for Apple&#8217;s Macintosh computers, MacSpeech, the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/news\/pressreleases\/2010\/20100216_macspeech.asp\">announced<\/a> today. The acquisition of Salem, NH&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macspeech.com\/\">MacSpeech<\/a> will extend Nuance&#8217;s Dragon NaturallySpeaking product line, which translates voice to text, as a native Mac application. Nuance has also had a footprint in Mac products through its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonmobileapps.com\/\">mobile apps<\/a> for iPhone, which enable users to view text messages, e-mails, and website search results by speaking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/02\/16\/nuance-acquires-macspeech\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20Nuance%20Acquires%20MacSpeech%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=63516\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/02\/16\/nuance-acquires-macspeech\/&#038;t=Nuance%20Acquires%20MacSpeech\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/02\/16\/nuance-acquires-macspeech\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=Nuance+Acquires+MacSpeech&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F02%2F16%2Fnuance-acquires-macspeech%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e0166c71665847a4b805a1248b486b40&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e0166c71665847a4b805a1248b486b40&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2218\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VY9OuOmtx890GaN0vivL6i_00qU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VY9OuOmtx890GaN0vivL6i_00qU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VY9OuOmtx890GaN0vivL6i_00qU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/VY9OuOmtx890GaN0vivL6i_00qU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/tGh1Eb795QM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software, deals, acquisitions Erin Kutz wrote: Nuance Communcations (NASDAQ: NUAN), a Burlington, MA-based voice and imaging software company, has acquired a maker of speech recognition software for Apple&#8217;s Macintosh computers, MacSpeech, the company announced today. The acquisition of Salem, NH&#8217;s MacSpeech will extend Nuance&#8217;s Dragon NaturallySpeaking product line, which translates voice to text, as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}