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Nuance Unveils Dragon TV
TV, Device and Set-Top Box OEMs and Service Operators Will Transform the
Digital Living Room with Nuance’s Voice, Natural Language Understanding and
Touch Innovations for Content Discovery and Social Media Engagement
Las Vegas and Burlington, Mass. – January 9, 2012 – Nuance Communications Inc.
(NASDAQ: NUAN) today unveiled Dragon TV, a unique voice and natural language
understanding platform for TV, device and set-top box OEMs and service operators. Dragon TV
makes finding and accessing shows, movies and content in today’s digital living room easy and
fun for consumers. Leveraging Nuance’s voice and natural language understanding capabilities,
Dragon TV creates the “lean-back experience” consumers demand, with the ability to easily find
content by speaking channel numbers, station names, show and movie names. People can even
search for content by actor and genre, and stay connected via Twitter, Facebook and Skype.
An estimated 1.6 billion TVs will be connected to the web by 2014 according to Strategy
Analytics – and the broad spectrum of channels and media options available today are already
nearly impossible to navigate with traditional TV remotes. Consumers have more options and
media than they are even aware of, and still can’t find “what’s on.” Dragon TV changes all of
that, giving OEMs and service operators the ability to deliver TVs, set-top boxes and
applications that let consumers find and experience content with Nuance’s leading voice
technologies. Further, Nuance’s natural language understanding technologies allow consumers to
say virtually anything to quickly and easily discover shows, movies and more. For instance,
people can say:
- “Go to PBS”
- “What’s on Bravo at 9 p.m. tonight?”
- “When is Ellen on?”
- “Watch Dexter on DVR”
- “Find comedies with Vince Vaughn”
- “Play David Guetta on Music Choice”
Dragon TV also makes it even easier to stay connected from the couch by leveraging the unique
messaging and social media capabilities that today’s digital TV OEMs and operators offer, such
as email, messaging, Twitter, Facebook and Skype. For instance, people can say:
- “Send message to Julie, ‘Old School is on TBS again this weekend – super excited’”
- “Send update to Facebook, ‘Anyone else looking forward to Celebrity Wife Swap?’”
- “Call John via Skype” and be talking in no time
Dragon TV is incredibly flexible, and can be integrated across embedded, connected and hybrid
modes, allowing OEMs and service operators to take advantage of the content available on the
device and in the cloud. Dragon TV features include:
Seamless Application Control: Digital home devices are now integrating applications for email, social networking and interactive communication. Dragon TV offers a straightforward and
simple method of input to drive adoption.
Discovering: A wealth of information is now available over TV, including program guide
listings, personal media and web content. Dragon TV delivers an integrated, universal search
solution allowing users to access content with ease.
Messaging: From social networking to e-mail, the availability of messaging applications on TV
continues to grow. With Dragon TV users are empowered to interact and communicate via an
integrated text and speech solution.
Accessibility: Governments and standards bodies are now mandating accessible solutions for
TV. Leveraging Nuance’s core speech technologies and natural language understanding, Dragon
TV makes TV accessible to everyone.
Complex Acoustics: With Nuance’s Far-Talk technology, Dragon TV is able to break through
the interferences of multiple acoustic sources and focus on what’s important for interpreting
commands – the user’s voice.
“Traditional search on televisions is tedious and amazingly outdated,” said Mike Thompson,
senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “Dragon TV brings an amazing
voice experience directly to the living room, similar to what people do every day on their phones
and in their cars.”
Availability
Dragon TV is currently available for TV, device OEMs, operators and developers, supporting all
major TV, set-top box, remote control and application platforms, including Linux, Android and
iOS. For more information, visit www.nuancemobilelife.com.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language
solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and
services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with
devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience
Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
Nuance and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance
Communications, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States of America and/or other countries.
All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
The statements in this press release relating to future plans or future events or service, are
forward-looking statements which are subject to specific risks and uncertainties. These could
involve particular market trends, competition factors and other risks described in the documents
submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual results, events and
services may vary significantly from the forecasts. The reader is warned not to rely on these
forward-looking statements without reservation, since these are simply reflections of the current
situation.
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