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Nuance and Gracenote Announce Partnership to Advance VoiceEnabled Music and Video Experiences
Ten-Year Collaboration Will Allow Consumers to Use Voice to Find and Discover
Music and Videos in Phones, Tablets, Apps, Digital TVs, and Cars
Las Vegas (CES 2012) – January 10, 2012 – Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN)
and Gracenote® have announced a ten-year strategic partnership to accelerate voice innovations
and next-generation solutions for interactive music and video experiences on phones, tablets, in
cars, on smart TVs, and in the cloud – all across a broad range of content providers. The
partnership brings together the leading innovators for voice and digital media metadata
respectively, whose technologies today are used by the biggest names in the mobile, consumer
electronics and automotive industries.
Nuance’s leading voice and natural language understanding technologies will leverage
Gracenote’s MediaVOCS ® database of phonetic transcriptions of artist names, albums and
music genres, as well as movie and TV metadata. The first solution with the combined
technologies will be made available via Nuance later this year – VoCon Music Premium. VoCon
Music Premium will deliver an unmatched voice experience where consumers can simply speak
the name of almost any artist, song, or album, and instantly get results – even for the most
difficult artist names for systems to recognize, such as Ke$ha, AC/DC and 311.
“Never before has there been a greater consumer demand for constant and unlimited access to
content – be it music, videos or the web content. But that unlimited access must be fast, easy and
simple,” said Michael Thompson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile.
“By combining our voice and natural language understanding innovations with Gracenote’s
leading phonetic data and metadata, Nuance will bring to market an entirely new media-specific
platform for cars, phones, TVs, and mobile apps, giving consumers an amazing media
experience anywhere they access content.”
Nuance and Gracenote will also focus their partnership on developing compelling nextgeneration media experiences that take advantage of the vast media resources and content
available to consumers – specifically content in the cloud. Nuance and Gracenote will
collaborate to bring voice technologies to market that drive effortless media discovery and
navigation of media libraries containing millions of songs, movies, shows, and artist and actor
content. Ultimately, OEMs and electronics manufacturers will have more flexibility in
differentiating their music and video offerings, while providing consumers with the fastest and
easiest ways to find and experience the media they want, when they want it – no matter where
they are or what they are doing.
“Gracenote’s passion is enhancing how people enjoy their favorite music, movies and TV
programs, and by expanding our relationship with Nuance, we’re working together to develop
the ultimate speech-powered solutions that will enable unlimited and intuitive access to all the
media content the world has to offer,” said Stephen White, President, Gracenote.
About Gracenote
A pioneer in digital media, Gracenote, Inc. provides music and video content and technologies to
the world’s hottest entertainment products and brands. The company’s partners in the
entertainment community include major music publishers and labels, prominent independents
and movie studios and television networks. A wholly owned, independent subsidiary of the Sony
Corporation of America (SCA), Gracenote has offices in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Seoul, and
Taipei with worldwide headquarters in Emeryville, California. For more information visit
www.facebook.com/PoweredbyGracenote.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.
Gracenote is a registered trademark of Gracenote, Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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