Nuance Announces Acquisition of Voice-Recognition Competitor Vlingo

By Karla Robinson
December 27, 2011

Although previously opponents in various patent infringement lawsuits, Nuance announced last week its acquisition of voice-recognition competitor Vlingo.
“Our combined resources afford us the opportunity to better compete, and offer a powerful proposition to customers, partners and developers,” Vlingo CEO Dave Grannan said.
“Nuance cited that a main reason for the acquisition is a ‘$5 billion market opportunity’ that spans phones, PCs, tablets, cars, music players and navigation devices,” reports Mashable, “and it plans to integrate natural language interfaces across these areas and devices.”
The collaboration hopes to provide a competitor to Siri and Google’s expected assistant Majel as more mobile and consumer electronics companies look to have conversational voice interactions with their devices.

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