Neowin News Feed for: Nuance

Microsoft introduces Dragon Copilot, a unified voice AI assistant for clinicians

Pradeep Viswanathan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:02:01 +0000

Microsoft's Dragon Copilot merges Dragon Medical One and DAX Copilot, offering clinicians a powerful AI assistant for multilingual note creation, automated tasks, and streamlined EHR integration. Read more...

Epic and Microsoft expand AI partnership to 'address healthcare's most pressing needs'

Omer Dursun — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:16:01 +0000

Microsoft and Epic are expanding their partnership to bring generative AI to healthcare, addressing clinician burnout and productivity issues. Over 50 Azure-powered AI solutions will be deployed. Read more...

Microsoft's new DAX Express will include GPT-4 AI to help healthcare workers

John Callaham — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:02:02 +0000

Created by Microsoft's subsidiary Nuance, DAX Express will offer healthcare workers a way to automate documentation to better assist patients more directly. A private preview launches in the summer. Read more...

Microsoft completes $20 billion acquisition of Nuance

Usama Jawad — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it has finally completed its acquisition of Nuance Communications in an all-cash deal worth $19.7 billion. The two will work together to build assistive technologies. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: AD woes, acquisitions galore, and Bingo was her name-o

Usama Jawad — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:16:01 +0000

While this week was relatively slow due to the holiday season, we do have some notable items to recap including Active Directory woes, a couple of acquisitions, and what almost became Cortana's name. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: New Surface devices, April Patch Tuesday, and game updates

Florin Bodnarescu — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:40:01 +0000

A new acquisition, new content for games, and even new Surface devices were all unveiled this week. If you haven't had time to catch up, make sure to do so via our handy weekly recap. Read more...

Microsoft confirms Nuance acquisition for nearly $20 billion

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has officially announced its acquisition of Nuance Communications in a transaction valued at a whopping $19.7 billion. The purchase will bolster Microsoft's efforts in the cloud and AI. Read more...

Microsoft could acquire AI firm Nuance Communications in a $16 billion deal

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:42:01 +0000

Microsoft is reportedly set to announce a deal to acquire Nuance this week. Nuance specializes in artificial intelligence and speech recognition, and its technology was used for Siri. Read more...

Is Susan Bennett the original voice of Siri?

John Callaham — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:32:42 +0000

Susan Bennett, an Atlanta voice actor, claims that her voice is the original one that was used by Apple as the basis for its Siri voice command feature in recent versions of iOS. Read more...

Rumor: Leaked email states iOS 7 could be released on September 10

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:36:17 +0000

An email that was discovered on the Nuance servers (who are the developers of the Siri personal assistant for iOS) seems to suggest that iOS 7 will finally be made available on the 10th of September. Read more...

Nuance releases Dragon Notes for Windows 7 and 8

John Callaham — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:14:23 +0000

Nuance has launched Dragon Notes, their new PC note taking software that works with both Windows 7 and touchscreen Windows 8 devices, available for download for $19.99. Read more...

Nuance offers voice assistant software for Ultrabooks

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:50:17 +0000

Nuance and Intel have announced plans to offer Dragon Assistant, a voice recognition software package that will be pre-loaded on some Ultrabook-based notebooks later this year. Read more...

Swype to be bought out by Nuance

Paul Ferson — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:12:26 +0000

A report suggests that Swype is in the process of being acquired by Nuance, for a price over $100 million. The official announcement is expected tomorrow at some point. Read more...

Rumor: Apple chatting with Nuance about possible deal?

John Callaham — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:24:58 +0000

The rumor mill that surrounds Apple is pretty massive and every day there's always something that's leaked out into the Internet blogs and media sites that involves the normally very secretive company. One of the... Read more...