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Apple's New Data Center Focus of Nuance Voice Recognition Partnership?

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Late last week, we reported on claims that Apple is in discussions with voice recognition firm Nuance Communications regarding some sort of partnership presumably linked to rumors that Apple is integrating significant voice capabilities into iOS 5.

TechCrunch now follows up to report that the deal seems to revolve around Apple utilizing Nuance's technology in its new North Carolina data center to drive centrally-hosted voice services. The partnership is said to likely be introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) early next month.
In digging into the information about the relationship between the two companies, we had heard that Apple might actually already be using Nuance technology in their new (but yet to be officially opened) massive data center in North Carolina. Since then, we've gotten multiple independent confirmations that this is indeed the case. And yes, this is said to be the keystone of a partnership that Apple is likely to announce with Nuance at WWDC next month.

More specifically, we're hearing that Apple is running Nuance software - and possibly some of their hardware - in this new data center. Why? A few reasons. First, Apple will be able to process this voice information for iOS users faster. Second, it will prevent this data from going through third-party servers. And third, by running it on their own stack, Apple can build on top of the technology, and improve upon it as they see fit.
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As was reported previously, Nuance is a leader in voice recognition technology and holds a number of key patents in the field, making Apple's interest in a partnership a natural fit given its acquisition of Siri last year and rumors of the company trying to incorporate aspects of voice recognition and artificial intelligence into its systems.

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That' would be great because current voice recognition technology are fairly poor.
 
This makes sense, Apple needs to secure something that others cannot copy (easily anyway).
 
voice recognition is so useless and dumb, can u imagine all those ppl talking to their gadget on the tram
 
How long before TechCrunch reports that there are rumors that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Apple's NC data center?

(too soon?) :rolleyes:
 
bushido said:
voice recognition is so useless and dumb, can u imagine all those ppl talking to their gadget on the tram
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Works pretty darn well for dialing phone numbers or contacts. Even the Dragon dictation app is pretty good at dictation.

Though voice recognition is not practical (i.e. dumb) to use in all situations.

sigamy said:
How long before TechCrunch reports that there are rumors that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Apple's NC data center?

(too soon?) :rolleyes:
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Not really, I just don't get it.
 
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How on earth would net-based voice recognition be "faster"? Faster than what, driving to Apple HQ and asking a question?
 
Recognize this!

I would rather they added handwriting recognition to iOS for the iPad. The handwriting recognition on the Newton was actually quite usable after it was upgraded after the initial problems. I would rather have text input for note taking supported by Apple in iOS, with handwriting recognition being optional. Using a third-party note taking app and a stylus is never going to be as good as if Apple builds it into iOS and supplies their own stylus optimized to be used on Apple devices. My two cents based on how I see people using iPads around the office and at other sites. It is a feature that would make the iPad a lot more useful for me.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
Works pretty darn well for dialing phone numbers or contacts. Even the Dragon dictation app is pretty good at dictation.

Though voice recognition is not practical (i.e. dumb) to use in all situations.
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Not sure if you knew or not but Dragon Dictation is nuance technology.

Voice recognition will be critical in vehicle integration. I think its great for exercising/sports. I use voice commands while snow skiing and love it.

Voice recognition in general has been pretty shotty throughout the years so I agree that it has limited uses but if this technology ends up being really good I think it will the next big step in terms of HCI.
 
I dont care for voice recognition, never used it. I find it stupid.
 
JAT said:
How on earth would net-based voice recognition be "faster"? Faster than what, driving to Apple HQ and asking a question?
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Well since you will have your itunes library available to stream..... and your ical and documents uploaded to icloud....
"play (artist) (song)" or "calender for (month, date, time)"
 
How many of you who "don't get voice recognition" don't drive cars regularly?

Based on TV ads I'm seeing, voice-controlled maps, music, and search features are the next big thing in cars. Apple would sure love for everyone to be doing that with their iPhone instead of with the built-in system that all cars will soon have. They're gonna have to start competing for attention now if they want people to think that way.

They want a 2013 consumer to say "ok, Mr. Dealer, it's nice that this car has voice recognition, but will it connect with and control my iPhone? That's all I really want."
 
Enough already with this data center - it looks like it's main function is to DRIVE RUMORS & SPECULATION.

Cloud based iTunes / new MobileMe functionality / whatever - yada yada.

Why is this taking so long to open?
 
Sounds like Apple has something awesome coming to iOS 5. Can't wait.
 
Full of Win said:
This will nuke the low end AT&T data plans.
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You clearly have no understanding of the technology. I recommend you try Google's voice search. It also does the work on their servers. And the app only has to transmit very limited information, not exactly the whole waveform of your blubbering.
 
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