Nuance Adds Voice Capabilities to Nokia and Open Sources

Nuance Communications, provider of speech and predictive text solutions, and Nokia  have entered into a agreement to deliver innovative mobile speech and predictive text capabilities for  Nokia mobile devices worldwide.

Nokia will use Nuance's mobile input solutions to provide new forms of user interactions with voice and text.

Nuance and Nokia will collaborate on open protocols to which development partners can leverage and extend a rich set of advanced multi-modal features, applications and consumer experiences on Nokia devices. Through a series of open programming interfaces, language models and development tools, those partners will have access to a vibrant and dynamic environment where mobile innovation around advanced multi-modal consumer interactions can flourish.