“Nuance, a leader in digital speech recognition, has long been thought to have contributed technology to Apple’s digital assistant, though neither company had confirmed that until today,” Kevin Bostic reports for AppleInsider.
“Speaking at AllThingsD‘s D11 conference, Nuance CEO Paul Ricci finally confirmed that Nuance’s technology is in fact a part of Apple’s Siri,” Bostic reports. “‘We are the fundamental provider of voice recognition for Apple,’ Ricci admitted when asked whether Nuance was to blame when Siri doesn’t understand requests.”
Bostic reports, “Ricci explained that Nuance does not handle Siri’s artificial intelligence layers, only the voice recognition. Further, Ricci said that Siri has both embedded and cloud technology for voice recognition, but that the feature is overall a cloud solution.”
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