Big news today in the Speech Recognition business. MacSpeech is being acquired by Nuance. From a technology standpoint, MacSpeech moved to using Nuance's Dragon speech recognition engine last year (which was a huge improvement) so the move is likely a continuation of that.
Nuance has been consolidating speech recognition technology companies, having previously acquired ViaVoice from IBM and Dragon from its original independent developers.
MacSpeech will be folded into Nuances Dragon Naturally Speaking lineup.
Press release below:
