Nuance Communications Inc., the world’s leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions today announced their participation at GITEX 2006. Nuance would participate along with Master Distributor, Emerging Technologies, a leading developer and implementer of voice and call processing integrated solutions in the Middle East.
Speech technologies have been touted as the next big killer-application in the technology world. With growing worldwide adoption, Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech are expected to transform how people create, share and use documents and the way they interact with information, irrespective of its form or mode of access. Nuance and Emerging Technologies will showcase the world’s largest, award-winning portfolio of speech and imaging solutions at GITEX. They will be located at Sheikh Rashid Hall - Stand No. 914.
“This would be the first time that such a comprehensive portfolio of high quality speech recognition and imaging tools and solutions would be displayed, anywhere in the Middle East. Our participation at GITEX reaffirms our commitment to the region and reiterates our faith in the tremendous potential our offerings have in this market,” said Peter Hauser, Sr. Vice President and General Manager Nuance International.
"Through continuous research and development over the last 5 years with focus on speech recognition, we have localized Nuance portfolio of offerings and through the various speech applications that we made available to the market, organizations from various sectors can now offer their products and services in a very friendly way to each and every mobile user in the Arab World” said Sassine Mazraani, Managing Partner, Emerging Technologies.
At the prestigious event, the companies will present unique demonstrations of their solutions currently deployed across pioneering organizations in the Middle East. They will also showcase their industry leading portfolio, including their flagship products, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Powerscribe and PDF Converter Professional. Nuance will also showcase Nuance Dragon™ Mobile Dictation, a new Nuance® Mobile technology for mobile device users to dictate SMS messages using continuous speech.
Nuance and Emerging Technologies have several on-going engagements with companies in the Middle East across various industries, including banking and financial services, government, aviation, telecom, and oil and gas, amongst others.
• Nuance speech solutions make the user experience more compelling and expand business potential. Through its dictation, embedded and network speech solutions, Nuance offers the world’s premier portfolio of speech technologies, expertise and solutions that transform the way people interact with businesses, information and devices. Speech technologies are today used in call centers, in the car, in navigation devices and in a wide range of mobile phones and handheld devices.
• Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions provides comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used changing the way people process and work with medical information. Through the integration of speech recognition and natural language processing within existing health information management workflow, Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organizations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability of their medical documentation.
• Nuance imaging solutions, through unrivaled features, accuracy and performance, eliminate barriers to productivity by automating a range of document processes – increasing productivity, saving time and reducing costs. With products for enterprises, small-to-medium-sized businesses and home offices , the imaging solutions are used to put the power of PDF on every business desktop; convert paper and PDF into documents that can be easily edited; and simplify scanning and document management using multifunction scanners and networked digital copiers.
About Nuance Communications, Inc
Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for business and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications, and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share, and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
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About Emerging Technologies
Emerging Technologies is a UAE based company owned by the Cassells Group of Abu Dhabi. It is the first company in the Arab World to tackle Arabic Speech Recognition with all its various accents and dialects. The Company was established in 2001 and has been growing year over year since then. It has gained a good reputation in UAE and due to its local success is currently a regional player in the Gulf and Arab Countries.
