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Nuance Allowing Developers to Easily Add Speech Recognition to their Apps

If you’re an App developer you might be interested in Nuance’s (known for their speech recognition software) latest pursuit. Nuance is now enabling other developers to incorporate and take advantage of their speech recognition software and place it into third party apps, expanding any app’s functionality in a very cool way.

Nuance has previously teamed up with Ask.com to deliver their speech recognition technology to the Ask for iPhone app and have now opened up the Nuance Mobile Developer Program for all developers. By joining, Nuance says developers will gain access Dragon Mobile SDK with support for more than eight languages plus assorted support forums and documentation.

If you’re interested in using Dragon’s Mobile SDK to add speech recognition, head over here. Full announcement is posted after the break.

Bigger, better, faster, cooler. That’s what today’s mobile consumer wants AND needs! How can mobile developers keep up?! Easy! Speech-enable your iOS or Android app within minutes with FREE access to the renowned Dragon Mobile SDK as a member of the Nuance Mobile Developer Program (NMDP)!!!

NMDP members gain access to a robust mobile development portal that delivers everything from full access to Nuance Mobile SDK’s, training materials, user support forums and more - to assist you in building an innovative app that will help you keep your current app fans happy and help you win some new app fans through the cool new app functionality! Plus – there are more eight different languages you can speech-enable your app for including US and UK English, European Spanish, European French, German, Italian and Japanese—with even more languages on tap for 2011! And if it is text-to-speech (TTS) functionality that you seek, look no further—our TTS capabilities cover more than 35 languages!!!

And as you may have read previously on this blog – a number of apps have already been deployed through NMDP including Ask.com –“Integrating Nuance’s intuitive voice recognition brought a new level of user interaction to our Ask for iPhone question and answer service.  Finding information is incredibly easy when you can simply speak a question versus having to type it in,” said Tony Gentile, Senior Vice President, Products, Ask.com US.

Never before has access to  a speech platform as powerful as the Dragon Mobile SDK been made available – and for free!  So what are you waiting for? Registration to the Nuance Mobile Developer Program is now open! Start speech-enabling your mobile app today!

To register for NMDP and learn more about the program, please visit us at www.nuancemobiledeveloper.com. Or to hear more about NMDP program, watch our intro video on the Nuance Mobile YouTube Channel here.

[Via Dragon Mobile Blog]

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