Nuance Extends Dragon TV with Nuance Mix
May 16 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
TV manufacturers and cable providers can
leverage Nuance’s natural language developer platform to extend
conversational experiences customized for the connected
home
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that
it is extending its Dragon TV solution with its Nuance Mix NLU
developer platform, giving cable operators and TV manufacturers the
ability to create customized conversational experiences for their
TVs, remotes, set-top boxes, smart home companion apps and content
services. Nuance will be demonstrating Dragon TV and Nuance Mix’s
ability to extend the smart TV experience into an
Internet-of-Things driven connected home at 2016 INTX and at the
INTX Imagine Park on May 18th.
A recent McKinsey Connected Homes report found that 50% of
consumers who own two or more connected home devices would like a
universal hub. But without the ability to quickly and easily engage
these devices, IoT devices can quickly go from intelligent to
inconvenient.
“Voice is already proving to be an incredibly valuable element
of the connected TV user interface. We’ve powered billions of voice
transactions in Smart TVs with nearly 75% of consumers using the
voice interface when available,” said Kenn Harper, vice president,
Nuance Devices and Ecosystem. “Voice will have a similar impact on
the Smart Home as conversational interactions are key to user
adoption among the Internet of Things. Cable operators and TV
manufacturers have a signification opportunity to extend their TV
experience to other devices in the home. With the average user
spending more time in front of their TV than any other digital
fixture in the home, the voice interface from the TV is primed to
serve as a central hub for the household.”
Nuance’s Dragon TV platform already powers millions of smart TVs
globally, giving manufacturers and service providers the ability to
customize and integrate voice-enabled command and control and
content search – all optimized for the TV experience. By offering
the Dragon TV functionality from within the Nuance Mix platform,
not only can TV providers get immediate access to all the existing
Dragon TV functionality, but they can now use the Nuance Mix
development tools to build fully custom natural language
interactions to control other apps and devices in the home, such as
the thermostat, lighting, home security systems, music speakers,
and much more.
For example, with a single user interface on the TV someone can
simply say “find me dramas with Bruce Willis,” then ask “who is at
the front door” to get a live video stream from an integrated home
security system, then quickly ask the TV to “dim the lights” to
control their smart lighting system just in time for the start of
the movie. And with Dragon TV’s voice biometrics, the smart home
experience becomes incredibly personalized in an environment where
many connected devices are shared. Dragon TV’s voice biometrics
also gives parents the ability to control program access for
younger viewers.
Nuance Mix Delivers the Most Open, Flexible Set of Voice
Development Tools
Nuance Mix gives developers access to the same foundational
technology that powers some of the world’s most pervasive virtual
assistants, built on Nuance’s leading AI and cognitive
capabilities. Coupled with Nuance’s leading voice recognition and
text-to-speech, developers can use Mix to create custom voice and
natural language models within minutes that are fully optimized to
work together to deliver incredible accuracy for a set of tasks
defined by the developer.
And Nuance Mix offers a unique ability to automate a workflow
and roll anonymized speech data back into their models to
continuously improve accuracy. As a result, the user experience
continues to improve over time – and developers gain behavioral
insights into new features that can or should be powered by
voice.
Nuance Mix offers the most comprehensive set of speech tools and
services for IoT and consumer electronics, and is an open platform
offering cross operating system and cross platform support through
open internet protocols like WebSockets. And for ease of
development, Nuance Mix offers SDKs for iOS and Android, as well as
for sample applications in popular languages including Python, C,
Javascript, and more.
Dragon TV powered by Nuance Mix will be made available this
summer, supporting US and UK English, French, Italian, Spanish,
Japanese and Chinese. Nuance Mix also provides access to Nuance’s
Speech Kit SDK with support for more than 40 languages for voice
recognition, and more than 80 distinct voices for
text-to-speech.
Learn more about Nuance Mix and Dragon TV at Nuance’s booth 1654
at INTX and about development opportunities for the connected home
and TV. Can’t make it to INTX? Check out Nuance Mix and Dragon TV
in action here.
Nuance’s portfolio of voice, touch and natural language
understanding innovations are defining a new generation of
intelligent systems and personal assistant technologies. With
Nuance technology, people experience more humanized interactions
with the world’s best phones, tablets, computers, cars, TVs, apps
and services from leading manufacturers, network operators and
service providers.
Join the conversation by following Nuance on Twitter at
@NuanceDev and @NuanceInc, and subscribing to the What’s next
blog.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice and
language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.
Its technologies, applications and services make the user
experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact
with devices and systems. 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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