Burlington, Mass. – November 17, 2011 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its NDEV Mobile developer program is expanding further across Europe into Denmark, Portugal and Poland, supporting speech-to-text and text-to-speech for Danish, European Portuguese and Polish. NDEV Mobile makes it easier than ever for developers to take advantage of Nuance’s renowned Dragon Mobile SDK to voice-enable iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 apps with the power of Dragon.
6,000 developers have joined NDEV Mobile since its launch in January, as the program offers flexible service and pricing options that best meet their needs – NDEV Silver, NDEV Gold and NDEV Emerald. And with the addition of Danish, European Portuguese and Polish, the Dragon Mobile SDK now supports 20 languages for voice-to-text and more than 30 for text-to-speech – enabling developers across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia to bring to market voice-enabled for consumers globally.
“Developers all over the world are incredibly excited about voice-enabling their applications – but they demand a flexible, customizable platform that meets their unique needs,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “NDEV Mobile does just that, with a variety of languages, services and offerings – even free distribution capabilities – that allow developers to choose the mobile voice experience that works for them.”
NDEV Mobile has voice-enabled some of the market’s most popular apps, including Price Check by Amazon, Ask for iPhone, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, RemoteLink from OnStar, SpeechTrans, Yellow Pages and AirYell from Avantar, iTranslate, Taskmind, SayHi Translate, Vocre, Bon’App, Shopping List from Recipes.com, and many others.
NDEV Mobile offers three service tiers that enable developers great flexibility in how they voice-enable applications:
The Dragon Mobile SDK is available for iOS 5.0 (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), Android 2.1 and higher, Windows Phone 7.1 and via an HTTP web services interface. For more information about the NDEV Silver, Gold, and Emerald Services, please visit the NDEV Mobile developer portal at www.ndevmobile.com.
Dragon has long been a leading speech recognition application on the desktop, used by millions of people around the world. Nuance has launched an array of Dragon applications across a variety of mobile platforms including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, and more.
To learn more, visit www.nuancemobilelife.com.
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