Nuance's XT9 Simplifies Text Input on Sharp AQUOS TVs

Nuance's Successful Predictive Text Input Lets People Quickly and Easily Find and Discover TV Content; Days of Painstakingly Entering a Search Letter by Letter via Remote Control are Over

Burlington, Mass. – August 14, 2012 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that the Sharp AQUOS TV ASIA features intelligent text input powered by Nuance’s XT9, optimized for IPTVs. With XT9, Sharp AQUOS ASIA consumers experience a simpler way to find web content and navigate menus.

Today’s IPTV experience provides consumers with seemingly limitless contents and entertainment options; but, traditional remote controls make it difficult to navigate menus and search the web – and nearly impossible to discover new content. Nuance’s XT9 predictive input technology automatically completes likely search terms after only a few characters are entered, changing the way people engage their traditional remote controls to enter complete words and phrases. XT9 for TV features word correction and auto punctuation, and lets people easily alternate between numbers, letters and symbols.

XT9 supports over 80 languages worldwide, and is available alongside Nuance’s successful Dragon TV voice and natural language understanding platform to provide TV manufacturers with the ability to offer consumers a flexible, multimodal voice and touch connected TV experience.

“There’s a new revolution underway around the digital living room search experience,” said Michael Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “Consumers demand the ability to quickly get to the content they love, and easily discover new entertainment options.”

Availability

Sharp’s 2012 AQUOS IPTV ASIA featuring Nuance’s XT9 will begin shipping in August 2012, supporting English, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Farsi and Arabic. For more details on Sharp’s AQUOS TV portfolio and availability visit www.aquos-world.com/en/.

To learn more about XT9, Dragon TV and Nuance Mobile’s broad portfolio of voice and touch innovations, visitwww.nuancemobilelife.com.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) 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.

Words by the Millions, Sorted by Software

Excerpt from an article in

The New York Times (Business)

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Words by the Millions, Sorted by Software

By ANNE EISENBERG

IT just keeps growing — the vast electronic archive of books, journals and scholarly literature stored on the Web. But scientists are aiming to keep up with this trove of collective knowledge by devising computer-based tools to winnow and quantify it.

David M. Blei of Princeton University is among those who are teaching computers to sift through the digital pages of books and articles and categorize the contents by subject, even when that subject isn’t stated explicitly.

For decades, of course, librarians and many others have labeled books and documents with keywords. “But human categorization can only go so far,” said Dr. Blei, an associate professor in computer science. “We don’t have the human power to read and tag all this information.”

To cope with the information explosion, Dr. Blei and other researchers write algorithms so that computers can sift through millions of works and find their common themes by sorting related words into categories. It’s a field called probabilistic topic modeling.

Other research tools identify shifts in language over time that could signal important cultural, scientific or historical changes. At Harvard, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, who jointly lead a group there called the Cultural Observatory, will soon inaugurate a browser that searches for such language changes in a large online repository of scientific papers known as arXiv (pronounced like “archive”).

Users will be able to type in one or two words at the site, called Bookworm-arXiv, and immediately see a graph showing the ups and downs of the phrase’s use in the archive, Dr. Michel said. (A test version is at arxiv.culturomics.org.) Users can then click on the graph and drill down to read the original papers in which the terms appear, tracing ideas back toward their roots, or to spots where scientific ideas spread from one field to another.