Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
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Re: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
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#3Hopefully they'll fix Nuance's terrible website and support.
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#4What does Microsoft get out of this? They already have TTS and deep learning transcription, what technical capabilities does Nuance have that they don't have already (or can't develop for substantially less than $20B?)
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#5I think GitHub got better since the acquisition.
Re: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
#6What does Microsoft get out of this? They already have TTS and deep learning transcription, what technical capabilities does Nuance have that they don't have already (or can't develop for substantially less than $20B?)
Nuance owns a ton of patents and are extremely litigious.
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#7Is it just me or have speech recognition platforms like Siri actually gone backwards in the last few years (roughly coinciding with the AI/ML craze)?
It feels (anecdata) that Siri is doing a bit better on voice to tex when sending messages but much worse on simple commands like “turn off living room lights”.
Re: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
#8Hopefully they'll fix Nuance's terrible website and support.
Hopefully they will fix a couple of bugs in Dragon as well. I really would like them to have a release focused on bug fixes rather than greater accuracy
Re: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
#9After having tried Microsoft's automatic captioning on Microsoft Stream which is akin in accuracy to monkeys typing something random on a typewriter, I think this seems like a good choice.
Re: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B
#10Now Nuance.
It seems Microsoft is still actively continuing to buy more companies and it seems Discord is still on the menu.