Joint Initiative with Leading Speech Technology Provider Will Bring
Integrated Conversational Entertainment Discovery Capabilities to Global
TV Service Providers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) and Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:
NUAN) today announced a joint initiative to deliver an end-to-end
solution for conversational entertainment discovery. Nuance and Rovi
will provide a fully integrated conversational voice interface that
ultimately delivers a personalized entertainment experience where people
can speak naturally to quickly and easily find and access content.
Nuance’s leading Dragon
TV voice recognition, text-to-speech and voice biometrics will be
integrated with Rovi’s unique, cloud-based Conversation
Services. Together, Nuance and Rovi will enable device manufacturers
and service providers to offer reliable and highly scalable voice
interfaces that result in fast and relevant search and recommendations.
In addition, the combined offering lowers a customer’s total cost of
ownership, accelerates voice services deployment, and delivers
compelling user experiences.
“With so much content and so many channels to choose from, consumers
want instantaneous and effortless access to their favorite video
content,” said Scott Taylor, senior vice president of devices, Nuance
Mobile. “Voice transforms the content discovery experience by getting
people directly to the entertainment they want in just a few words. And
by integrating our TV-optimized voice capabilities with Rovi’s natural
language search and discovery, service providers will be able to deliver
an even more personalized experience for consumers.”
Nuance’s Dragon TV gives service operators and OEMs the ability to
easily integrate and deliver a seamless user experience that makes it
faster and easier to find shows, programs, and On-Demand content just by
speaking. Leveraging both embedded and cloud-based technologies, Dragon
TV can be deeply integrated right on a remote, TV or set top box – fully
customizable across more than 40 languages.
“As digital content choices continue to proliferate across various
platforms, media and entertainment services are becoming increasingly
competitive, and providers are seeking to enrich their offerings with
features that bring the most relevant entertainment content straight to
viewers,” said Michael Hawkey, senior vice president and general manager
of discovery, Rovi. “Rovi’s initiative with Nuance is another step
forward in driving innovation in entertainment discovery based on voice
and natural conversation. Our integrated approach enables providers to
quickly deploy advanced services that will further enhance a user’s
entertainment experiences.”
Customers around the world work with Rovi to create personalized
entertainment experiences that connect users to the content they want.
Rovi Conversation Services provides a fluent, error-tolerant voice
solution that delivers convenience and control exceeding today’s typical
command-driven voice systems. Its next-generation conversation
interfaces allow free-flowing dialogue that delivers fast and
contextually relevant search results. Rovi achieves this through
predictive semantic intelligence and a deep understating of
entertainment within a real-world context.
Rovi Conversation Services is powered by a dynamic Knowledge Graph,
which maintains semantic, real-time information on more than 100 million
entertainment-related entities, like program titles, celebrity names,
brands and other relevant elements. This enables Rovi to anticipate
viewers’ preferences by applying a range of contextual relevance filters
that take into consideration the time of day, day of week and location.
Rovi will showcase the combined Nuance and Rovi search and discovery
offering, along with other discovery and monetization solutions during
IBC 2015 in Stand G01, Hall 14. Learn more about Rovi and the company’s
IBC show announcements at http://www.rovicorp.com/ibc2015.
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.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment experience.
The company’s pioneering guides, metadata and recommendations continue
to drive program search and navigation on millions of devices across the
globe. With a new generation of cloud-based discovery capabilities and
emerging solutions for interactive advertising and audience analytics,
Rovi is enabling premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive
consumer satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience
across multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover more
about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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Corporation’s most recent report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June
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or
Nuance
Communications
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