Nuance Expands Mobile Portfolio with Jott's Voice-to-Text Offerings

Nuance (News - Alert) Communications, a global provider of speech and imaging solutions has announced it expanded its Mobile Division voice services portfolio with the addition of Jott’s voice-to-text offerings.

 

Nuance recently acquired Jott, a provider of mobile voice-to-text applications and the innovator behind Jott Assistant, a service that enables users to create notes, set reminders and appointments, send email and text messages as well as post to their favorite Web services – all by voice, from any device.

 

Jott Assistant service has been adopted by hundreds of thousands of users. The combined Nuance and Jott teams will now focus on extending the power of Jott across the mobile mass market. For this, Nuance plans to package and offer Jott Assistant to mobile operators as part of its voice services portfolio, including Nuance Voicemail-to-Text.

 

“Jott’s voice-to-text offerings have experienced a groundswell of adoption and positive industry recognition since the company’s inception, and we’re thrilled about the opportunity to expand our market reach and our voice services portfolio,” said Michael Thompson (News - Alert), senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “Together we will deliver a range of new services to our mobile operator and enterprise customers.”

 

Both companies plan to expand their combined offerings to enterprise customers as well. Jott’s service has already advanced mobile productivity in the enterprise market. Nuance, together with its Enterprise Unified Communications (News - Alert) partners, plans to offer a secure, highly scalable and differentiated Enterprise package including Nuance Voicemail-to-Text, Messaging, and Collaboration.

 

Jott also provides open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow for voice integration with third party CRM providers and other critical enterprise applications that require mobile access.

 

Nuance will continue to mainstream and expand the CRM partner program through its existing CRM partnerships, enabling enterprise application providers to better meet the needs of the evolving professional mobile market.

 

John Pollard, co-founder, Jott, commented that there has been dramatic increase in the demand for their mobile voice solutions, because they offer real business value, are easy to deploy, and are a delight to use.

 

“Nuance has consistently delivered groundbreaking mobile applications to billions of people worldwide. Our combined expertise will bring innovative and differentiated voice services to a variety of markets with tremendous scale,” Pollard said.