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Nuance is teaming up with ZTE in a deal that would see the Chinese company shipping handsets with Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer, enabling “robust speech capabilities” as a result. The mentioned technologies can be used for both command and control, and text-to-speech; and ZTE plans to integrate them across markets and platforms, including Android and Windows Mobile.
Nuance VSuite enables mobile consumers to speak a variety of commands such as dialing, and/or launching games and other applications. On the other hand, Nuance Vocalizer provides text-to-speech functionality for text message readout and command confirmation.
Both Nuance’s solutions support more than 40 languages worldwide — including U.S. English, Simplified Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese — giving ZTE a chance to bring these capabilities to more phones in more markets around the world.
And if you wonder when the first ZTE phone with Nuance’s voice technology will be announced, the answer is – we’ve no idea. We’ve no doubts, however, ZTE will emphasize such capability in its press release when such a device is launched.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
