Nuance Communications, the company behind the popular T9 predictive text technology, announced that it has joined the Symbian Foundation. As a result, other Foundation members will be able to leverage Nuance’s mobile voice and text input solutions to “facilitate the creation of powerful and intuitive multi-modal interfaces.” Eventually, the goal is to enhance user experiences and “enable users to maximize the full potential of their devices.”
Commenting on the move, Nuance Mobile’s Michael Thompson said: “We expect that the adoption of Series 60 phones from Nokia, Samsung, LG and others is going to rapidly expand over the next few years. This proliferation of Symbian’s open source platform provides Nuance with an exciting opportunity to bring our innovative speech, predictive text and handwriting solutions to an increasingly pervasive mobile platform base around the world.”
For the record, some Nuance’s speech and predictive text solutions are already available for many Symbian S60 devices around the world — including XT9, T9 Nav and TALKS&ZOOMS.