Nuance Communications announced the acquisition of long time rival VoiceSignal today, giving the speech juggernaut a lock on device based speech recognition.  read more »

Does the acquisition of BeVocal strengthen or dilute the Nuance brand? It all comes down to this: is speech a solution or an enabling technology?  read more »

Today, on the second day of the SpeechTek conference, Nuance announced its acquisition of BeVocal (see press release here).

Though some see this acquisition as a big thumbs up from the speech recognition juggernaut, I see another finger being raised to its existing hosting partners.  read more »

Avaya tendered a $144 million offer for UK SIP software provider Ubiquity. With this, Avaya takes a large step towards filling part of the void left by Lucent's merger with Alcatel and takes another stab at long standing rival Nortel.

Ubiquity produces key components required when building carrier IMS networks: a SIP Application Server, development tools and a series of prepackaged applications. Strategically, if this goes through, it marks the beginning of a new Avaya.  read more »