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Microsoft doubles down on healthcare and conversational AI with purchase of Nuance
For the past 15 years, Nuance has been the largest independent speech recognition vendor servicing healthcare and enterprise customer service markets. With this acquisition, Microsoft gets serious healthcare chops, an arsenal of conversational AI assets (including voice biometrics), digital customer service technologies, and other assets like vehicle telematics and dictation.
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Cool new products from USA CBD Expo 2019
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Singapore spruces up e-government platform, touts service portfolio
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Twilio Segment CEO: Your marketing strategy needs developer input
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QUT researchers accidentally discover atomic-scale wires
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Huawei launches Singapore lab for mobile developers
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