Nuance Communcations (NASDAQ: NUAN), a Burlington, MA-based voice and imaging software company, has acquired a maker of speech recognition software for Apple’s Macintosh computers, MacSpeech, the company announced today. The acquisition of Salem, NH’s MacSpeech will extend Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking product line, which translates voice to text, as a native Mac application. Nuance has also had a footprint in Mac products through its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search mobile apps for iPhone, which enable users to view text messages, e-mails, and website search results by speaking.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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