It's paying $56 per share, a generous offer that makes it a $16 billion USD deal. Nuance's software forms the backbone of Apple's Siri tool, a crucial part of what's driven the software maker's corporate value higher and higher in recent years. Microsoft announced this morning that it's buying Nuance, the makers of Dragon speech recognition software.
But based on its latest corporate purchase, Microsoft might be taking another stab at voice-powered interaction. Most Windows users I've seen treat it like an annoyance to be avoided, instead of an integral part of the system, as Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri have become. Cortana, Microsoft's digital voice assistant named after that hologram lady from HALO, didn't exactly set the world on fire.
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