{"id":1119,"date":"2021-04-12T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/microsoft-to-buy-ai-and-speech-technology-firm-nuance-for-16bn\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:38:16","slug":"microsoft-to-buy-ai-and-speech-technology-firm-nuance-for-16bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/microsoft-to-buy-ai-and-speech-technology-firm-nuance-for-16bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to buy AI and speech technology firm Nuance for $16bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal comes as Microsoft builds up its cloud-computing operation for healthcare and business customers<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is to buy the artificial intelligence and speech technology firm Nuance Communications for about $16bn (\u00a312bn), as it builds up its cloud-computing operation for healthcare and business customers.<\/p>\n<p>Nuance, known for pioneering speech technology and helping to launch Apple\u2019s virtual assistant, Siri, operates in 28 countries and reported revenues of $1.5bn in its last full financial year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/12\/microsoft-to-buy-ai-and-speech-technology-firm-nuance-for-16bn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a74f291984572e802ecd61b87baaa95c6cb9842b\/0_0_2000_1201\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d84435a70e47d5761d307929aee8253e\" title=\"Microsoft to buy AI and speech technology firm Nuance for $16bn\" \/>Deal comes as Microsoft builds up its cloud-computing operation for healthcare and business customers<br \/>\nMicrosoft is to buy the artificial intelligence and speech technology firm Nuance Communications for about $16bn (\u00a312bn), as it builds up its cloud-computing operation for healthcare and business customers.<br \/>\nNuance, known for pioneering speech technology and helping to launch Apple\u2019s virtual assistant, Siri, operates in 28 countries and reported revenues of $1.5bn in its last full financial year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal comes as Microsoft builds up its cloud-computing operation for healthcare and business customers Microsoft is to buy the artificial intelligence and speech technology firm Nuance Communications for about $16bn (\u00a312bn), as it builds up its cloud-computing operation for healthcare and business customers. Nuance, known for pioneering speech technology and helping to launch Apple\u2019s virtual &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/12\/microsoft-to-buy-ai-and-speech-technology-firm-nuance-for-16bn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft to buy AI and speech technology firm Nuance for $16bn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}