Nuance’s Proven Speech Recognition and Predictive Text Applications Increase Ease of Use and Discovery on Innovative 8 Megapixel Camera Phone
Nuance Communications, Inc., announced that Nuance’s VSuite® 3 and XT9® Smart Input products are both embedded on the commercially available Samsung Memoir™ (SGH-t929), enhancing the user experience of the eight megapixel camera phone, available exclusively through T-Mobile USA. VSuite enables Memoir users to leverage their own voice as a complementary interface for accessing and enjoying many device features, while XT9 offers predictive text support for a variety of applications, making it faster and easier to send text messages and emails, as well as quickly type URLs via the full touch virtual QWERTY keypad.
In addition to its advanced imaging capabilities, the Memoir features Samsung’s unique TouchWiz™ user interface, a Web browser, a music player, and assisted GPS navigation. The Samsung Memoir and the Samsung Behold™, also exclusively available from T-Mobile USA, both offer voice command and control capabilities accompanied by the audio-visual feedback that is made possible with VSuite.
VSuite on the Memoir provides many application shortcuts via its “Go To” commands, including:
- “Go to Web” to open the mobile Web browser;
- “Go to Calendar” to input and reference appointments;
- “Go to Ringtones” to find and reset ringtones;
- “Go to Voicemail” to dial voicemail;
- “Go to Games” to discover the games folder;
The Samsung Memoir also features Nuance’s XT9 predictive text input software, which is optimized for mobile devices with advanced input methods such as touchscreens and QWERTY keypads. XT9 allows users to easily switch between input modes, which is particularly valuable for devices like the Memoir. Alternating between numbers, letters, symbols and languages is simple with XT9. XT9 also corrects common misspellings while typing, making it faster and easier to write text messages and emails as well as enter search queries in the Memoir’s full HTML Web browser.
“Voice recognition and predictive text are becoming a core component of the various mobile handsets brought to market as a way to elevate the user experience, and bring consumers’ favorite applications and services closer to the surface,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “VSuite takes voice recognition capabilities way beyond calling contacts. Users can browse the Web, find new ringtones, and discover a cool mobile game. And the same can be said for XT9 in making text input for messaging and browsing easier and faster. The possibilities for today’s mobile devices are endless.”
The latest version of Nuance’s VSuite 3 framework allows users to leverage simple commands that engage connected services that support complex grammars and large vocabulary recognition for local business and Web search, and give OEMs the ability to build and deploy custom text-to-speech applications. Nuance’s VSuite and XT9 software are part of the larger Nuance Mobile portfolio that has solutions embedded in more than 3.75 billion shipped handsets worldwide. Nuance has extensive relationships with carriers around the world and with every major mobile OEM.
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