Rovi Announces Joint Initiative With Nuance Communications - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Rovi Corp. (ROVI), a digital entertainment technology company, Monday announced a joint initiative with Nuance Communications, Inc. (NUAN) to deliver an end-to-end solution for conversational entertainment discovery.

Nuance and Rovi will provide a fully integrated conversational voice interface that ultimately delivers a personalized entertainment experience where people can speak naturally to quickly and easily find and access content.

Rovi noted that Nuance's Dragon TV voice recognition, text-to-speech and voice biometrics will be integrated with Rovi's unique, cloud-based Conversation Services. Together, Nuance and Rovi will enable device manufacturers and service providers to offer reliable and highly scalable voice interfaces that result in fast and relevant search and recommendations.

In addition, the combined offering lowers a customer's total cost of ownership, accelerates voice services deployment, and delivers compelling user experiences.

Rovi will showcase the combined Nuance and Rovi search and discovery offering, along with other discovery and monetization solutions during IBC 2015.