Comments on: Say What? Nuance Buys Jott for Speech Recognition Service

By: Why On-the-Fly Mobile Translation Technology Won’t Happen Soon – GigaOM

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:27:32 +0000

[...] Nuance, which has continued to expand its portfolio with the recent acquisitions of SpinVox and Jott , would be a particularly attractive (if expensive) [...]

By: SpinVox: From Flush to Flushed – GigaOM

SpinVox: From Flush to Flushed – GigaOM — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:54:53 +0000

[...] notes for a professional transcription service. It also has been aggressively pursuing patents and startups in the speech-recognition space, as it battles both Google and Microsoft as voice recognition grows [...]

By: Jott Competitor Under The Microscope : The New Dork Times

Jott Competitor Under The Microscope : The New Dork Times — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:44:59 +0000

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By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:25:25 +0000

I’m almost certain that Jott uses Phillipino call centres to transcribe voice calls (or at least they did a year ago). Interesting because it possibly implicates them in the same ways that Spinvox is in this BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8163511.stm

If they’re sending data recorded within the EU outside these borders, they could be breaking EU data protection laws.

By: Jott is snapped up « Scotsman on a Horse

Jott is snapped up « Scotsman on a Horse — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:14:29 +0000

[...] Say What? Nuance Buys Jott for Speech Recognition Service Nuance Communications, a provider of various speech recognition and predictive text products, said today it’s purchased Jott, whose service translates spoken messages into text and then emails or inserts them into various web services, for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, John Pollard, co-founder and CEO of Jott, will become a general manager in Nuance’s mobile division. Jott had previously raised $5.4 million from Bain Capital, Ackerley Partners, Draper Richards and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom’s investment firm. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Jott tightens the screwsA free alternative to Jott at Dial2DoUse your cell phone to send email Published in: [...]

By: Jott Speech Recognition Bought Out By Nuance | BerryReview.com »

Jott Speech Recognition Bought Out By Nuance | BerryReview.com » — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:05 +0000

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By: Igor Jablokov

Igor Jablokov — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:38:45 +0000

James, thank you for the kind words. That was an insightful counter regarding our references (for some reason the commenting system does not permit me to put this under your note). Regarding the food chain, there’s no reason to discuss that in an open forum; noisy fish get eaten in this industry and we’d rather remain the dark matter in this microcosm. We’ve learned to keep our mouths shut after we unveiled our initial concept at TechCrunch and saw competitors develop their own knockoffs.

We have plans that we’ve been crisply executing on for quite awhile, with accuracy that now surpasses Google, Microsoft and Nuance. Nuance is simply a collection of bright people; and some of these same people responsible for their success now work at Yap (as do ex-IBMers, ex-Intel, ex-Nvidia, etc.). Any entity that wants this capability for themselves needs just ask us via our website. You’ll be up and running in minutes.

By: James Im

James Im — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:03:32 +0000

Igor – Great to hear that, but your customer references are only pointing to start-ups at least on your reply. What are your plans on moving up the food chain enabling larger enterprise/service providers as well as the ISV/SI’s to take advantage of your solution/platform? Nuance kidna owns the TTS/ASR market and have access to large customer base in multiple verticals; selling to existing customers are always much easier and I would love to see you guys start making noise/news!!!

I’m assuming Jott has been sold not so much due to their user base/how they were monetizing, but the fact that they have been able to build traction with their service/application as well as successfully integrating with third party API/Web Services to create a whole new experience using the telephone/social media or the new buzz (real-time capabilities) lead to an acquisition and I’m sure Nuance would use such usage case or cases as a reference/benchmark to sell more stuff into their existing Enterprise/SP customers.

Let’s now dig into to how much it was paid for the acquisition.

By: Igor Jablokov

Igor Jablokov — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:11:34 +0000

This capability you’re envisioning already exists as part of the Yap Platform. It’s already enabling a whole host of Jott competitors, from GotVoice, reQall to YouMail.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:07:04 +0000

Goog says it uses its own.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:30 +0000

Cool technology.

Which technology is Google using?

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:05:17 +0000

I believe they use a combination of speech engines from Nuance and others.

By: Amplify | Tin Can Communications® Newsroom » Jott bought!

Amplify | Tin Can Communications® Newsroom » Jott bought! — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:02 +0000

[...] ReAmplify Chris Parandian says:A great service. Congrats to the jott team!Clipped from gigaom.comNuance Buys Jott for Speech Recognition ServiceNuance Communications, a provider of various [...]

By: Blogreader

Blogreader — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:08:57 +0000

There was an embargo on the news? Now that’s an interesting story.

From the other website it seems like an investors webpage gave hints to the purchase. I didn’t know that Nuane oR Jott was trying to control this info.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:52:25 +0000

That explains why they wouldn’t tell me who Jott licensed its speech recognition tech from. Thanks. Think I need to work on an update.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:50:22 +0000

I didn’t realize that they had the story yesterday night (I was in bed when they posted the buyer, and this story was already filed). I took the embargo on the news, but John was clearly sleuthing away while I snoozed. They’re awesome like that at TechFlash.