Nuance Communications

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Nuance Communications, Inc.

Formerly	ScanSoft, Inc.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Software
Founded	1992; 33 years ago (1992) as Visioneer
Headquarters	Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people	Chairman and CEO Mark Benjamin
Products	IVR, natural language understanding, OCR, speech synthesis, speech recognition, PDF, consulting, government contracts
Number of employees	6,500+ (2021)
Parent	Microsoft (2021-present)
Website	www.nuance.com

Nuance Communications, Inc. is an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, that markets speech recognition and artificial intelligence software.

Nuance merged with its competitor in the commercial large-scale speech application business, ScanSoft, in October 2005. ScanSoft was a Xerox spin-off that was bought in 1999 by Visioneer, a hardware and software scanner company, which adopted ScanSoft as the new merged company name. The original ScanSoft had its roots in Kurzweil Computer Products.

In April 2021, Microsoft announced it would buy Nuance Communications. The deal is an all-cash transaction of $19.7 billion, including company debt, or $56 per share.^[1] The acquisition was completed in March 2022.