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`Nuance® 7.0
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`Powerful Speech Recognition for Transactions
`over the Telephone
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`Nuance 7.0 — Nuance’s core speech recognition software —
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`provides unparalleled accuracy, scalability and reliability
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`for voice-driven applications via the telephone. Across
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`enterprises, telecommunications carriers and e-businesses,
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`Nuance software voice enables a broad range of services
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`including banking, airline reservations, product ordering,
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`brokerage, voice dialing, directory assistance, voice-enabled
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`Internet content and much more.
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`Powerful speech recognition for transactions over the telephone
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`Nuance. Speech. Understanding. Action
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`Unprecedented Accuracy and Performance:
`Wireless and Landline
`Nuance leads the industry with the largest number of deployed
`systems in more than 13 countries around the world. American
`Airlines, Charles Schwab, UPS, Bell Atlantic are just a few of our
`customers. And every Nuance system delivers unparalleled
`accuracy, often exceeding 96%. Nuance 7.0 further enhances
`recognition accuracy by addressing the unique needs of cell
`phone users. With groundbreaking enhancements to wireless
`and hands-free recognition, Nuance 7.0 delivers exceptionally
`high accuracy in noisy environments such as automobiles.
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`Nuance 7.0 also handles very large vocabularies. Nuance
`systems have demonstrated the ability to support more than one
`hundred million names and business listings in an automated
`directory assistance application with very high accuracy.
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`Carrier-grade Scalability and Reliability
`Capable of handling millions of calls per day, the Nuance server
`software is implemented utilizing a unique distributed architec-
`ture that supports simultaneous load balancing of speech
`recognition, natural language understanding, voice authentica-
`tion, and text-to-speech. This fault-tolerant architecture ensures
`optimal usage of every server CPU in the network thus
`minimizing the amount of hardware required, and the associated
`cost, for a given speech system.
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`Extensive International Support
`Nuance 7.0 provides extensive international support for a total
`of 15 languages, including American English, Australian English,
`Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Cantonese, Czech,
`Dutch, European French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin,
`Spanish, Swedish, and UK English. Nuance plans to support 20
`languages by the end of the year.
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`Nuance 7.0 also breaks new ground with Dynamic Language
`Detection™. This capability enables users to choose their
`preferred language, and to be recognized in their language
`of choice anytime during a call. This is especially valuable
`for systems like those in French-speaking Canada.
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`Nuance has more deployed systems with barge-in than any
`other speech vendor. Barge-in allows callers to interrupt voice
`prompts without waiting for the prompt to finish. Allowing for
`a more natural and rapid exchange between the caller and the
`voice-enabled system, barge-in is particularly efficient for
`frequent users who are familiar with the system.
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`Secure V-Commerce
`Nuance 7.0 is integrated with Nuance Verifier 2.0.
`The combination of the two technologies - natural language
`speech recognition and voice authentication - ensures a level
`of user convenience and security that was previously unattain-
`able. Simultaneous recognition and authentication lowers costs
`and improves user satisfaction by shortening overall call
`durations, and reducing fraud. It can also eliminate the need
`for passwords and personal identification numbers.
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`System Management Made Open and Easy
`To keep speech systems running at their best, Nuance 7.0
`provides carrier-grade system management tools and functional-
`ity. These include SNMP support for tools such as HP
`OpenView, IVR system admin consoles and other tools for
`persistent system monitoring and tracking from any machine
`on the network.
`On-the-fly functions, such as grammar "hot swaps," eliminate
`the need to shut down for system tuning and modifications.
`This provides for easier system development and 100%
`system uptime.
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`Flexible Standards-based APIs
`Interfaces are available from Nuance and partners for all the
`major development languages including Java, ActiveX/COM, C,
`and C++. Moreover, building voice-driven applications is made
`easy with Nuance 7.0 and Nuance SpeechObjects.
`SpeechObjects are a set of Java-based reusable software
`components which can quickly be combined to make
`complete applications.
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`Nuance 7.0 Features
`Wireless and hands-free support
`Recognition accuracy exceeding 96%
`Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and name dictionary
`Support for 15 languages
`Dynamic Language Detection™ for multi-lingual systems
`SNMP support for improved system management
`Unique distributed architecture for scalability and reliability
`Hot "swappable" grammars
`Enhanced barge-in
`Standards-based APIs
`Support for all major telephony and IVR platforms
`Integrated with Nuance Verifier for security
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`About Nuance
`Nuance is the leader in natural voice interface software that
`makes access to information, transactions, and services over
`the telephone convenient and secure.
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`Every day, millions of people place calls, make travel reserva-
`tions, trade stocks, and interact with other telecommunications,
`enterprise and web-based systems running Nuance’s speech
`recognition, language understanding, and voice authentication
`software.
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`Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with offices
`and partners supporting multilingual solutions around the
`world.
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`©2000 Nuance Communications Inc. Nuance, Nuance Verifier, Nuance
`Voyager, Nuance V-Builder, Nuance SpeechObjects and V-Commerce are
`trademarks of Nuance Communications Inc. All other trademarks are the
`property of their respective holders.
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