One Voice Technologies, Inc. (fka OVOE)

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Poor Nuance! Looks like they have the same problems as ONEV. Companies want their tech but want to keep all the credit. Kind of like Telnor/Telmex calling ONEV Iris. LOL,,,

"Nuance could also use an infusion of marketing mojo. Employees talk about a national TV commercial that ran last year to promote a partnership between Microsoft and Ford called "Sync." It will bring mobile-phone integration and voice control to several new Ford vehicles. In the ad, people speak commands to things that don't have voice recognition software: a man in a bathrobe orders his blinds to close before accidentally exposing himself to the neighborhood. A narrator intones, "Not everything responds to your voice like Sync.") But the ads didn't mention that Nuance provided the key technology.

The company also supplies the speech-recognition software for Google's free 411 service, 1-800-GOOG-411, "and we can't talk about that, either," Ricci says.

Both deals bring in revenue for Nuance. "We'd rather do the commerce" than get the credit for it, Ricci explains."

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/01/20/new_ways_to_say_hands_free/