Nuance’s NDEV Mobile Developer Program Announces ‘Appy Holidays Promotion

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. today debuted its NDEV ‘Appy Holidays Promotion for the NDEV Mobile developer program, designed to take advantage of the most popular mobile device season. The holiday speech promotion will enable developers participating in the Gold and Emerald NDEV programs that launch new apps to benefit from free speech transactions and device activations until January 14, 2013. Additionally, all Gold developers will have the minimum prepayment requirement waived entirely.

“We want to make it even easier for developers to voice-enable and deploy their apps in time for the holiday smartphone season”

The holiday season brings with it a flurry of new smartphones ready to experience the latest and greatest mobile applications powered by Dragon. With the Dragon Mobile SDK, developers can deliver a truly differentiated and compelling mobile app experience that gets people talking to each other and to the latest and greatest apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7.

“We want to make it even easier for developers to voice-enable and deploy their apps in time for the holiday smartphone season,” said Matt Revis, vice president and general manager, Dragon devices, Nuance Mobile. “More than 13,000 developers have taken advantage of the Dragon Mobile SDK, and with this promotion we can help more developers get their voice-enabled innovations into the market even faster.”

Leading brands in lifestyle, food, gaming, messaging, social and web browsing applications have recognized the benefit of integrating Dragon technology into their applications, including Coupons.com’s Grocery iQ, Price Check by Amazon, Ask for iPhone, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, SayHi Translate, OnStar RemoteLink, Bon’App, SnapGuide, Dolphin Sonar, Sonico iTranslate and many others.

Consumer demand for voice-enabled mobile apps has continued to fuel NDEV Mobile’s success. In addition to more than 13,000 developers participating in the program, NDEV supports over 30 languages for voice recognition and text-to-speech. NDEV Mobile is empowering developers to bring exciting new voice capabilities to millions of people in markets around the world.

To learn more about this holiday promotion, including terms and information, simply visit: www.dragonmobile.nuancemobiledeveloper.com/public/index.php?task=promo

NDEV Mobile now supports 34 speech-to-text languages including, U.S., UK and Australian English, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, European and Canadian French, European and Brazilian Portuguese, European and American Spanish, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish Mexican, Swedish, Taiwanese Mandarin, Turkish and Vietnamese. In addition, the languages that now support text-to-speech include, U.S., UK and Australian English, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Basque, Belgian Dutch, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, European and Canadian French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indian English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Scottish English, Slovak, South African English, Spanish Castilian, Spanish Mexican, Swedish, Taiwanese Mandarin, Thai and Turkish.

The Dragon Mobile SDK is available for iOS 4.0 and higher (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), Android 2.1 and higher, Windows Phone 7.5, and via an HTTP web services interface.

Have an app you want to power with Dragon? To learn more just visit our NDEV Mobile developer program page. To learn more about the Dragon Mobile Apps family, visit www.NuanceMobileLife.com.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.:

Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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