Look Out, Nuance: Apple's Office Near MIT Is Stocking Up With Speech-Tech Talent

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An anonymous reader writes "Apple's had a small, very secretive office in Cambridge, MA for a few months now. And we finally know what they're doing: Building a team that works on speech technology for Siri. Sure, it's interesting for Apple to have a remote engineering team. And hiring from MIT is a no-brainer. But here's why this is a bigger deal: Apple has always relied on Nuance, a Boston-area company, for the speech-recognition technology behind Siri. By branching out with its own speech team — stocked with former Nuance scientists, no less — Apple could very well be signaling a move away from relying on Nuance for this core technology. And the speech wars are just heating up: Microsoft and Amazon both have speech engineering offices in the Boston area too." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Look+Out%2C+Nuance%3A+Apple's+Office+N ear+MIT+Is+Stocking+Up+With+Speech-Tech+Talent%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F169s9rD) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F13%2F07%2F26%2F1457244%2Flook-out-nuance-apples-office-near-mit-is-stocking-up-with-speech-tech-talent%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dface book) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/07/26/1457244/look-out-nuance-apples-office-near-mit-is-stocking-up-with-speech-tech-talent?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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