Rovi and Nuance Deliver End-to-End Solution for Natural Language Entertainment Discovery
September 14 2015 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Joint Initiative with Leading Speech Technology
Provider Will Bring Integrated Conversational Entertainment
Discovery Capabilities to Global TV Service Providers
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) and Nuance Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced a joint initiative to deliver an
end-to-end solution for conversational entertainment discovery.
Nuance and Rovi will provide a fully integrated conversational
voice interface that ultimately delivers a personalized
entertainment experience where people can speak naturally to
quickly and easily find and access content.
Nuance’s leading Dragon TV voice recognition, text-to-speech and
voice biometrics will be integrated with Rovi’s unique, cloud-based
Conversation Services. Together, Nuance and Rovi will enable device
manufacturers and service providers to offer reliable and highly
scalable voice interfaces that result in fast and relevant search
and recommendations. In addition, the combined offering lowers a
customer’s total cost of ownership, accelerates voice services
deployment, and delivers compelling user experiences.
“With so much content and so many channels to choose from,
consumers want instantaneous and effortless access to their
favorite video content,” said Scott Taylor, senior vice president
of devices, Nuance Mobile. “Voice transforms the content discovery
experience by getting people directly to the entertainment they
want in just a few words. And by integrating our TV-optimized voice
capabilities with Rovi’s natural language search and discovery,
service providers will be able to deliver an even more personalized
experience for consumers.”
Nuance’s Dragon TV gives service operators and OEMs the ability
to easily integrate and deliver a seamless user experience that
makes it faster and easier to find shows, programs, and On-Demand
content just by speaking. Leveraging both embedded and cloud-based
technologies, Dragon TV can be deeply integrated right on a remote,
TV or set top box – fully customizable across more than 40
languages.
“As digital content choices continue to proliferate across
various platforms, media and entertainment services are becoming
increasingly competitive, and providers are seeking to enrich their
offerings with features that bring the most relevant entertainment
content straight to viewers,” said Michael Hawkey, senior vice
president and general manager of discovery, Rovi. “Rovi’s
initiative with Nuance is another step forward in driving
innovation in entertainment discovery based on voice and natural
conversation. Our integrated approach enables providers to quickly
deploy advanced services that will further enhance a user’s
entertainment experiences.”
Customers around the world work with Rovi to create personalized
entertainment experiences that connect users to the content they
want. Rovi Conversation Services provides a fluent, error-tolerant
voice solution that delivers convenience and control exceeding
today’s typical command-driven voice systems. Its next-generation
conversation interfaces allow free-flowing dialogue that delivers
fast and contextually relevant search results. Rovi achieves this
through predictive semantic intelligence and a deep understating of
entertainment within a real-world context.
Rovi Conversation Services is powered by a dynamic Knowledge
Graph, which maintains semantic, real-time information on more than
100 million entertainment-related entities, like program titles,
celebrity names, brands and other relevant elements. This enables
Rovi to anticipate viewers’ preferences by applying a range of
contextual relevance filters that take into consideration the time
of day, day of week and location.
Rovi will showcase the combined Nuance and Rovi search and
discovery offering, along with other discovery and monetization
solutions during IBC 2015 in Stand G01, Hall 14. Learn more about
Rovi and the company’s IBC show announcements at
http://www.rovicorp.com/ibc2015.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) 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.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment
experience. The company’s pioneering guides, metadata and
recommendations continue to drive program search and navigation on
millions of devices across the globe. With a new generation of
cloud-based discovery capabilities and emerging solutions for
interactive advertising and audience analytics, Rovi is enabling
premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive consumer
satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience across
multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover
more about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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