Apple acquires Novauris, a speech recognition pioneer company

Apple continues, without any fuss or fuss, to acquire useful companies. This time the giant from Cupertino bought the company Novauris, which grew out of the British unit known to many Dragon Systems - the company that was at the source of the technology of recognizing human speech.

Novauris was founded in 2002. Top management of the company is represented by Yun Kim, Melvin Hunt and John Bridle, who previously worked for Dragon, Nortel, Marconi, Aurix and SRI. The latter, by the way, helped to be born to the Siri service.

Everyone knows that Apple does not like to advertise the purchase of small companies. Even after the information leaked into the network, and journalists sent dozens of official requests to Apple's press service, the management of the corporation from Cupertino declined to comment on its acquisition. And only the head of Novauris on the phone admitted to reporters that his company really is now part of Apple. In fact, the acquisition of the company took place at the end of 2013, but nobody knew about it until this time.

Novauris has developed a special technology of almost instantaneous human speech recognition - ASR, using huge data files located on remote servers, as well as any useful information on the user's mobile device. This technology was patented, and we can assume that for the first time it will be used in Apple devices.

To date, it is known for sure that Novauris has joined the unit responsible for the development of Siri's voice assistant, and is currently improving its performance. One can only hope that one day Siri will speak Russian.

Based on Techcrunch.com

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