Nuance CEO Paul Ricci: The Full D11 Interview (Video)

Nuance CEO Paul Ricci talks about speech recognition’s journey from the call center to personal assistant, and what’s next for natural language processing.

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Chairman & CEO
Nuance Communications

Paul Ricci has taken Nuance from an imaging software company with a vision for voice to a multibillion-dollar company that is the world’s most prolific provider and innovator of intuitive voice technologies and intelligent systems. Voice is one of the most important parts of the entire mobile ecosystem, and Nuance powers Apple’s Siri (allegedly) and also owns Dragon NaturallySpeaking, making it a dominant force in the efforts to make devices interact with us all more effortlessly and hands-free. Ricci spent nearly a decade at Xerox Corporation, where he served as president of the desktop system division and as a corporate vice president.

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Nuance CEO Paul Ricci: The Full D11 Interview (Video)

Nuance CEO Paul Ricci talks about speech recognition’s journey from the call center to personal assistant, and what’s next for natural language processing.
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