Nuance Voice Control Available on Palm Centro Smart Device
Wednesday October 24, 8:00 am ET
Voice Commands Make New Device's Extensive Features Easier to Access and Operate
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN - News) today announced that a 30-day free trial of Nuance® Voice Control, a mobile search and messaging service powered by speech technology, is pre-loaded on the recently launched Palm® Centro™ smart device from Sprint, the smallest and lightest Palm smartphone to date. With the Nuance Voice Control service, Centro users can easily dictate and send email or text messages, create calendar entries, dial a contact, and search the Web for business listings, movie times, sport scores and more.1
The Nuance Voice Control service enhances Palm’s new device with a speech-based user interface. Centro users have the unique and powerful ability to control their Centro smartphone with their voice instead of using the keyboard or the stylus. Users simply press one button on the device and speak their request. In this way, Nuance Voice Control delivers single-button access to Web content and messaging, among other features, helping Centro users unlock the full potential of the device’s Web and data capabilities.
“Centro offers the power of a smartphone at the price of a standard 12-key cell phone, bringing Palm simplicity, organization and advanced features to a broader audience – ideal for anyone who’s ready to cross over from a standard cell phone to a smartphone,” said Mike Rank, director of developer relations for Palm, Inc. “Nuance Voice Control is particularly valuable for Centro customers utilizing the device’s email, text and instant messaging capabilities because it enhances our full QWERTY keyboard for text entry with the ability to simply dictate and send messages.”
“Centro has the opportunity to attract a broad new customer base to the smartphone category,” said Michael Thompson, vice president and general manager, mobile search and communications, Nuance. “We believe our pre-loaded presence on this device gives Nuance the opportunity to spread Nuance Voice Control adoption beyond our traditional business user audience to a younger market that is hungry for new and easier ways to surf the mobile Web and communicate with peers.”
For more information about Nuance Voice Control, including a demo of available functionality, please visit www.nuance.com/voicecontrol. More information about Palm, Inc. and the Centro smartphone is available at www.palm.com. |
