by Angela Guess

According to a new press release, “Nuance Communications and Greenwave Systems today announced that Greenwave has integrated the Nuance Mix voice and AI-powered natural language understanding (NLU) technologies as part of its award-winning AXON Platform® for managed services. Working together, Nuance and Greenwave will afford networking and communications service providers the ability to create new conversational Internet of Things (IoT) services, devices and experiences connected to disparate technologies and systems in enterprises, industrial settings and in the smart home. The union brings deeply integrated voice capabilities to the IoT. According to IDC, 58 percent of organizations worldwide see the IoT as strategic to their business, and 24 percent see IoT as transformational. Additionally, smart home penetration is anticipated to reach 60.7 percent of homes in the U.S. by 2021. Such conditions create significant opportunity for reimagining both business and personal technology interfaces.”

The release goes on, “Greenwave’s AXON Platform already powers millions of advanced networks; it is trusted by leading telecom, cable and utilities service providers to power their managed services for audio, video, broadband and energy management systems. Integrating Nuance’s AI-powered NLU and voice capabilities with Greenwave’s AXON Platform gives service providers the ability to offer seamless connectivity between IoT devices and services that not only lets “things” and services talk to each other, but also lets people converse with their apps, services and devices. Integrated solutions made incredibly intelligent through data-driven AI let providers maximize a frictionless experience between humans and their technology. Within the smart home or the enterprise, this collaboration between Greenwave and Nuance will deliver bespoke virtual personal assistants that are conversational, intelligent and easily integrated into any IoT environment.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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