“Put Microsoft and Nuance together and it allows Microsoft to go after the exploding healthcare market, which is on fire right now as it’s modernising, adopting digital engagement and moving to the cloud,” said Forrester analyst Kate Leggett.
Nuance’s products include clinical speech recognition software offerings such as Dragon Ambient eXperience, Dragon Medical One and PowerScribe, all of which are built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The companies said Nuance products are used by more than 55 per cent of physicians and 75 per cent of radiologists in the US, and by 77 per cent of US hospitals.“AI is technology’s most important priority, and health care is its most urgent application,” Mr Nadella said.Microsoft also has its own digital voice assistant, Cortana, but its use has been limited compared to similar consumer-oriented features from Amazon, Google and Apple.
Nuance has sought to refine its voice recognition technology beyond consumer use to better understand the complexities of medical language.
Cause they don't own enough.....
Break them up. They are an anti-competitive oligarchy.
Heh.. awesome.