| Business Summary | | Nuance
Communications
develops,
markets
and
supports
a
voice
interface
software
platform
that
makes
the
information
and
services
of
enterprises,
telecommunications
networks
and
the
Internet
accessible
from
any
telephone.
The
Company's
software
platform
consists
of
software
servers
that
run
on
industry-standard
hardware
and
perform
speech
recognition,
natural
language
understanding,
text-to-speech
synthesis
and
voice
authentication.
Speech
recognition
is
used
to
recognize
what
a
person
says,
natural
language
understanding
derives
the
meaning
of
what
is
said,
text-to-speech
synthesis
converts
text,
for
example,
from
a
database,
an
e-mail,
a
Web
page
or
another
document,
into
speech,
and
voice
authentication
verifies
the
identity
of
a
speaker
based
on
the
unique
qualities
of
that
speaker's
voice.
The
Company
also
offers
a
range
of
consulting,
support
and
education
services. | More
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Business Description |
| Financial Summary | | Nuance
Communications
develops,
markets
and
supports
a
voice
interface
software
platform
that
makes
the
information
and
services
of
enterprises,
telecommunications
networks
and
the
Internet
accessible
from
any
telephone.
For
the
six
months
ended
6/30/01,
total
revenue
rose
5%
to
$21
million.
Net
loss
totaled
$81.8
million,
up
from
$12.9
million.
Results
reflect
growth
in
the
professional
services
headcount,
offset
by
$55
million
in
restructuring
and
impairment
costs. | More
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Developments |
| | | | FY2000
Compensation | | Pay | Exer | |
| Yogen Dalal, Ph.D., 50 Chairman | -- | -- | Ronald Croen, 46 Pres,
CEO, Director | $373K | $2.1M | Graham Smith, 41 CFO,
VP | 277K | 1.6M | Paul Scott, 47 Sr.
VP of Worldwide Sales | 324K | -- | Matthew Lennig, Ph.D., 49 Sr.
VP- Engineering | 326K | 1.1M | Dollar
amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year. |
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from
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List, Bios,
Compensation,
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