Nuance Communications Inc. is a U.S.-based software company focused on speech recognition, conversational artificial intelligence, and natural language understanding. Its technologies are used to capture, transcribe, and analyze voice and text interactions across clinical, customer service, and enterprise workflows.
Nuance develops the Dragon family of speech recognition products, ambient clinical documentation solutions (such as Dragon Medical One and DAX), radiology reporting tools (including PowerScribe), voice biometrics, interactive voice response, and automotive voice assistant platforms. The company serves healthcare systems and clinicians, contact centers, financial services, telecommunications, and automotive manufacturers.
Founded in the 1990s and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Nuance was acquired by Microsoft in 2022 and operates as a Microsoft company.