Comments on: Nuance set to acquire Vlingo for Siri-fighting combo breaker http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/#comment-165646 Anonymous Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:44:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=203546#comment-165646 some say siri is non-sense.
so nuance is dumb for doing this (if the believe those who said siri is non-sense).

]]> By: Maria Fe Camaya O'Neill http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/#comment-165548 Maria Fe Camaya O'Neill Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=203546#comment-165548 Voice will get better and better as time go’s on. Like with browsers there will be many choices to choose from but the big players in this feild will likely be Apple/siri, Google voice and Microsofts talk to me. Independents like this effort will find it difficult to compete and if they do manage a better alternative then they will most likely be bought out by one of these guys.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/#comment-165507 Anonymous Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:41:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=203546#comment-165507 Really don’t like this. V lingo is the default voice input system on the GS2. Samsung have integrated it heavily into their phones and it is the biggest non google siri competitor. Having a company owned by apple, buying it is not in anyone interest. 

Sounds like apple is trying to buy the competitions alternative

]]> By: Alex http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/#comment-165489 Alex Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:13:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=203546#comment-165489 C-c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker!!

Sorry, couldn’t help it…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/#comment-165484 Anonymous Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:54:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=203546#comment-165484 I feel nuance is too late to the party. The advantage that Apple and Google have is an absolute and near absolute control of value chain respectively.

In Apples case they can outright deny a competing offering ( Vlingo though is currently available on Apple’s App store and nuance currently powers Siri itself ) from Nuance. They probably won’t but would do what Google will do on Android. In Googles case it’s own offering can easily overwhelm Nuances+Vlingos offering due to its immense resources and deep OS integration. Google can make their offering default too ( like what Microsoft did with browsers untill lately). Nuance+Vlingo cannot.

PS: I am sure many Fandroids never knew that Vlingo was available on the Apple app store for a long time now ( even before Siri was launched on 4s)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/nuance-set-to-acquire-vlingo-for-siri-fighting-combo-breaker-20203546/#comment-165482 Anonymous Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:48:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=203546#comment-165482 You can bet that Vlingo won’t be free anymore. At any rate, Google will certainly have it’s own Siri that will be embedded in the OS sometime in the future which Nuance can’t fully achieve. Perhaps Google should buy Nuance…

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