Burlington based Nuance is making news for the fourth time this week following Apple acquisition rumors, impressive Q2 financial results, and a $158M acquisition of Equitrac.

This time the news is related to the demand for voice-enabled mobile solutions, and the success of a mobile developer program Nuance launched in relation to this earlier this year. In just three months since the company announced the program, it has not only attracted over 2500 developers, it has enabled dozens of iOS and Android mobile apps to launch — some in under 30 days.

The company launched the Nuance Mobile Developer Program (NMDP) as part of an effort to attract developers to their Dragon Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK features the company’s award winning Dragon speech recognition capabilities, enabling developers to fully voice-enable any app quickly (as opposed to trying to develop those capabilities in house or through otherwise). It includes functions like voice recognition and speech to text services for a broad range of languages.

Boston’s virtual assistant and alarm clock, getZazu, is one example of an area company leveraging Nuance’s voice technology. Founder Punit Shah told us that on the technology front, the company’s voice tech is by far the best on the market. Other popular apps like Siri (recently acquired by Apple), Price Check by Amazon, Ask for iPhone, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, SpeechTrans, and Aisle411 apps also leverage Nuance’s voice technology.

As for the apps that have launched with thanks to the Mobile Developer Program, Nuance offered three examples:

• Avantar’s AirYell app for iPhone and iPad lets users simply speak to find businesses, services and people located near them. AirYell uses iPhone’s geolocation capabilities to recognize where consumers are, but also deliver results based on what’s nearest to them. Results allow users to tap on the map to display driving directions, and tap on the phone number to make the call.

• The iTranslate app from Sonico takes advantage of Dragon’s renowned voice recognition capabilities to let users speak words or phases into their iPhone, which are then translated in the language of choice in just seconds – making it a must-have travel application. And with the Dragon Mobile SDK’s broad language support, iTranslate provides translations for English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

• Taskmind from Catalyst leverages the power of Dragon to enable mobile organization and productivity via its high performance team-work tool that lets users to speak notes, ideas or simple thoughts anywhere and anytime into their iPhone – no more fumbling for a pen and paper! All spoken notes are transcribed and stored in one central online task tool that allows users to then reference and share notes with friends or colleagues.

“The tremendous global response to the Nuance Mobile Developer Program showcases the intense demand for voice interfaces,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Nuance Mobile. “A large part of that success is the program’s design that lets developers bring their voice-enabled apps to market quickly and easily across iOS, Android and others.”

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