Nuance scoops up Spinvox
Voice-to-text-to-human. Or something
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US speech recognition outfit Nuance Communications has bought Spinvox for £64m ($102.5m).
Massachusetts-based Nuance had made a $150m offer for Spinvox, which the British firm was said to be "close to accepting" in mid-December.
Today Nuance confirmed it had bought Spinvox in a $66m cash and $36.5m, or 2.3m shares, stock deal.
Nuance had first approached Spinvox as a potential suitor in September this year. Not long after that the British company began laying off staff at its Marlow headquarters.
Spinvox, in a humiliating climbdown, was forced to admit in the summer that it needed humans in call centres to supplement its technology.
In August one of its backers, John Botts, extended a new loan to the firm through his Tisbury Master Fund.
It's understood that Botts rolled over his loan - which was expected to be paid by mid-December - to next month in order that the Nuance deal could proceed.
“With SpinVox’s robust infrastructure, language support and operational experience, we will broaden the reach and capabilities of our platform,” said Nuance voice-to-text services veep John Pollard. ®
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COMMENTS
Bought them for their technology
I don't think so.
How does Nuace do this?
spin...
a very accurate part of the name - thought they might have had Tony Blair on the board
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