ZTE partners with Nuance to ship Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer on ZTE handsets

Nuance has announced that it has established a strategic global relationship with ZTE to ship Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer on ZTE handsets. As a result of the deal, ZTE devices will feature robust speech capabilities for both command and control, and text-to-speech across its extensive portfolio of mobile phones available from carriers around the world.

Given the global demand for innovative and intuitive mobile speech capabilities across a variety of markets and platforms, including Android and Windows Mobile, ZTE is integrating Nuance VSuite, Nuance’s pervasive speech software already shipping on hundreds of millions of phones. Nuance VSuite enables mobile consumers to speak a variety of commands – ranging from simple dialing, to launching games and other applications like the text messaging client and Web browser. Nuance VSuite coupled with Nuance Vocalizer, which provides text-to-speech functionality for text message readout and command confirmation, gives ZTE consumers an incredibly easy-to-use mobile interface on some of the most innovative mobile phones shipping today.

As a result of this relationship, ZTE is now able to bring sophisticated speech capabilities to both high-end smartphones and lower-end feature phones. And because Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer support more than 40 languages worldwide, including U.S. English, Simplified Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, ZTE can now bring speech to more phones in more markets worldwide.

Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer are a part of Nuance’s broad mobile portfolio that features the industry’s pervasive mobile speech and predictive input solutions that are changing the way consumers interact with their mobile phones to send text messages and email, place calls, and access the mobile Web for information, directions, music and more. Nuance’s mobile solutions ship on more than four billion handsets — a result of its extensive relationships with every major mobile OEM and carriers around the world. For more information about Nuance VSuite, please visit www.nuance.com/vsuite.