Nuance’s Dragon TV Powers Orange TV Mobile App in France
September 08 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Orange becomes the first IPTV provider in France to offer all
TV subscribers a complete voice experience for search and TV
control
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that
its Dragon TV voice technology is powering the Orange France Orange
TV experience with its mobile app for Android and iOS, delivering
the first voice-enabled trans-service IPTV experience in France.
Orange TV customers will have the ability to find shows, movies,
and other content by speaking into the app on their smartphone or
tablet – greatly enhancing usability and content
discoverability.
Orange TV’s new voice interface makes it incredibly fast and
simple for subscribers to find what they’re looking for, whether
its live, On Demand or recorded – all through Orange TV’s mobile
app that lets users speak, search and discover content on the
set-top box, as well as content accessible from the mobile app
itself. Rather than keying in the names of shows letter by letter,
people can simply say “Watch Game of Thrones,” or “Switch to “True
Detectives.” Even more gratifying is the ability to quickly search
and discover movie and show titles by genre – even as specific as
“Buy a comedy from the nineties with Gérard Depardieu in HD.”
Subscribers can even record and navigate the program guide by
voice.
“The connected and digital home should make life simpler, not
more complex. In pursuit of a powerful and yet intuitive experience
for our subscribers, we’ve integrated Dragon TV to deliver an
incredibly human way to find and access content. It completely
changes the way our subscribers engage Orange TV and marks a first
in France for a truly unique digital TV experience,” said Christian
Bombrun, Vice President Marketing Entertainment and Digital
Services, Orange France.
Nuance’s Dragon TV leverages advances in deep learning and
natural language understanding to create a conversational interface
for consumers. Further, Dragon TV’s platform is optimized for the
digital TV ecosystem, with the ability to recognize the endless
names of actors, shows and movies in both French and English – and
many of the commands that include both languages. For example,
people can say, “Je veux voir Game of Thrones.”
“Voice provides service operators and manufacturers an
opportunity to transform the traditional TV interface and open
doors for subscribers to explore new movies, shows, and other
content recommendations otherwise buried in cumbersome On Demand
and program guides,” said Kenn Harper, vice president and general
manager, Devices and Ecosystem, Nuance Mobile. “Seamless voice
access to TV content drives more value for both the operator and
consumer. Consumers get a new modern interface that in turn
helps drive better monetization for the operator.”
Dragon TV is also designed to give service operators and
manufacturers the ability to easily integrate and deliver a
seamless user experience for smart and connected TVs that leverage
mobile applications as a digital remote. Nuance’s embedded and
cloud-based technologies can be deeply integrated right on a
remote, TV or set top box – fully customizable across more than 40
languages, and is extensible across the Internet of Things
ecosystem for a fully voice-enabled connected home experience.
Nuance’s Dragon TV powers the most popular global connected TV
and content experiences in the world. To learn more visit
www.nuance.com.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice and
language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.
Its technologies, applications and services make the user
experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact
with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and
thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications.
For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
Nuance, Dragon and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States of America and/or other countries. All other
company names or product names may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.
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