Nuance Communications shares are trading sharply higher Monday morning on speculation that the speech recognition technology company could be an acquisition target for Apple.

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In addition to Blinkx, Autonomy counts the U.S. and U.K. governments as customers of its speech-recognition technology.

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First, Google's speech-recognition technology lets it scan videos for cues such as laughter.

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The overall goal of Honda's efforts is to generally advance intelligent speech and sound recognition technology.

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But someday soon, I think, thanks to the increasing miniaturization of semiconductor devices, wireless and better software interfaces like speech recognition, our technology is going to start disappearing, embedding into walls and dashboards and sheets of paper.

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One example is speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.

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Google also used the technology to cut the error rate on speech recognition in its latest Android mobile software.

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Nina combines Nuance speech recognition, Text-to-Speech (TTS), voice biometrics, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology hosted in the cloud to deliver an interactive user experience that not only understands what is said, but also can identify who is saying it.

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By 2020, technology will have made such rapid progress, that speech recognition by a computer will exceed that of a human.

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Much of the critical technology is provided by Nuance Communications, a leader in speech recognition.

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