Nuance, a name best known for their voice recognition software, like Dragon Naturally Speaking and OmniPage OCR software have been rumoured to have bought Swype, the recent popular text input tool that works by sliding one's finger between characters. Now, Nuance themselves have a similar product called FlexT9 for Android devices. They also have a host of other text prediction software, namely T9, which is used on phones the world across. Swype, which has gained popularity and is available for free as a beta on Android devices has been providing competition to Nuance. By buying Swype, Nuance has eliminated any competition. Nuance’s FlexT9 for Android also supports voice recognition and the traditional character recognition.
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