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title: "Nuance Communications: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Nuance Communications, Inc. was an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, that markets speech recognition and artificial intelligence software."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-nuance-communications
type: Organization
wikidata: Q1137289
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuance_Communications
website: http://www.nuance.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Nuance Communications

> Nuance Communications, Inc. was an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, that markets speech recognition and artificial intelligence software.

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## Facts

- Category: Speech and language
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1992-01-01
- Headquarters: Burlington
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: http://www.nuance.com/
- Also known as: Nuance, Nuance Communications (United States), ScanSoft, ScanSoft Inc.
- Industries: software industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/NuanceEnt
- github: https://github.com/nuance-communications

## Key people

- Mark Benjamin, chief executive (American documentary filmmaker)
- Valeria de Paiva (Brazilian mathematician, logician, and computer scientist)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2016-08-25: Form D, USD 85 million sold of a USD 85 million offering, 40 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1002517/000100251716000079/))

## Revenue

- undated: USD 1.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.6 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.4 billion (SEC filing)

## Ownership

Parent: [Microsoft](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-microsoft.md)
Subsidiaries: Nuance Communications (Belgium), Nuance Communications (Canada), Nuance Communications (Austria), Nuance (Italy), Nuance Communications (United Kingdom)

## Products

- software

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Nuance Communications, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-nuance-communications#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137289, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuance_Communications
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001002517

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