Apple isn’t taking Cortana’s challenge lying down

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_GUZj8psQA6u_VHXvgvJng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/siri-siri.jpeg (http://news.yahoo.com/apple-isn-t-taking-cortana-challenge-lying-down-003033736.html)Microsoft finally got around to releasing its rival to Siri and Google Now this week and early impressions have been pretty strong. However, TechCrunch reports that Apple isn’t taking Cortana’s challenge lying down and has acquired speech recognition technology company Novauris Technologies to help make Siri better than ever. TechCrunch notes that while “Novauris may not have been a household name… its founders were internationally known speech researchers, and key members while at Dragon Systems, a company known for products like ‘DragonDictate’ and ‘Dragon NaturallySpeaking.’” This connection with Nuance and its Dragon NaturallySpeaking software-isn’t at all surprising since Apple used Nuance’s-technology to power Siri back when it launched-in 2011. Just what the former Novauris team are doing to make Siri



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