Nuance Communications, Inc. offers speech-based solutions for businesses and consumers worldwide. It primarily delivers a portfolio of speech-enabled customer care solutions that enhance customer communications and automate customer services and business processes in information and process-intensive vertical markets, such as telecommunications, financial services, travel and entertainment, and government. The company also offers mobile speech solutions, which add voice control capabilities to mobile devices and services, allowing people to use spoken words or commands to dial a mobile phone, enter destination information into an automotive navigation system, dictate a text message, or have emails and screen information read aloud. Nuance Communications’ mobile solutions have applications in various products offered by mobile device and automotive manufacturers. In addition, the company provides dictation and transcription solutions and services that enhance the way patient data is captured, processed, and used, as well as automate the input and management of medical information used by hospitals in the United States. Further, the company offers PDF and document solutions that reduce the time and cost associated with creating, using, and sharing documents for professionals in various enterprises. It markets and distributes its products indirectly through a network of resellers, including system integrators, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, hardware vendors, telecommunications carriers, and distributors, as well as directly through its sales force and an e-commerce Web site. Nuance Communications was founded in 1992. It was formerly known as Visioneer, Inc. and changed its name to ScanSoft, Inc. in 1999 and then to Nuance Communications, Inc. in 2005. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.