The combined organisation boasts a broad range of products and solutions, spanning Nuance’s core voice-activation systems and ScanSoft’s speech recognition products, such as Dragon Dictate, which are deployed in a number of law firms.

Chuck Berger, formerly chief executive and president of Nuance, now a director at ScanSoft, said: “The combining of our resources, talents and capabilities, as a result of this merger, puts us in an excellent position to amplify these successes as well as to drive the industry to new heights.”