Nuance Communications, a leading provider of speech solutions, unveiled a ground-breaking prototype for voice search capabilities shown on the Apple iPhone. The newly designed application introduces a new, more compelling consumer and search experience.

Nuance Communications, a provider of speech and imaging solutions, announced that Nuance Voice Control, a speech-based mobile search and messaging service, is now available in French. Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest wireless voice and data communications service provider, will be the first to offer Nuance Voice Control in French beginning in April 2008.

Nuance Communications that its speech recognition solutions are now available in the Tempo E2000, a new 2GB music-enabled mobile phone from Kyocera Wireless that also features video on demand (VOD) as well as a 1.3 megapixel camera. With Nuance speech recognition technology, users are able to dictate commands such as name and number dialing, by pressing a single button. There are also command and control features for the handset such as checking status of the battery level, finding contacts and more.

At the Mobile World Congress Nuance announced a special trial edition of T9 Nav, a mobile discovery solution that provides a fast way to access all features, applications and content on a mobile device in just a few key presses. T9 Nav is simple and powerful mobile discovery software that significantly improves the mobile user experience by allowing users to bypass button-driven menu systems which often require complex combinations of key presses, offering a fast, direct and repeatable way to access features and content on the phone. It intelligently adapts to user behaviour over time, reordering and predicting frequently searched terms using the industry leading, patented algorithms from XT9/T9 software.