which American multinational computer software XT9 now part of
Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States on the outskirts of Boston, that provides speech and imaging applications. Current business products focus on server and embedded speech recognition, telephone call steering systems, automated telephone directory services, medical transcription software and systems, optical character recognition software, and desktop imaging software. The company also maintains a small division which does software and system development for military and government agencies.
ELSA Technology Elsa Technology is a computer hardware company. It was founded in 1980 as ELSA Technology AG as a German company manufacturing video cards and other peripherals for Personal Computers. In 2002, the German company filed for bankruptcy while its Taiwanese subsidiary was founded in 2003 as ELSA Technology Inc. Other companies founded when the original ELSA Technology went into bankruptcy were devolo and Lancom Systems GmbH. The ELSA name also continues under the ELSA Japan Inc., which had been founded as a joint venture in 1997, and runs independently since 2002.