Nuance powers TomTom devices

Nuance Communications Inc. of Burlington said today that its speech technology has been selected to help power some navigation devices marketed by TomTom, a navigation solutions provider with roots in Amsterdam and offices in Concord.

Nuance, a provider of speech and imaging solutions, said its voice-powered input feature will make new versions in TomTom's Go family of navigation devices easier to operate.

According to Nuance, drivers can simply speak the address they want to drive to instead of having to type out a destination on a device's touch-screen keypad.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)