Google has acquired Bristish speech synthesis company Phonetic Arts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Mike Cohen, Manager, Speech Technology at Google, said, “There’s a particular focus right now in the U.K. on technology and innovation, and we’re delighted to be deepening our investment in the country with this acquisition. We already have a strong engineering center in London and look forward to welcoming Phonetic Arts to the team. We are excited about their technology, and while we don’t have plans to share yet, we’re confident that together we’ll move a little faster towards that Star Trek future.”
Phoentic Arts was founded Paul Taylor (CEO), Anthony Tomlinson (Vice President, Voice Production) and Ian Hodson (Vice President, Engineering) in 2006. All three were avid gamers and all three believed that games could only get better by the inclusion of dynamic speech. The 14 staff are all based in Cambridge.In 2000, Taylor co-founded Rhetorical Systems and sold to, speech recognition giant Nuance, in 2004.
UK, Cambridge & USA, Mountain View, CA
Related articles:
- Google acquires Widevine Posted on December 7, 2010
- Groupon rejects Google’s $6 billion offer Posted on December 7, 2010
- Has Google bought Groupon? Posted by Fusion DigiNet on November 30, 2010
- Google acquires Quiksee Posted on September 15, 2010
- Google acquires SocialDeck September 1, 2010
- Google in the final stages of acquiring Like.com Posted on August 19, 2010
- Google acquires social technology company Slide Posted on August 13, 2010
- Google to buy ITA Software for $700 million Posted on July 2, 2010
- Google to make cash offer to acquire Global IP Solutions Posted on May 10, 2010
- Google acquires Labpixies Posted on April 30, 2010
- Online photo editor Picnik Acquired by Google Posted on March 9, 2010
- Google has acquired DocVerse Posted on March 6, 2010
- Social search engine Aardvark has been acquired by Google Posted on February 14, 2010
- Google is acquiring AppJet, the small startup that builds the popular collaboration tool EtherPad Posted on December 4, 2009
Fusion Corporate Partners 
Leave a Reply