Tegic Communications, Inc. was a
predictive text
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company based in
Seattle, Washington
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,
United States
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, founded on November 18, 1996. It was acquired by
AOL
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on December 3, 1999, and subsequently, on August 24, 2007, acquired by
Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications, Inc. is an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, that markets speech recognition and artificial intelligence software.
Nuance merged with its comp ...
, whereafter it ceased to exist as a separate company.
Seattle office of Tegic / Nuance expected to remain
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Tegic developed T9, the original predictive text
Predictive text is an input technology used where one key or button represents many letters, such as on the physical numeric keypads of mobile phones and in accessibility technologies. Each key press results in a ''prediction'' rather than r ...
software
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that is used for most mobile phone
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s for text entry.
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Defunct software companies of the United States
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