微軟公司收購語音辨識AI公司Nuance

微軟公司正式宣佈以197億美元的價格買下語音辨識AI公司Nuance。微軟表示，這次交易目的是為了增加在醫療市場的佔有率，並使潛在市場大小一舉擴大至5,000億美元。

Nuance是AI及雲端技術醫療應用的領導企業，擁有超過1萬名醫療領域客戶，包括各大醫療機構及研究單位，超過77%美國醫院都使用Nuance的解決方案，且2020財年（截至2020年9月）其營收也較前一年同期成長37%。

這好大可能是繼2016年12月微軟公司收購領英(網上職業介紹及履歷表求職)後又一成功的收購項目。

Microsoft Company declared that she will use $19.7 billion US dollars to acquire Nuance, an AI company. This transaction can increase market share of Microsoft in healthcare sector and the potential market can extent to $500 billion US dollars.

Nuance is an AI and cloud healthcare technology applications company, she has more than 10 thousand customers includes hospitals and research centers. Over 77% U.S. hospitals uses Nuance healthcare solutions,her revenue income (up to Sep 2020) grows 37% than previous period.

It is highly possible that this deal is another successful transaction after Microsoft took over Linkedln in Dec 2016.