Tegic Communications, Inc. was a
predictive text
Predictive text is an input technology used where one key or button represents many letters, such as on the Telephone keypad, numeric keypads of mobile phones and in accessibility technologies. Each key press results in a ''prediction'' rather ...
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 compe ...
, 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 Telephone keypad, numeric keypads of mobile phones and in accessibility technologies. Each key press results in a ''prediction'' rather ...
software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
that is used for most mobile phone
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s for text entry.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
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