Nuance CEO’s Curious Statements About Televisions

Nuance CEO Paul Ricci, in their Q4 earnings conference call:

I think you put your finger on what we consider to be the next big horizon and that is other areas of consumer electronics, particularly entertainment. We definitely sense that in the last six months or so, awareness of voice as part of the mobile experience has accelerated. There is a lot of interest right now among consumer electronics manufacturers in extending some aspects of the mobile experience into the living room.

During Nuance’s earnings conference call last week, CEO Paul Ricci had a few interesting things to say about the future of their voice recognition technology, which powers Siri on the iPhone 4S. He specifically mentioned TVs twice, and then talked about things more broadly as bringing “the mobile experience into the living room.”

My doubts about a voice-powered TV made by Apple are becoming harder and harder to justify.