Question: which American multinational computer software XT9 now part of
Context: Nuance Communications is an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States on the outskirts of Boston, that provides speech and imaging applications.  Current business products focus on server and embedded speech recognition, telephone call steering systems, automated telephone directory services, medical transcription software and systems, optical character recognition software, and desktop imaging software.  The company also maintains a small division which does software and system development for military and government agencies. Help Desk was a webcomic by Christopher B. Wright which debuted on March 31, 1996, making it one of the older webcomics on the Internet.  The comic was a satirical and cynical view of computer software companies and operating systems in general, and of the antics of Microsoft, Apple Computer, OS/2, and Linux in particular, however the first 2 comics were on the subject of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.  This was done through the employees of Ubersoft, a fictional computer software company that markets a number of software products, including a computer operating system called Nifty Doorways.  The comic draws heavily from real-life events in the computer software industry and lampoons those events through its cast of characters.  It features a daily slogan on the title bar.  Examples are "We code what angels fear and dread", "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt", "Our lawyers are better", "It's not a bug... It's just really really bad", "Standing on the necks of giants", "Four out of five dentists reboot", and "We put the pain in painstaking". Yseop (pronounced "Easy-Op") is a privately held multinational computer software company with offices in New York, London, Lyon, Sydney, Dallas and Paris.  The company offers two self-service natural language generation products, Compose" and a plug and play product called "Yseop Savvy".  Yseop Compose automates the writing or written reports in financial services, business intelligence, marketing and more.  It writes in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese.  Savvy is a plug in for Microsoft Excel and Qlik Sense (with more integrations coming according to the website) that adds narrative to dashboards.  Yseop Savvy is being offered as a free trial. CD-adapco (Computational Dynamics-Analysis & Design Application Company Ltd) is a multinational computer software company that authors and distributes applications used for computer-aided engineering, best known for its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) products. Computer software, or simply software, is a part of a computer system that consists of data or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built.  In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data.  Computer software includes computer programs, libraries and related non-executable data, such as online documentation or digital media.  Computer hardware and software require each other and neither can be realistically used on its own. Dell Inc. (stylized as DELL) was a multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas and, along with Dell EMC, is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, one of the largest technology companies in the world with 138,000 employees.  Dell manufactures, sells, repairs, and supports personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, computer software, computer peripherals, high-definition televisions, cameras, printers, and electronics built by other manufacturers.  The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and e-commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. SpinVox was a start-up company that is now a subsidiary of global speech technology company Nuance Communications, an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States on the outskirts of Boston, that provides speech and imaging applications.  Initially, SpinVox provided voice-to-text conversion services for carrier markets, including wireless, fixed, VoIP and cable, as well as for unified communications, enterprise and Web 2.0 environments.  This service was ostensibly provided through an automated computer system, with human intervention where needed.  However, there were accusations that the system operated almost exclusively through the use of call-center workers in South Africa and the Philippines. Adobe Systems Incorporated ( ) is an American multinational computer software company.  The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.  Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software development.  It is best known for Photoshop, an image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud. SofTech, Inc. (OTCQB: SOFT ) is a multinational computer software company with offices in the United States, Italy, Germany and France with a worldwide annual revenue of US$ $12.1 million.  Headquartered in Lowell, Ma.  SofTech has provided Product Lifecycle Management, Product Data Management, and CAD CAM solutions. SofTech was founded by Douglas T. Ross in 1969 as one of the earliest software/consulting companies in the US. XT9 is a text predicting and correcting system for mobile devices with full keyboards rather than the 3x4 keypad on old phones.  It was originally developed by Tegic Communications, now part of Nuance Communications.  It was created for devices with styluses, but is now used for touch screen devices too.  It is a successor to T9, a popular predictive text algorithm for mobile phones with only numeric pads.
Answer: Nuance Communications