Cerence Sues Microsoft Over Text-to-Speech Software Rights (1)

Microsoft Corp. and its subsidiary Nuance Communications Inc. broke the terms of a licensing agreement for a text-to-speech software owned by Cerence Inc., a federal lawsuit said.

Cerence was spun off from Nuance in 2019 and acquired intellectual property rights to the text-to-speech technology, then inked a five-year licensing deal with Nuance, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. The terms of the deal said Nuance and Cerence required each others’ permission to license the software, and once the agreement expired in 2024, Nuance would lose its licensing rights.

After Microsoft ...