Cerence Inc

NASDAQ:CRNC

Cerence, Inc. builds automotive cognitive assistance solutions to power natural and intuitive interactions between automobiles, drivers and passengers, and the broader digital world. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and currently employs 1,700 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2019-09-16. The firm's platform utilizes speech recognition, natural language understanding, speech signal enhancement, text-to-speech, and acoustic modeling technology to provide a conversational AI-based solution. The firm's platform is a fully customizable and designed to support its customers in creating their own ecosystem in the automobile and transforming the vehicle into a hub for numerous connected devices and services. Virtual assistants built with its software platform can address user requests across a variety of categories, such as navigation, control, media, communication and tools. Its software platform consists of edge computing and cloud-connected software components and a software framework linking these components together under a common programming interface.