Well-known voice technology company Nuance Communications recently announced a new voice platform - `Nina' - which will boast a Siri-like voice-control interface, and will essentially bring about an improvement in customer-services apps on mobile devices.

The analysts though doubt the validity of the various speculations, Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN), the company, which makes software that converts speech into text, has been the subject of takeover rumors.

The company which is seen to hold up well in recession, swung to a fiscal second-quarter loss as the speech-software maker incurred higher acquisition and restructuring costs.

The company's adjusted results beat analyst expectations, however.