Nuance Communications announced that Avaya has selected speech solutions from Nuance to enhance the employee productivity and collaboration options of its unified communications offering. As part of the agreement, Nuance speech recognition will ship as a standard component of Avaya Modular Messaging 4.0, with the inclusion of Avaya one-X Speech. Avaya one-X Speech is a 'hands-free' user interface enabling users to access, interact with and manage email and voice mail, tasks and calendaring, and calling and conferencing capabilities - all via speech commands from any telephone.