Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Helps Make Business a Roaring Success for E-ventory.co.uk

Dramatic Productivity Gains Fuel Business Growth for Innovative UK-based Inventory Firm

LONDON, UK., 16 November, 2006 – The productivity gains realised by the introduction of voice recognition software, have lead to rapid business growth for an innovative UK-based company, states Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions. It cites how web based inventory company, E-ventory.co.uk, has been using the Mobile version of world’s best selling voice recognition software, Dragon™ NaturallySpeaking®, as part of a bespoke workflow process that has helped facilitate the company’s fast growth.

The best way for a Landlord to protect the condition of their rental property is by having an independent company prepare an inventory of their property and contents and have the same firm check tenants in and out against the report. To address this need, E-ventory.co.uk was founded in 2004 and uses a unique speech technology workflow process to provide the service more efficiently and reliably than competitors. The company’s founder and managing director, Mark Dann, has automated as many processes as possible, and, today, the company’s team of inventory clerks dictate their reports into handheld digital dictation machines. These devices are then linked into the inventory clerks’ laptop, loaded with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dann claims that Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile “will type the equivalent of a 25-page report in five or six minutes” and that the results are “stunning”. Inventory clerks instantly produce fully typed, easy to read, signed reports for customers in around one business day. Dann believes that the considerable increase in productivity provided by speech recognition technology along with the company’s other unique uses of technology - such as ‘real time’ online appointment diaries through its interactive password accessed website and mobile computer technology - has enabled E-ventory.co.uk to capitalise on the rapidly growing private rental market in the UK. By freeing staff from the time consuming task of creating reports using the conventional keyboard and mouse, Dann’s inventory clerks are able to both create and fulfil more appointment requests, thus creating more business opportunities. Since deploying the technology, E-ventory.co.uk has expanded in its founder area of the ‘M3 Corridor’ by around 25% per annum, and recently opened additional offices covering Docklands, Essex and the South Buckinghamshire areas.

Commenting on the E-ventory.co.uk’s use of the software, Angela Capon, Nuance’s UK marketing manager, said: “The use of speech recognition software at E-ventory.co.uk, demonstrates how multi-faceted Dragon NaturallySpeaking is. For years, it has provided easy access to the computer for people with upper body disabilities. In the medical sector, it plays a role in improving patient care by enabling medical professionals to submit their patient reports far more quickly. Legal practitioners also use the technology to reduce the time it takes them to address new cases, while students at universities across the world are using the technology to help them spend more time researching and understanding their subject matter and less time typing up their course work. This latest application demonstrates how the technology has been adopted by the mobile professional workforce”. She added: “Speech remains the most natural interface between people and devices. As the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking requires no training, we anticipate that the technology will continue to be deployed across ever more interesting and broader applications, bringing growth and success to even more businesses.”

Dragon™ NaturallySpeaking® version 9, is the latest release of the world’s best selling speech recognition solution for Microsoft Windows. The new version promises to transform the way people use their PCs, moving accuracy levels up to 99% and becoming the first desktop speech recognition software that truly eliminates the need to train the software to a user’s voice.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows people to perform nearly any computing task by speaking with their PC. This innovative software supports almost all Windows applications and instantly turns the natural voice into text or commands at speeds up to 160 words per minute with accuracy levels that can reach 99 percent – which is faster and more precise than typing. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 delivers significant improvements for existing users, as well as new features designed to expand the use of speech recognition beyond the millions of professionals, enthusiasts and people with disabilities who already use the software.

About E-ventory.co.uk

Eventory is an independent company established by owners with over 22 years experience in the property industry and 7 years in the computer industry.

Having listened to Rental Agents and Landlords concerning the problems they faced with traditional but out dated inventory services in the increasingly busy residential rental market and by using our past experience, we created a unique, easy to use computer aided and web based system.

The Eventory system has dragged the inventory process kicking and screaming out of the 20th Century and placed it happily and firmly into the 21st.

Pricing and Availability

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Standard, Preferred and Professional are available immediately through Nuance’s global network of reseller partners, software retailers and professional sales organisations. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical and Legal solutions, as well as the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK, are available through Nuance’s value added partners worldwide.

For additional information on features, pricing and volume licensing programs, please visit www.nuance.co.uk/NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Standard is £79.99 inc. VAT; Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Preferred is £149.99 inc. VAT; Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Professional is £549 ex VAT.

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