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Nuance Contest Asks Dragon NaturallySpeaking Users: "What Are You Talking About?"

Online Contest Invites Dragon NaturallySpeaking User Community to Share Stories; All Entrants to receive a 20% discount on all Nuance products available in the online shop, and a Dragon Fingerpuppet.

London, UK – 26 March 2007 – Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today introduced a contest for Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® users to share their unique experience using the world’s most popular speech recognition solution. People are invited to submit their stories via the Nuance Web site between March 26 and April 30, 2007. All entrants will receive a 20% discount on all Nuance products available in the online shop, and a Dragon Fingerpuppet.

The new contest – dubbed "What Are You Talking About?" – is open to users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking who are interested in sharing their stories. Entries can be submitted in one of three categories, and a panel of judges will select the best story in each category. The best stories will be announced in May 2007.

Entries can be submitted in one of three categories:

  • Most Creative Use
    Are you using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in a unique or innovative way? Are you a novelist, poet, or blogger that has reignited your creative spark using Dragon? Are you a computer programmer that uses Dragon to dictate lines of code? Are you a student that uses Dragon to create reports and other school projects?
  • Greatest Productivity Gain
    Have you saved a significant amount of time as a result of using Dragon NaturallySpeaking? Has your office adopted Dragon to save precious time creating meeting notes, presentations or reports? Are you a busy lawyer that uses Dragon to make transcribing your notes a snap?
  • Greatest Personal Impact
    Has Dragon NaturallySpeaking changed your life? Has Dragon made it possible for you to use your computer completely hands-free? Have you used Dragon to heal your repetitive stress injury at work? Have you overcome physical challenges with Dragon’s help?

Since its introduction nearly ten years ago, Dragon NaturallySpeaking has become a regular fixture in businesses and homes around the world, and has a profound impact on those who use it. Millions of people every day rely on Dragon NaturallySpeaking to write novels, poems, and blogs; create a book report; see more patients or clients; create presentations quickly in the office; use the PC hands-free; or chat with friends online. As Dragon’s tenth anniversary draws closer, it’s time for the Dragon community to share their unique success stories.

For more information, including official rules and prize details, and to submit your entry, please visit: http://www.nuance.co.uk/dragonstories/

About Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking today is used by millions of people to transform the way that they use their PCs. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, the latest release of the world’s most popular speech recognition solution, delivers what matters most in speech recognition – failsafe accuracy and extremely high levels of performance without the need for time-consuming voice training. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 converts speech into text at up to 160 words-per-minute, at accuracy levels of up to 99 percent, and allows users to control Microsoft Windows and to create new documents and e-mails, navigate programs, and surf the Web, all by voice.

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