Dictaphone Healthcare Bus to Visit 15 NHS Trusts Across the UK

Medical Professionals invited to experience the latest Dictaphone speech-based Workflow Solutions and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical on high profile Tour

LONDON, United Kingdom – 18 September 2007 – Dictaphone Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, has today announced that it will be conducting a promotional tour of the UK, visiting NHS Trusts to demonstrate its range of speech-based workflow solutions that have been developed for hospitals and medical professionals. These include Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, Dictaphone PowerScribe, and Dictaphone Enterprise Express. The Dictaphone Healthcare Bus starts in the South West at The Royal Cornwall NHS Trust, on 7th October and concludes in the South East in Maidstone Hospital, Kent on 26th October.

The Dictaphone Healthcare Bus will promote and demonstrate the many benefits of using Dictaphone’s healthcare solutions, including how speech recognition, dictation, and workflow systems simplify and enhance the production and management of electronic patient documentation. Today, more than 4,000 hospitals and over 400,000 healthcare providers, use Dragon NaturallySpeaking – the world’s best-selling speech recognition software - and Dictaphone Workflow Solutions. These solutions are helping to automate routine processes and dramatically increase patient report turn-around times, ultimately leading to improved patient care.

Visitors to the Dictaphone Healthcare Bus will be able to meet with specialists in clinical dictation, experience the technology themselves, and discuss with Dictaphone the solutions that are most relevant for their Trust’s requirements. Visitors will also gain insight into the benefits and productivity gains that other trusts have enjoyed since deploying Dictaphone workflow solutions.

Commenting on the tour, Simon Howard, Sales Director, NHS Dictation Solutions, said: “Dictaphone and Dragon are two of the most established and trusted brands in dictation technology for healthcare. Our speech based workflow offerings are currently being deployed by NHS Trusts, in order to revolutionise the productivity of patient administration.

The most powerful endorsement of the technology is to see it in action, which is why Dictaphone has embarked on this UK-wide tour. Visitors to the Healthcare Bus will be able to appreciate the real advances that speech recognition software developed for clinical dictation has made, and experience its performance for themselves.”

Details of the bus tour can be found on the Nuance UK website: www.nuance.co.uk/naturallyspeaking/bus/. All NHS employees visiting this site can register their plans to attend the Tour which will give them the opportunity to win a copy of the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical software.

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division

Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division provides comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used changing the way people process and work with medical information. Through the integration of speech recognition and natural language processing within existing health information management workflow, Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organizations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability of their medical documentation. For more information, please visit Nuance.com/Dictaphone.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.co.uk.

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