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Samsung Electronics Signs Multi-Year Global Agreement with Nuance Mobile

Samsung Selects Nuance Speech Solutions to Enhance Mobile Device Interface; Nuance VSuite Shipped on More Than 160 Samsung Models Worldwide

LONDON, United Kingdom., March 25, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Samsung Electronics recently signed a multi-year agreement, renewing and expanding its commitment to the full range of Nuance Mobile applications. With Nuance speech solutions for mobile devices, Samsung will simplify and enhance the way its customers use mobile phones, applications and services.

The global license agreement includes VSuite®, Vocalizer®, and VoiceMode® speech-based services and interfaces, which have collectively shipped on more than 160 Samsung models for the last several years. The Nuance products are also shipping on Samsung’s top-selling devices, such as the SCH-U340 and SPH-M300 available from Verizon and Sprint. Text-to-speech solutions, enabling capabilities such as text message read-out, are also included in the new Samsung contract.

VSuite is Nuance’s ubiquitous voice control solution that enables hands-free, one-step access to mobile device features from a simple push of a button and a voice command. Nuance’s speech-to-text solution, VoiceMode, offers users a faster and easier way to input text on mobile devices. Users can enter text in any application by simply pressing a button and dictating words and sentences naturally and continuously.

“Samsung is at the leading edge of innovation and design for mobile devices,” said Michael Thompson, general manager of the mobile search, communications and handsets business unit at Nuance. “Nuance and Samsung share a commitment to continually enhance the overall mobile user experience, offering consumers a simple, safe, and convenient way to interact with mobile phones. By expanding its use of Nuance VSuite, Samsung can make it easier than ever for users to control mobile devices and access advanced mobile applications and content.”

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Nuance Mobile Solutions are a combination of innovative products and services that use intelligent touch, speech and search interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people use mobile devices, applications and services. Nuance Mobile Solutions make it easier to control mobile devices, automate customer services, and to access and discover even the most advanced mobile applications and content – regardless of technical know-how, location, environment or physical and literacy capabilities.

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