Nuance Launches Productivity Suite That Helps Employees Increase Their Productivity at Work

Award-Winning Career Survival Tools - OmniPage, PDF Converter Professional, PaperPort and Dragon NaturallySpeaking - Offered in One Package

London, April 28, 2008 – As organisations consider cost-saving strategies to prepare themselves for the uncertain global economic outlook, Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the Nuance Productivity Suite. Developed to help employees maximize the value they personally deliver back to the business by dramatically ramping up their desktop workflow productivity, the Nuance Productivity Suite comprises Nuance’s best-selling and award-winning range of OCR, scanning, PDF, document management and speech recognition solutions. The Nuance Productivity Suite provides employees with the software tools they need to streamline processes and, optimise content management and improving overall desktop productivity.

The Nuance Productivity Suite includes:

• Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9
  Fast, easy and amazingly accurate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is over three times faster than typing. It can also help users avoid RSI and other office work-related injuries, and it can empower employees with upper body disabilities with the same productivity levels as their able-bodied peers.
• PaperPort 11
  PaperPort makes finding electronic documents and breeze. Save time searching for documents with its automatic indexing, and easily share documents between departments and clients quickly and efficiently.
• OmniPage 16
  Unprecedented recognition accuracy and layout retention, auto form recognition and filling, 3DC Digital Camera Technology and batch processing.
• PDF Converter Professional 5
  Everything an organisation needs to create, convert and edit PDFs to and from the most frequently used Windows applications – including the new Microsoft Office 2007.

Commenting on the introduction of the Nuance Productivity Suite, Robert Weideman, senior vice president of EMEA marketing for Nuance said; “Companies are increasingly looking at downsizing and reassessing head count as a way of reducing costs during tough economic conditions. The staff that are retained will be those that add the most value back to the business, and whose heightened levels of productivity enable them to achieve even more during the course of the working day. The Nuance Productivity Suite provides them with the career survival software tools they need to maintain their – and their company’s - competitive edge.”

The Nuance Productivity Suite is an ideal add-on to Microsoft Office and Outlook and delivers an ultimate performance running on computers running Microsoft® Windows Vista™, XP or 2000. The tools in the Productivity Suite integrate seamlessly with traditional Windows applications: create, convert, edit and organise files to and from popular applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, as well as the most actual, including XPS and Microsoft Office 2007.

Please visit http://www.nuance.co.uk/productivitysuite/ for guidelines how employees can best utilise the products featured in the Nuance Productivity Suite, in order to ensure to that employees are productive all day long.

Availability and Pricing

Nuance Productivity Suite Business Edition contains OmniPage Professional 16, PDF Converter Professional 5 Enterprise Edition, PaperPort Professional 11, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred 9 (including Andrea USB headset). The Business Edition costs £549.99. Nuance Productivity Suite Home Edition contains OmniPage 16, PDF Converter Professional 5, PaperPort 11, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard 9 (including Andrea USB headset) and costs £249.99. Both packages are only available through purchase online on the Nuance store. For more information on the Nuance Productivity Suite go to http://www.nuance.co.uk/productivitysuite/. For sales and pricing information, please call 0871 641 2212.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance is a leading provider of speech, smart keypad 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. For more information, please visit www.nuance.co.uk.

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