BURLINGTON, Mass., August 6, 2008 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the winners of its “I Speak Dragon!” contest, which invited Nuance’s Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® software users to share their unique experiences using the world’s most popular speech recognition solution. The second annual contest encouraged users to share their personal stories about how Dragon has improved their lives.

A testament to Dragon’s broad reach and impact on those who use it, the contest responses were overwhelming, with over 650 Dragon NaturallySpeaking users submitting unique and exciting stories. People from all walks of life — such as college students, writers, teachers, artists, senior citizens, doctors, genealogists, bloggers, lawyers, law enforcement officers and military personnel — submitted amazing stories of improved productivity, creativity and just plain fun using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Three winning entries were selected by a panel of judges from the hundreds of exceptional stories received in three categories, and Nuance is pleased to announce the following winners:

I Speak Dragon to Improve My Creativity

William Brotherton never learned to type; he simply didn’t need to as a brakeman and conductor riding locomotives and cabooses for the Burlington Northern Railroad. Two decades later, as he began a career in law, Brotherton started to see how his inability to type would limit what he would be able to do. Determined not to let his lack of finesse with a keyboard hinder his professional status, Brotherton purchased the very first version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking in 1997 and has been loyal to the software ever since. By using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Brotherton has been able to write stories, articles — and even a book entitled “Burlington Northern Adventures: Railroading in the Days of the Caboose” — about his time on the railroad. He is able to express himself creatively without ever using his hands, something that would be impossible without his Dragon software.

Brotherton’s story is one that represents a large number of people who are either not able or choose not to type, and who would be seriously limited in terms of what they could do creatively if not for the freedom of dictation that Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides. He attributes his success as an author to Dragon: “Thanks Dragon NaturallySpeaking for allowing me to do so much, even though I refused to learn how to type!”

I Speak Dragon to Improve My Life

While serving in Iraq, Chuck Ziegenfuss chronicled his thoughts and experiences in a blog. He gained a readership that appreciated the details and openness in which he told his insightful stories with self-deprecating humor. In June of 2005, Ziegenfuss was wounded by an IED while serving as commander of a tank company. During the recovery from his injury, his wife continued blogging for him. Soon he wanted to get back to authoring the blog himself, but his typing was impaired due to the damage done to his hands by the IED.

A loyal reader of the blog bought Ziegenfuss a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to allow him to freely dictate his thoughts without relying on others. Once he started using Dragon to blog, Ziegenfuss’ readers agreed that this technology should be available to other soldiers who were in the same situation that he was. Ziegenfuss partnered with SoldiersAngels to form VALOUR-IT (Voice Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops) with a vision to provide laptops equipped with Dragon NaturallySpeaking to wounded soldiers whose injuries prevented them from operating a computer manually.

“I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to regain control of the life that was temporarily robbed from me, and to bring that same sense of empowerment to other soldiers just like me,” said Ziegenfuss. “The use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to use a computer, to connect, to do something that I was able to do before I was injured made me feel somewhat whole, somewhat normal, for the first time. It has been my distinct pleasure and honor to give that feeling, a feeling of ability, to our wounded. Dragon has not only improved my life, it has changed my life.”

I Speak Dragon to Improve My Work

Doug Edwards is a property inspector for residential and light commercial inspections, as well as a licensed public adjuster. His job requires that he go to numerous sites on a given day to perform inspections, each of which can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. After a long day in the field, Edwards has to create extensive, often complicated, reports of his findings.

When Edwards found Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the way that he approached reporting fundamentally changed. “It takes me about one tenth of the time to generate an extremely clean, accurate report. It is virtually like dictating my field notes and checklist items to a stenographer,” said Edwards. “Dragon has saved me untold hours of typing thousands of important details into a fine finished product. I can almost always generate a polished report that can be emailed out in less than 24 hours from the end of the actual inspection. For that, our customers are very happy and impressed.”

The above winners will each receive a Garmin Nuvi 360 Personal Travel Assistant as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades for three years.

To see a compendium of the most compelling contest entries that demonstrate some of the unique ways that people everywhere are using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, please visit: http://www.nuance.com/dragonstories/readstories.asp.

About Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance is used by millions of people to create documents and emails up to three times faster than typing, and to use their PC simply by speaking. Dragon NaturallySpeaking delivers what matters most in speech recognition — the highest levels of accuracy, seamless integration many popular PC applications, and unrivalled ease of use. Dragon NaturallySpeaking converts speech into text at up to 160 words-per-minute with up to 99 percent accuracy. Dragon is available in US English, Australian English, Asian English, Indian English, UK English, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking.

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