Dragon NaturallySpeaking from Nuance Wins Prestigious PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Award

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·         Published 11/10/2008

PC Magazine Editors Hail Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Accuracy, Speed and New Voice Shortcuts; Dragon dubbed “a perennially great piece of software”

BURLINGTON, MA, September 3, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that its recently released Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® 10 software has received the prestigious Editors’ Choice award from the editors of PC Magazine, following a rigorous technical and usability analysis. This is the third such award that PC Magazine has bestowed on Dragon NaturallySpeaking in recent years.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking software from Nuance is used by millions of people — in the office, at home, at school, on the road, even in the operating room — to get more done faster by voice. With Dragon, people can write documents and emails, search the Web, and even control their PC entirely by voice, saving time and boosting productivity. In their latest review, the editors of PC Magazine noted: “Dragon retains its lead in the speech recognition field, with surprising accuracy in dictation, even with little or no training.”

Calling out Dragon 10’s marked improvements in speed and accuracy, as well as the new Dragon Voice Shortcuts, the editors added: “…if you're serious about dictation, you'll want Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Professional...That's worth paying for. Accuracy, speed, and customizability, along with its new tools for working with e-mail, the Web, and Office apps, cinch its place as our Editors' Choice for speech recognition software.” The full review can be found at http://www.pcmag.com.

“We are thrilled to have been honored by PC Magazine with the Editors’ Choice award,” said Peter Mahoney, general manager and vice president, Desktop Dictation, Nuance. “This award is tremendous validation that Dragon is indeed the best speech recognition solution on the market today. We are proud to be recognized publicly with such a trusted symbol of technology quality and innovation as the PC Magazine Editor’s Choice award.”