Nuance Communications Wins Frost & Sullivan Leadership Award

Award recognizes Nuance’s Leadership Status in Speech Technology in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA, 29 December, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a world leader in speech technology, has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan, a world leader in market research and corporate best practices with the ‘2008 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for Speech Technology Systems in Contact Center Application category for FY 2008′ in India.

Every year, Frost & Sullivan presents Leadership Awards to companies in recognition of making an outstanding contribution to their respective industries or achieving a competitive or customer-based leading position in the market. To qualify for this best practice award the recipient must display excellence in all areas of the market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these market dynamics.

Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Sunny Rao, Managing Director, India & South East Asia said, “We are truly honoured to receive this prestigious award and I thank Frost & Sullivan for conferring on us this recognition. I believe that the award reflects the commitment and hard work shown by us and our partners towards providing best in class technology to our customers.” Mr. Rao further added, “We are happy that our endeavour to build market leadership by offering innovative speech technology and solutions to contact centers has been recognized. I congratulate the entire Nuance Communications team on this achievement.”

About Nuance India

In India Nuance operates three major lines of business: – Enterprise Speech; Mobile Search & Consumer Services and Imaging & Dictation. Customers are using Nuance technology in the Financial Services and Transportation industries, as well as the majority of Telecommunications Service Providers. In the Indian Enterprise space, Nuance works along with its Channel Partners to implement speech recognition solutions in the contact center. The availability of speech recognition solutions in 11 Indian regional languages means that consumers can transact in the language of their choice and organisations can offer their customers an enhanced self service experience.

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