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Press Releases 2003

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December 2003
Dec 18, 2003 French Highway Subsidiary Selects ScanSoft Speech Technology To Speech-Enable Traffic Information Service
Dec 17, 2003 Smart Computing Names ScanSoft PaperPort Pro 9 Office to List of "50 Hottest PC Products"
Dec 08, 2003 ScanSoft Speech Solution Increases Efficiency for Premium Automobile Manufacturer's Internal IT Hotline
Dec 01, 2003 ScanSoft and the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Offer Visually Impaired People Audio Access to The New Zealand Herald
November 2003
Nov 24, 2003 ScanSoft® Speech Technology Selected by Ubisoft For Use in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™: Jungle Storm
Nov 19, 2003 NCR and ScanSoft Enter into Global Agreement to Speech-Enable ATMs Worldwide
Nov 13, 2003 ScanSoft Ships OmniPage Pro 14 Office; Offers Unmatched Document Conversion and Expanded PDF Capabilities for Workgroups of All Sizes
Nov 13, 2003 ScanSoft Announces Third Quarter Results
Nov 12, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces Kyoko; A Female Japanese Voice for Embedded and Network-Based Text-to-Speech Applications
Nov 05, 2003 ScanSoft to Host Web Seminar on Newly Launched Voice Identity Program (V.I.P.™)
Nov 04, 2003 ScanSoft Speech Solution Efficiently Handles More than Eight Million Calls and Generates New Revenues for Dollar Rent A Car
Nov 03, 2003 ScanSoft, Inc. to Announce Third Quarter Financial Results on November 13
October 2003
Oct 29, 2003 America First Credit Union Approves Over $43 Million in Member Loans Using Speech-Enabled Instant Loan Application Powered by ScanSoft
Oct 28, 2003 ScanSoft's Speech Technology Selected by Vivendi Universal Games for Use in SWAT® Global Strike Team
Oct 23, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces New Suite of Speech Optimization Services
Oct 23, 2003 ScanSoft Announces Winners of 4th Annual Best Practices Competition
Oct 22, 2003 ScanSoft Establishes Dedicated Professional Services Team to Focus Exclusively on Directory Assistance Solutions for Service Providers Worldwide
Oct 21, 2003 ScanSoft and Microsoft Collaborate to Bring PDF to Word Conversion Capabilities to Millions of Microsoft Office System Users
Oct 16, 2003 ScanSoft Releases OpenSpeech Recognizer 2.0 Software
Oct 15, 2003 Countdown to Conversations 2003; Bank of America and Verizon Keynote ScanSoft's Fifth Annual Speech Conference
Oct 15, 2003 ScanSoft Named Market Leader in Asia Pacific Speech Recognition Market
Oct 14, 2003 ScanSoft, Teltronics and 1450 Inc. Team to Enable Speech-based Accessibility Solutions for Individuals with Disabilities
Oct 09, 2003 ScanSoft Expands Leading Portfolio of Text-to-Speech Software with Speechify 3.0 and "Speechify Jill", a New U.S. English Voice
Oct 08, 2003 ScanSoft Teams with Microsoft to Automate the Conversion of Microsoft Word, Paper and PDF Forms into Microsoft InfoPath Forms
Oct 07, 2003 Envox Worldwide and ScanSoft Expand Partnership to Advance Standards-Based Speech Solutions
Oct 07, 2003 Freedom Scientific Selects ScanSoft Technology for OpenBook Scanning & Reading Solution to Assist Visually Impaired
September 2003
Sept 30, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces the SpeechWorks® Suite of Network Speech Solutions
Sept 29, 2003 CARS 511 Consortium Selects ScanSoft for Speech-Enabled 511 Traffic Information Service
Sept 26, 2003 SpeechWorks and ScanSoft Combined Speech Recognition Deployments in 2002 Positions Merged Company as Leader in Speech Recognition Market
Sept 17, 2003 ScanSoft Capture Development System 12 Wins Transform Magazine Readers' Choice Award
Sept 11, 2003 ScanSoft Ships PaperPort Pro 9 Office for Germany, Belgium, France and Spain
Sept 03, 2003 ScanSoft and Comfort Launch Asia's First Taxi Booking Service Using Speechify Text-to-Speech Software
August 2003
Aug 27, 2003 ScanSoft Speech Recognition Engine Selected By PEIKER for Chrysler Group's Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit
Aug 26, 2003 Avaya and ScanSoft Develop Innovative Speech Service for Qantas Airways Frequent Flyer Program
Aug 21, 2003 ScanSoft Teams with Microsoft to Enable Paperless Medical Records by Integrating Speech and Network Scanning with New Microsoft Office Products
Aug 20, 2003 David Gerth Joins ScanSoft as Chief Financial Officer
Aug 19, 2003 Social Security Administration Selects ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking to Streamline Manual Processes
Aug 14, 2003 ScanSoft Announces Second Quarter Results
Aug 12, 2003 ScanSoft Closes Acquisition of SpeechWorks International, Inc.
Aug 11, 2003 ScanSoft and SpeechWorks Shareholders Approve Merger
Aug 07, 2003 ScanSoft to Broadcast Breakout Session from Adams, Harkness & Hill 2003 Summer Seminar
Aug 07, 2003 ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Software to Bundle with Sony's Latest Portable Digital Voice Recorders
Aug 06, 2003 ScanSoft to Initiate Share Repurchase of Up to $25 Million Following Close of SpeechWorks Acquisition
Aug 06, 2003 ScanSoft, Inc. Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Results
July 2003
July 24, 2003 ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking Wins 2003 Law Office Computing Readers' Choice Award
July 23, 2003 Triton Selects ScanSoft RealSpeak to Create Talking ATMs that Assist Visually Impaired with Remote Banking
July 15, 2003 Leicestershire Police Selects ScanSoft's OmniPage Pro 12 Office
July 14, 2003 ScanSoft RealSpeak Selected As the Voice for Microsoft's Educational Initiative in Germany
July 09, 2003 ScanSoft Joins Microsoft to Promote Speech as Pervasive Technology for Enterprise Customers
July 08, 2003 The White Stone Group Selects ScanSoft to Automate Its VoiCert® Healthcare Transactions
July 01, 2003 ScanSoft Expands Language Support for Its Speech Solutions; Extends Value of RealSpeak and SpeechPearl to Additional International Regions
June 2003
June 25, 2003 Leading Technology Companies Select ScanSoft Capture Development System as Preferred Solution for Imaging and Document Management Applications
June 23, 2003 ScanSoft Announces Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Developer Toolkits for Windows Mobile 2003 Software for Pocket PCs
June 19, 2003 Physician Micro Systems and ScanSoft Integrate Dragon NaturallySpeaking with Practice Partner Patient Records Software
June 18, 2003 New ScanSoft VoiceRequest 2.0 Brings Productivity of Voice-Activated Call Routing to Organizations of All Sizes
June 16, 2003 ScanSoft Licenses PaperPort and OmniForm to HP as Part of Integrated Bundle for HP's New Line of Business Scanners in North America and Europe
June 12, 2003 ScanSoft Teams with Microsoft to Expand the Use of Assistive Products Based on Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech
June 11, 2003 textHELP! Selects ScanSoft Speech and Imaging Solutions for Literacy Development Software
June 06, 2003 ScanSoft and SpeechWorks Announce Termination of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period for Pending Merger
June 06, 2003 ScanSoft and SpeechWorks Announce Termination of Hart-Scott-Rodino Waiting Period for Pending Merger
May 2003
May 29, 2003 ScanSoft PaperPort Pro 9 Office Receives Editors' Choice Award from C|NET
May 28, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces X|mode Multimodal System for Interactive Wireless Applications
May 27, 2003 ScanSoft Ships SpeechPearl XML, Bringing Highly Accurate Speech Recognition to Platforms Based on VoiceXML and SALT Standards
May 21, 2003 ScanSoft PaperPort Pro 9 Office Receives Coveted Five-Star Rating from PC Magazine
May 20, 2003 ScanSoft RealSpeak Reads Short Message Service Messages Aloud to KPN Users
May 13, 2003 ScanSoft - SNT Nederland Selects ScanSoft and VoltDelta for Automated Directory Assistance Solution
May 06, 2003 ScanSoft Posts Record First Quarter Revenue
April 2003
Apr 30, 2003 ScanSoft Ships Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Legal, Enabling the Creation of Contracts, Letters and Transcripts Simply by Speaking
Apr 29, 2003 ScanSoft Named to Boston Herald's Herald 100; Ranked First in Two-Year Shareholder Return
Apr 28, 2003 ScanSoft Solutions 2003 VAR Conference Showcases Speech Recognition in Healthcare, Legal and Accessibility Markets
Apr 25, 2003 ScanSoft and IBM to Expand Server, Embedded and Desktop Speech Offerings
Apr 24, 2003 ScanSoft and SpeechWorks to Merge; Brings Together the Broadest Portfolio of Speech Technologies, Applications and Services
Apr 21, 2003 CSC Selects ScanSoft RealSpeak as the Voice of the Maryland State Highway Safety Service
Apr 15, 2003 ScanSoft Ships Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Medical, Lowers Healthcare Costs through Highly Accurate Speech Recognition
Apr 14, 2003 United States Patent and Trademark Office Selects ScanSoft's Dragon NaturallySpeaking as its Speech Recognition Solution
Apr 11, 2003 ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Receives Editors' Choice Award from TECH Edge Magazine
Apr 09, 2003 American Academy of Ophthalmology Selects ScanSoft OmniForm for Use in Practice Forms Master, an Electronic Form Product
Apr 07, 2003 ScanSoft Capture Development System 12 Adds Asian OCR, Combines Superior Accuracy and Speed with PDF and XML
Apr 07, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces PaperPort Link Agents, Gaining Support From Cardiff, HP, Kofax, Microsoft, Oracle, Xerox and Others
Apr 07, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces PaperPort Link Agents, Gaining Support From Cardiff, HP, Kofax, Microsoft, Oracle, Xerox and Others
March 2003
Mar 31, 2003 ScanSoft Capture Development System 12 Adds Asian OCR, Combines Superior Accuracy and Speed with PDF and XML
Mar 26, 2003 ScanSoft Introduces Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Professional with Unrivaled Speech Recognition Accuracy and Accessibility Features
Mar 24, 2003 Active Voice Selects ScanSoft RealSpeak for Unified Messaging Solutions
Mar 19, 2003 New ScanSoft PaperPort Deluxe 9.0 Simplifies Organizing and Sharing Scanned Paper, PC Documents and Digital Photos
Mar 18, 2003 ScanSoft Applications Solutions VAR Program Earns Five-Star Rating from VARBusiness Magazine
Mar 17, 2003 ScanSoft and Oracle Enable PDF Creation and Network Scanning with Oracle® Collaboration Suite
Mar 12, 2003 ScanSoft Speech Recognition Incorporated in PlayStation®2 Game Operator's Side Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment
Mar 11, 2003 Nuance to Resell ScanSoft RealSpeak in 14 Languages, Expands Text-to-Speech Capabilities
Mar 05, 2003 ScanSoft to Offer Online Seminar Series on Productivity Solutions for Healthcare Industry
Mar 05, 2003 ScanSoft Board of Directors Names Jeanne McCann an Executive Officer
Mar 04, 2003 ScanSoft Ships PaperPort Pro 9 Office; Brings the Power of PDF Creation, Network Scanning and Document Management to All Office Workers
Mar 03, 2003 ScanSoft Ships Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7; Speech Recognition Goes Mainstream with Most Accurate and Fastest Release Ever
February 2003
Feb 25, 2003 ScanSoft Posts Record Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2002 Revenue and Earnings
Feb 24, 2003 German Ministry of Justice Selects ScanSoft's Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Feb 18, 2003 Oxford University Press Selects ScanSoft RealSpeak to Teach Proper Pronunciation to Language Students and Travelers
Feb 04, 2003 MailCode, Inc. Selects ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking to Sort Mail by Voice for the United States Postal Service and Corporate Mail Centers
January 2003
Jan 31, 2003 ScanSoft Completes Acquisition of Philips Speech Processing Business Units
Jan 27, 2003 ScanSoft Announces Preliminary Results for Fiscal Year 2002, Expects Record Revenue and Earnings
Jan 14, 2003 ScanSoft Added to Telematics Valley, an Intra-Industry Consortium to Promote Adoption of Telematics Solutions
Jan 14, 2003 ScanSoft RealSpeak Selected as the Voice for German Freemail Portal; Provides Access to Personal Information by Voice

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