PEABODY, Mass., July 1, 2003 - ScanSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSFT), a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced the availability of new languages for RealSpeak™, its award-winning text-to-speech (TTS) solution, and SpeechPearl®, its best-in-class automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine. The new languages, including RealSpeak Russian, RealSpeak Canadian French and SpeechPearl Arabic, enhance ScanSoft's position as a leading provider of speech solutions, and build on the broadest language portfolio worldwide.

ScanSoft's speech solutions are available in the largest portfolio of languages and dialects of any speech products on the market today. ScanSoft's RealSpeak is the industry's pre-eminent TTS solution for customer-facing telephony applications, and powers a growing number of telephony applications, including those from Alcatel, Edify, Cisco, Comverse, IBM, Intervoice, Nortel, Philips, Siemens and Unisys. SpeechPearl is ScanSoft's speech recognition solution designed for voice-processing platforms and a wide range of telephony-based speech applications. With highly accurate recognition and natural language processing, SpeechPearl is ideally suited for today's increasingly sophisticated call center applications and comes standard with ScanSoft RealSpeak TTS, making it the most complete and robust ASR solution available.

"ScanSoft's speech solutions are already available in the widest range of global languages and we continue to expand our portfolio in response to market opportunities and customer feedback," said Robert Weideman, chief marketing officer at ScanSoft. "The steady cadence of design wins for both RealSpeak and SpeechPearl over the last several months reflects the inherent value and flexibility of both of these product lines. We intend to further expand these solutions and offer greater choices and flexibility for our intercontinental customers."

About ScanSoft® RealSpeak™

ScanSoft RealSpeak is the most widely used TTS solution in the world. RealSpeak is able to read, understand, and convert text information into the most human-sounding male and female voices available. The high quality and intelligibility of RealSpeak enable businesses to deploy highly interactive and user-friendly applications, and with applications like SMS, provide a new level of freedom and ease-of-use to consumers everywhere. The technology is also used for a wide range of applications, including delivering emails for unified messaging systems, providing prompts for interactive voice response (IVR) applications, and speech-enabling mobile, automotive, game and PC/multi-media applications.

About ScanSoft® SpeechPearl™

SpeechPearl is a leading automatic speech recognition (ASR) software technology from ScanSoft designed for integration into voice processing platforms. Developed for a wide range of telephony speech applications, from high-density digit recognition up to several million-word vocabularies, SpeechPearl provides extremely accurate speech recognition and understanding for human-like telephony services. SpeechPearl consists of a comprehensive set of modules for easy application development and system integration. SpeechPearl is deployed in some of the world's leading telephony organizations, including Portugal Telecom, Japan Multimedia Service and Repons AB Sweden, as well as corporate organizations such as Subway Restaurants.

About ScanSoft, Inc.

ScanSoft, Inc. is a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes-saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service. For additional information on the company, please visit www.scansoft.com/.

Trademark reference: ScanSoft. SpeechPearl and RealSpeak are trademarks or registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with market trends, competitive factors, and other risks identified in ScanSoft's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof.

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