CSC Selects ScanSoft RealSpeak as the Voice of the Maryland State Highway Safety Service

Traffic, Weather and Homeland Defense Concerns Drive The Need for Real-Time Road and Bridge Information Delivery; RealSpeak Delivers Alerts and Advisories 7/24

PEABODY, Mass., April 21, 2003 - ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), one of the world's leading information technology (IT) services firms, is using ScanSoft® RealSpeak™ as the synthesized voice for the Maryland State Highway Administration's traffic information system. Through the integration of RealSpeak, drivers are provided with traffic, weather and road conditions via the Maryland Highway Advisory Radio (HAR) network, which are low power radio stations located throughout the state.

The Maryland State Highway Administration, in conjunction with CSC, developed CHART (Coordinated Highways Action Response Team,) a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary program that monitors the busy Baltimore-Washington Corridor as well as roads and bridges statewide. Staff at the Statewide Operations Center (SOC) use real-time data collection and analysis to assess traffic and road conditions, issuing advisories and actions to emergency personnel and drivers as needed. Data is aggregated and analyzed from personnel in the field, the driving public and over 1,000 remote sensors located in over 500 miles of roads and bridges.

By extending the system with ScanSoft RealSpeak, the Maryland State Highway Administration found an affordable way to communicate real-time information to the driving public. Drivers simply tune into a HAR station, and listen while ScanSoft RealSpeak converts text-based information into human-sounding speech. RealSpeak eliminates the need for a human broadcaster and significantly reduces the cost of delivering the service, which is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

"It is clear that the timely delivery of accurate information can protect the traveling public," said David Snyder, CSC's CHART II project manager. "ScanSoft RealSpeak has given CHART an important tool in their effort to meet the daily challenges of advanced traffic management. RealSpeak met CHART's requirements of high quality, which insures that the information is heard correctly, and ease of integration into the CHART II System, ensuring that the operators are able to quickly disseminate information to the traveling public."

ScanSoft's RealSpeak is the market-leading product for converting text into human-sounding synthesized speech. The technology is 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.

"The leadership and innovation demonstrated by the Maryland State Highway Administration and CSC is an excellent example of government at work," said Wayne Crandall, senior vice president of sales and business development at ScanSoft. "Their use of RealSpeak text-to-speech within a real-time and distributed system provides a roadmap that will surely be followed by other city, state and federal safety agencies."

About ScanSoft RealSpeak

ScanSoft RealSpeak is the market-leading product for converting text into human-sounding synthesized speech. The text-to-speech solution is used for a wide range of applications, including implementing voice portals, 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.

RealSpeak offers a single, standardized application programming interface (API) that supports the creation of speech-enabled applications in 19 languages: US & UK English, German, French, Dutch & Belgian Dutch, Castilian and Mexican Spanish, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Danish and Cantonese & Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

About Computer Sciences Corporation

Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is one of the world's leading information technology (IT) services companies. CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

With approximately 90,000 employees, including more than 26,000 from the company's March 7, 2003 acquisition of DynCorp, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., CSC reported revenue of $11.3 billion for the 12 months ended Dec. 27, 2002. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

About ScanSoft

ScanSoft, Inc. is the 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.

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