BURLINGTON, Mass., April 2, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Nuance Mobile powers 1800-THE-INFO, the nationwide free business information service from Verizon LiveSource. The ad-supported service gives callers the business information they need, when they want it, for no charge.

Nuance provided Verizon with Nuance Voice Search, the industry’s leading speech recognition technology to achieve the best caller experience with the highest automation rates. Nuance and Verizon developed an extensible platform that interfaces to ad-serving partners; provides message delivery options, including SMS for mobile callers; accommodates personalization; and delivers custom call flows for superior caller experiences. With this comprehensive approach, Nuance created a natural and interactive caller experience for business name and category searches with seamless integration to advertising engines.

The 1-800-THE-INFO service delivers automated and operator-delivered business listings through speech and text output. Callers can find a business by name or by category and then hear a brief, targeted marketing offer while waiting for the requested listing to be retrieved.

“Voice search is fundamentally changing the way people access information today,” said Kitty Linder, president of Verizon LiveSource. Verizon LiveSource brought together market leaders including Idearc and Nuance to develop a service that delivers more than basic business listings. “Working with Nuance,” said Linder, “we can deliver a unique service with rich content that allows Verizon users to find their way to people, places and things faster and more accurately.”

“Nuance has helped to pioneer the emerging Free DA industry, and we’ve worked closely with Verizon LiveSource, the Directory Assistance market leader, to create a truly unique service offering,” said Steve Chambers, president, consumer and mobile services division, Nuance. “With the Free DA services market expected to surge to 1.5 billion calls per year by 2010, there remains significant growth opportunity for new services. The nationwide launch of 1-800-THE-INFO marks the successful completion of a broad effort by the Nuance professional services team to create a comprehensive and flexible ad-supported directory assistance platform. Moving forward, we’ll continue to work with Verizon to provide callers with enhanced content and search facilities while continuing to deliver and enhance a superior user experience.”

About Verizon Communications Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving nearly 66 million customers nationwide. Verizon's Wireline operations include Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world, and Verizon Telecom, which brings customers the benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation's most advanced fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of nearly 235,000 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues of $93.5 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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