BURLINGTON, MA, February 12, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today introduced two new programs aimed at providing cost-effective and flexible ways for students and educational institutions to take advantage of Nuance’s desktop productivity applications. The new Student License Program offers education discounts for individual purchases of Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking and its full line of document management solutions, while the Education Consortium Program gives state consortia volume discounts on the same.

Under the new Student License Program, students, faculty and staff within accredited K-12 and higher education institutions can purchase Dragon NaturallySpeaking, as well as the new PDF+Scan Suite — a bundle of Nuance’s market-leading PaperPort, OmniPage and PDF Converter desktop applications — at a significant discount. The new program puts Dragon in the hands of individual students who want to ease the burden of typing or overcome a language-based learning disability, or teachers who want to grade papers more quickly and provide more comprehensive feedback. It also gives students and education professionals an affordable way to work more efficiently between their paper and electronic environments with Nuance’s leading document management and PDF solutions.

With the new Education Consortium Program, state education consortia can easily purchase Dragon NaturallySpeaking and the PDF+Scan Suite at substantial savings. Leading education consortia such as The Foundation for California Community Colleges, the Iowa Educators Consortium, the Northeast Regional Computing Program Consortium, the Mississippi Department of Education and the South Carolina Department of Education have already taken advantage of the program due to its simple, flexible licensing and attractive volume discounts.

“The decision to partner with Nuance was an easy one,” said Anthony L. Dillon, Education Associate, South Carolina Department of Education. “We needed a simple, affordable way to give our schools access to today’s best speech recognition application — Dragon NaturallySpeaking — to support our Digital Input Technology curriculum. Even in tough economic times, Nuance was able to come to the table with a cost-effective and flexible license agreement that minimized our costs while at the same time gave us access to the industry’s best technology.”

Dragon and the PDF+Scan Suite

Nuance’s new education programs make it easier than ever for students and education professionals to increase their productivity, overcome learning challenges and even get more organized, by offering education discounts on the following applications:

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 — Fast, easy and amazingly accurate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows people to write documents and emails, search the Web, and even control their PC entirely by voice, usually three times faster than they type. Dragon allows students to communicate more efficiently and effectively by helping them to quickly and easily transfer ideas from their minds onto paper, even helping to overcome language-based learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, as well as other physical challenges.
PDF+Scan Suite — Combining all of Nuance’s leading imaging solutions, Nuance’s PDF+Scan Suite helps students and education professionals to manage and share all of their paper and electronic documents with today’s leading OCR, scanning and PDF applications. Included are:
- PaperPort 11 — PaperPort is the most productive and cost effective way to scan and organize documents including paper, PDF, files and photographs. It turns piles of paper – school notes, textbooks, and assignments - into organized files that you can easily print, find and share.
- OmniPage 16 — OmniPage is the easiest way to edit, share and store paper, PDF and electronic documents. The software turns paper and digital documents that would take hours to re-type and lay out into perfectly formatted text documents in seconds. With the innovative 3D Capture feature users can turn pictures from artwork, reference books, and even advertisements — taken with a digital camera – into editable documents. Users can even turn text into human-sounding audio books for the iPod or MP3-player.
- PDF Converter Professional 5 — PDF Converter 5 is the quickest and easiest method to create, convert, and edit PDF files. It creates PDF files from practically any PC application, or converts PDFs into Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Make changes directly within a PDF file, compare two versions of a PDF document, or insert a table of contents into a PDF, based on the bookmark hierarchy. Secure your assignments by applying digital signatures and security settings as staff and students transfer information across a university, college or school network.

About the Nuance Student License Program and Education Consortium Program

The Nuance Student Licensing Program provides students, faculty and staff of accredited higher or further education institutions and public or private primary and secondary schools access to industry leading speech and imaging software at significant discounts for personal and academic use. Any current student (over the age of 13), faculty/teacher, and staff member of a recognized K-12 or Higher Education institution in the U.S or Canada can purchase the software for individual use. For more information, go to www.nuance.com/educationvalidation.

The Nuance Education Consortium Program

The Nuance Education Consortium Program leverages the Nuance Advantage Agreement, which allows educational system and consortia members to purchase Nuance products at substantial savings. Members enjoy all of the benefits of licensing, without the challenge of coordinating large, upfront purchases. Discount levels are based on a two year purchase forecast and are applied starting with the first order. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com/education/.

About 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 and professional services. For more information, please visit: www.nuance.com.