Nuance Communications Inc. : Nuance Cloud Services Turns Connected Consumer Electronics into Intelligent Systems

Nuance's Customizable Cloud Brings Personal Assistants to Virtually Any Device, Car, Appliance or App

LAS VEGAS AND BURLINGTON, Mass. - January 6, 2014 - Nuance Communications Inc. today announced Nuance Cloud Services, a configurable, connected platform that transforms devices, consumer electronics, services and mobile apps into intelligent personal assistants. Leveraging Nuance's full portfolio of voice, natural language understanding, predictive input, and content, Nuance Cloud Services creates a world of intelligent systems that listen, understand, and engage on a human level - changing the way people interact with our connected world.

More than10 billion transactions to date have touched Nuance's mobile cloud, which already powers many of the voice, touch and personal assistant experiences on the world's best-selling phones, tablets, cars, TVs, and PCs, with rapid growth across wearable devices and connected home appliances. In fact, by the end of December 2013, more than 100 million monthly active users-engaged in a voice or personal assistant experience through the Nuance cloud across the world's most recognizable brands, including Audi, BMW, LG, Mercedes, Samsung, and many others.

Today, Nuance is announcing an even more powerful cloud service that gives manufacturers, service providers, carriers and developers the ability to create unique mobile experiences on any device, any platform, and in more than 40 languages. Nuance Cloud Services gives personal assistants both a brain and a personality, leveraging Nuance's voice and natural language understanding combined with artificial intelligence, contextual dialogue, customized and expressive text-to-speech, always listening wake-up capabilities, voice biometrics, content delivery, and chat bot capabilities, creating a more human conversation and experience with technology.

"Nuance Cloud Services is providing much more than an interface, but rather a meaningful conversation with technology," said Michael Thompson, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. "More importantly, each and every assistant designed through our cloud can be different, giving OEMs and developers the ability to create personal assistants that are unique to their brand."

Nuance Cloud Services is at the core of Nuance's most successful intelligent systems, including Dragon Mobile Assistant, Dragon Drive, Dragon TV, Dragon Assistant for Intel-powered devices, Dragon Voicemail-to-Text, mobile apps powered by the NDEV mobile developer program. To learn more about what Nuance can make possible for your mobile experience, visit http://www.nuance.com/for-business/mobile-solutions/index.htm.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice and language 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 devices and systems. 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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