Nuance and SRC Help UK Legal Professionals Raise the Bar with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Legal Language Edition

Features seven language dictionaries created specifically for the UK’s legal profession

14 December 2009, London UK, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has today announced the introduction of Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® 10 Legal, the latest addition to the world’s best selling desktop speech recognition software range. Developed in conjunction with SRC, Dragon 10 offers seven specialised UK-English legal dictionaries, created to bring the renowned productivity and accuracy benefits of Dragon to all busy legal professionals. Ideally suited to legal practises of all sizes – from sole practitioners to larger practices - Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Legal includes dictionaries for the following legal disciplines: property law, personal injury, and commercial litigation.

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, people can create documents and emails, search the Web, and even control their PC entirely by voice, saving time and boosting productivity. Because most people speak at least three times faster than they type, Dragon NaturallySpeaking makes it possible to get things done more quickly by voice than by relying on the keyboard and mouse. Version 10 is nearly twice as fast as the previous release and can deliver accuracy up to 99 per cent, while never making a spelling mistake.

With its new legal industry-specific dictionaries, Dragon further helps legal professionals address issues facing the profession, such as the reduction in legal aid paid to legal professionals. By empowering legal professionals to dramatically increase their productivity, Dragon enables them to service more clients, and deliver an even higher quality of service through the faster creation, processing, and exchange of important legal documentation. It also enables them to reduce reliance on admin support staff and outsourced transcription services. The Legal version has already been well received during initial deployments.

As a long-term Nuance development partner with a rich pedigree in developing specialist dictionaries, SRC was well placed to partner with Nuance to create Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Legal. SRC gathered vast quantities of captured legal text, which it subsequently cleansed. SRC’s meticulous cleansing process enables the Legal language version of Dragon to retain and enhance the product’s ability to effortlessly recognise legal terminology, ensuring Dragon’s renowned accuracy is maintained.

Commenting on the introduction of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Legal, Peter MacKinnon, Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA at Nuance said: “Dragon is well suited to any document-intensive profession. The Legal Language version now ensures that a broad group of legal professionals can now enjoy the power, performance and accuracy of creating documents simply by talking to their computer. With their unrivalled expertise in creating UK dictionaries, SRC was the right development and collaboration partner for this new addition to the respected and popular Dragon family.”

The Legal Language version of Dragon complements the recently introduced Medical Language version of the software called Dragon Medical.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking software from Nuance is used by millions of people – in the office, at home, at school, on the road, even in the operating theatre – to get more done faster by voice. Dragon delivers what matters most in speech recognition – superior levels of accuracy, seamless integration with the most popular PC applications, and unrivalled ease of use.

Pricing and Availability

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Legal is available now and is supplied with a noise cancelling microphone.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Legal prices start at £649 ex VAT. The Professional to Legal upgrade is £115.00 ex VAT. A five user Starter Pack starts at £2,499.00 ex VAT, while a ten user start pack starts at £4,499.00 ex VAT. It is available through SRC and authorised Dragon resellers.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN) 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.co.uk.

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About SRC

SRC are the UK’s leading document creation professionals. The company's mission is to ensure its customers achieve cost savings and productivity improvements through the delivery, implementation and support of leading edge document creation and distribution technologies.

SRC provides consultancy for all elements of the professional document creation process together with high-quality delivery, implementation and support services. SRC's teams combine years of industry experience with the ability and commitment to deliver solutions that not only meet but exceed customers' objectives.

SRC only partners with best-of-breed, global technology providers, including WinScribe, Nuance, Olympus, Philips, Grundig and PCTI Solutions. The company is WinScribe’s Platinum Partner and is the holder of several Dragon NaturallySpeaking Partner Awards recognising the high quality of its speech recognition solutions. SRC is a Microsoft Certified Partner and ISO 9001 certified.

SRC is privately owned and backed by leading financial institution, DJF Esprit.

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