BURLINGTON, MA — July 20, 2009 — Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced that it has been accepted as a member of the Symbian Foundation, enabling Nuance to further develop and deploy innovative mobile solutions that enhance and simplify devices based on the Symbian operating system (OS). Symbian provides the world’s leading open mobile OS, shipping in over 250 million mobile devices to date.

With Nuance joining the Symbian Foundation, other Foundation members can increasingly leverage Nuance’s mobile voice and text input solutions to facilitate the creation of powerful and intuitive multi-modal interfaces that enhance user experiences, allow for third party development and enhancement, and enable users to maximize the full potential of their devices. This spirit of collaboration for the broader mobile ecosystem fostered by the Symbian Foundation complements Nuance’s extensive portfolio of mobile solutions powered by speech and predictive input technology that simplifies the user experience across all mobile devices.

The Symbian Foundation, together with its ecosystem, is creating the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform. The platform is based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces.

“The Symbian OS brought smartphones to the mainstream and powers among the most advanced devices on the global market,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile. “We expect that the adoption of Series 60 phones from Nokia, Samsung, LG and others is going to rapidly expand over the next few years. This proliferation of Symbian’s open source platform provides Nuance with an exciting opportunity to bring our innovative speech, predictive text and handwriting solutions to an increasingly pervasive mobile platform base around the world.”

Nuance’s broad portfolio of speech and predictive text solutions are already available for many Symbian Series 60 devices around the world, including XT9, T9 Nav, and TALKS&ZOOMS. Nuance’s mobile solutions have shipped on more than 4 billion devices worldwide, a result of its extensive relationships with carriers around the world and with every major mobile handset manufacturer. To learn more, visit www.nuance.com/mobiledevices.

About The Symbian Foundation

The Symbian Foundation, together with its ecosystem, is creating the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform, which is based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces. Symbian OS is the leading open mobile operating system, which has shipped in over 250 million mobile devices to date.

Portions of the source code are already being moved to open source, under the Eclipse Public License. By mid-2010, this process will be complete. This will make the platform code available to all for free, bringing additional innovation and engaging an even broader community in future developments.

The foundation software licensing model and governance structure has been designed to secure transparency, encourage contribution and maintain platform consistency. The foundation promotes collaboration, contributions and active participation and operates as a meritocracy.

The Symbian Foundation now occupies offices in the UK (London) and US (Foster City), and will soon have regional operations in China (Beijing) and Japan (Tokyo).

Symbian Foundation and all Symbian-based trademarks and logos are trademarks of the Symbian Foundation.

For more information please visit www.symbian.org or blog.symbian.org.

About Nuance Mobile

Nuance Mobile builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content — regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.

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.

Nuance, XT9, T9Nav, TALKS&ZOOMS and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States of America and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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