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NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS DELIVERS INDUSTRY LEADING T9® TEXT INPUT SOFTWARE IN HINGLISH
 
Leading Alphabetic Text Entry Solution for Mobile Phones and PDAs
Responds to Texting Patterns of India’s Youth
 
New Delhi, (India) December 09, 2007 - Responding to a population of over 350 million  “Hinglish” (mixture of Hindi and English) speakers in the Indian subcontinent, Nuance Communications, Inc., the leading supplier of speech, imaging solutions and text input solutions, today announced the availability of its popular T9® Text Input software in Hinglish. Nuance Communications’ T9 Hinglish software offers advanced alphabetic input prediction in Hinglish to help mobile phone and PDA users to quickly write SMS text messages, mobile instant messages and wireless e-mails in a language popular with India’s youth.

Specifically, the advanced T9 Text Input product offers enhanced Hinglish support, making it easier for users to use Hinglish words like chai, desi, jungli etc. while composing SMS messages. This new upgrade joins additional valuable features that were added to T9 Version 7 series software earlier to provide an unparalleled robust end-user experience. Among others, these new features include an enhanced word completion function and next word prediction.

"Keeping in mind the growth of Hinglish as the emerging language spoken especially by urban youth in India it becomes important for us to cater to this segment” said
Eric Collins, General Manager & Vice President, Nuance.  He added, “Today, as mobile phones and text messaging in particular gain mainstream acceptance in India, we are delivering on our mission to make text entry faster, simpler and more consumer friendly”.

Hinglish T9 is the first T9 mixed-language database, consisting of tens of thousands of Hindi words transliterated into Latin script, as well as a vast English wordlist.  A demo and early release of Hinglish T9 is now available for licensing to handset makers. Hinglish T9 joins the world’s only extensive suite of Indic languages for predictive text input for mobile devices in vernacular script, including Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, and newly-released Kannada.


About T9® Software
T9 Text Input, a leading alphabet-based and Chinese, Japanese and Korean character-based messaging software, and is available in more than 67 languages.  T9 was developed by Tegic Communications, which was acquired by Nuance Communications in August 2007. By incorporating T9 software into mobile communications products, companies are solving the fundamental problem of how to quickly and easily send mobile messages and browse the Web. More than 800 mobile phone models available throughout the world today include T9 software and the technology has been licensed to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers worldwide.

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.