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ACCENT SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH CREATIVE LABS; Accent Multilingual Word Processor Offered with Creative Labs User Upgrade Kits

Business Wire, Sept 6, 1995

JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 6, 1995--Accent Software International Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACNTF) announced today that the Company has signed an agreement with UK-based Creative Labs, a subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF). Accent's multilingual word processor will be bundled with Creative Labs' user upgrade kits for its PC products including CD ROMs, modems, and audio and video cards.

Creative Labs will immediately begin bundling copies of the popular Accent multilingual word processor with its user upgrade kits sold in the UK, Germany and France. Creative Labs plans to extend this offer to Scandinavia and Russia in the coming months. The agreement runs through March, 1997.

"This is a wonderful opportunity for us to expand our user base", stated Joel Fisher, Accent's Vice President of International Sales and Marketing. He added, "Creative Labs is one of the best known designers and manufacturers of high quality tools for the PC market, and we're pleased they chose to partner with us."

Accent Software International's Accent multilingual word processors allow computer users to work in multiple alphabets under any language version of Windows. Accent supports all of the European languages plus Russian, Turkish, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. Users can type and print in more than 30 languages, mixing any number of languages in the same document.

"Accent is a great product for us, adding value for our customers who need more than just their native language", stated Jan Hauer, European Software Product Manager for Creative Labs. "Accent also solves the localization problem for us by providing one word processing solution for all of these countries", added Hauer.

Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF) was founded in Singapore in 1981, specializing in multilingual media for PCs. In 1989 Creative launched the Sound Blaster, an 8-bit sound card which in one year became the number one selling add-on board for the PC, and in 1992 Creative introduced the Sound Blaster 16. By September 1994 over 6 million Sound Blaster products were in use worldwide.

Accent Software International designs and develops multilingual word processing and Internet software products for retail, corporate, educational, government and OEM customers, and markets these products in more than twenty countries. Founded in 1988, Accent Software International is a publicly-held company (NASDAQ: ACNTF) and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. -0- Accent is a trademark of Accent Software International Ltd. Creative Labs and Sound Blaster are registered trademarks of Creative Labs. All other trademarks are owned by their respective manufacturers.

CONTACT: ACCENT SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL LTD.

Robert Trachtenberg Norman Kreger

General Counsel Director Corporate Communications

011-972-2-793-723, ext. 242 011-972-2-793-723, ext. 243

Internet: Bobt@accent.co.il Internet: Normank@accent.co.il

Home Page Address:

http://www.accentsoft.com

or

WOLFE AXELROD ASSOCIATES

Mona J. Walsh

Gordon H. Wolfe

Joel Herskovits

212-370-4500

e-mail: 76015.440@compuserve.com

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