Nuance Powers Voice Portal From Telemar, Brazil's Largest Telecommunications Provider; Telemar's Vocall Portal is Brazil's First, Expects One Million Users by December 2001

Business Wire, June 19, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001

Nuance (Nasdaq:NUAN), the leader in Voice Web software, today announced that Telemar, Brazil's largest telecommunications provider, launched its voice portal, Vocall, which is powered by Nuance's speech recognition software and built on technology from GMK Ltda., Brazil's largest provider of IVR solutions. The portal is designed for those who want to access Web-based information and communication applications from anywhere, at any time. All access is provided by voice, enabling users to listen to e-mail messages, review day planner entries, inquire about weather and access additional services from any telephone.

Telemar's adoption of this voice-enabled application is part of the company's accessibility initiative. This effort reflects a worldwide trend favoring voice-enabled applications as key value-added services from telecommunications providers. The service is currently available throughout Brazil. Telemar expects to reach 500,000 users by July 2001 and one million by December 2001.

About Nuance

Nuance is the leader in Voice Web software -- speech recognition, voice authentication, text-to-speech and voice-browsing products that make the information and services of enterprises, telecommunications networks and the Internet accessible from any telephone. Every day, millions of people interact with Nuance systems at companies like Japan Telecom, OnStar, Qwest Wireless, Sears and UBS. Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, with global sales offices and partners supporting solutions in multiple languages around the world. For more information about Nuance, visit www.nuance.com or call 1-888-NUANCE-8.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, for example, those relating to the anticipated success and rate of customer adoption of Telemar's Vocall voice portal. There is no assurance that the results contemplated by any forward-looking statements will be realized. The following factors, risks and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described or implied in this press release's forward-looking statements: the risk that Telemar's Vocall voice portal service will not reach the anticipated adoption rate in the suggested timeframe; the risk that Nuance's customers will be unable to develop or commercialize successfully products or services that use Nuance's products; the risk that products and services based upon Nuance's products are not commercially accepted by consumers; and other factors described in Nuance's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to Nuance's last-filed prospectus and annual report on form 10-K. Nuance does not undertake to update any oral or written forward-looking statements that may be made by or on behalf of Nuance.