| Nuance Announces 4th Annual V-World; Preeminent Voice Conference to be Held in San Diego 
 MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001--Nuance (Nasdaq:NUAN), the leader in Voice Web software, today announced plans for the 4th annual V-World(TM), an event dedicated to the speech recognition software industry. The four-day event will be held at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, San Diego, Calif., May 20-23, 2001, and is themed "The Voice Web: Open for Business." V-World is sponsored by BeVocal, Dialogic, an Intel Company, Gold Systems, Natural Microsystems, and Tellme. Other sponsors include: Avaya, Motorola, Syntellect, Intervoice-Brite and Sierra Atlantic. To register for the conference, visit www.nuance.com/conference or call 910/452-0442.
 
 V-World is designed for anyone interested in voice-enabling enterprise, telecommunications and Internet applications. The conference offers targeted sessions for business executives and managers, expert and novice speech application developers, and integrators of speech solutions. Each session features customer presentations, panel discussions and informative case studies related to the development and deployment of speech recognition and voice authentication applications. Executives, managers, developers, marketers and salespeople representing call centers, service providers, e-businesses, interactive voice response (IVR) platform providers, dot-com companies, OEMs, VARs and system integrators are all encouraged to attend.
 
 Register Now
 
 The V-World Conference is open to people interested in learning more about the Voice Web. Accredited press and analysts can register by contacting Ruben Pulido at Benjamin Group/BSMG Worldwide by calling 408/559-6090 ext. 326 or via e-mail at ruben-pulido@benjamingroup.com.
 
 About Nuance
 
 Nuance is the leader in Voice Web software -- speech recognition, voice authentication and text-to-speech 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 blue chip companies like BeVocal, Lycos, Merrill Lynch, Nomura Securities, Sprint PCS, and Tellme Networks. Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. 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.
 
 CONTACT:
 
 Nuance, Menlo Park
 
 Jennifer Yanez-Pastor, 650/847-7104
 
 jyp@nuance.com
 
 or
 
 Benjamin Group/BSMG Worldwide
 
 Angie Snyder, 415/352-2628 ext. 603
 
 asnyder@bsmg.com
 
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