Leading Assistive Mobile Phone Screen Reader Features SIM-Based Licensing, Significant Audio Enhancements, DAISY2Go and Support for Quickword

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced the availability of TALKS&ZOOMS 4.0, Nuance Mobile’s assistive software that converts displayed text on a handset into highly intelligible speech and magnified content for blind or visually impaired mobile consumers. The latest version of TALKS&ZOOMS features a new text-to-speech (TTS) audio system for Series 60 third-edition phones that enables users to look up or enter contacts, find notes, access and update calendar appointments, manage multiple calls, mute and hold calls, and more – all while the phone is already being used for a call.

With Nuance’s TALKS&ZOOMS, blind and visually impaired users are able to take advantage of the many features found on today’s popular mobile phones, including contact directories, caller ID, text messaging, help files, access to Web browsers, and other screen content. And TALKS&ZOOMS 4.0 enables consumers to choose the TTS software they want to use to power all updated features, including Nuance’s trusted Vocalizer Mobile and ETI-Eloquence.

In addition to the new robust advanced audio capabilities, TALKS&ZOOMS 4.0 also features:

• SIM-Based Licensing: TALKS&ZOOMS can now be licensed for a GSM SIM card, offering users the freedom to leverage the software on as many handsets as they like where the same SIM card is used. Alternatively, TALKS&ZOOMS can still be licensed to a handset, used with an unlimited amount of SIM cards.

• DAISY2Go Audio Book Player: TALKS&ZOOMS 4.0 includes DAISY2Go, a Digital Accessible Information SYstem’s (DAISY) text and audio book player that enables users to read content right from their mobile phone. DAISY books have the benefits of regular audio books, but they offer extras, like embedded navigation information, enhanced content, and synchronization.