Combination Enables Healthcare Providers to Save Time and Increase Cost Savings and Accelerates Speech Recognition Adoption within the Healthcare Community

LAKE SUCCESS, NY, and PEABODY, Mass., June 2, 2004 - Voicebrook, a leader in speech enabled medical documentation solutions, and ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), the global leader of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that Voicebrook has selected ScanSoft's Dragon NaturallySpeaking® SDK for its VoiceOver™ Enterprise software solution, which enables healthcare providers to dictate directly into their computerized patient record (CPR) systems.

Speech is rapidly becoming a popular and time-saving interface for healthcare providers, enabling them to dramatically reduce transcription costs and provide faster, more accurate documentation for patient records. VoiceOver Enterprise 2.0 is an integrated toolset that adds dictation and voice command features to many of the leading Computerized Patient Record (CPR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Physicians can access their records anytime, anywhere at any of the facility's workstations because the system is integrated directly into their existing network. The result is instant and accurate records that ensure medical information is recorded immediately, not days later.

New York-based Bronx-Lebanon Hospital recently implemented the VoiceOver system, integrating speech recognition into their existing CPR system. A vast teaching hospital system, the facility received more than 810,000 ambulatory and emergency patients last year. Using the Voicebrook VoiceOver system, physicians are able to process their reports more quickly and accurately than ever before - reducing turnaround time from 72 hours to just two hours.

"ScanSoft is recognized as the premier speech technology supplier, and the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK includes features that deploy particularly well in healthcare environments," said E. Ross Weinstein, president and CEO, Voicebrook. "The combination of ScanSoft's technology with our solution provides customers with a practical, easy and efficient way to capture clinical information - ensuring successful integration into existing systems and fast adoption by physicians."

The VoiceOver system has been successfully implemented in countless hospitals and medical practices covering numerous specialties, all resulting in significant ROI and time savings for individuals and departments.

"Voicebrook has a track record and reputation for implementing speech-enabled medical solutions into some of the nation's largest healthcare providers," said John Shagoury, president, ScanSoft Productivity Applications. "We are committed to working with Voicebrook so that they can continue to provide healthcare professionals with leading-edge solutions which help them to be more efficient and realize cost savings while delivering a higher quality of patient care."

About Voicebrook:

Voicebrook is a leading speech recognition technology consultancy and software developer, serving healthcare enterprises throughout the United States. Voicebrook's principals have an unmatched track record of delivering speech recognition solutions that provide financial savings, as well as other important benefits including more natural computer interfaces, increased technology utilization by clinicians, more familiar documentation formats, improved clinical documentation and avoidance of repetitive strain injury (RSI). Voicebrook is an active contributor in regional and national organizations focusing on technology implementation for healthcare, including HIMSS, AHIMA, New York Software Industry Association, and the Long Island Software and Technology Network (Healthcare Special Interest Group). Contact Bill DeStefanis, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit www.voicebrook.com for additional information.

About ScanSoft, Inc.

ScanSoft, Inc. is the global leader of speech and imaging solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes-saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service. For additional information on the company, please visit www.scansoft.com.

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