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PEABODY, Mass. -- Server-Based Toolkit Lowers Transcription Costs and Increases Productivity by Incorporating Speech Recognition into Existing Clinical Documentation Systems

ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), the global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R) 7 Software Development Kit (SDK) Server Edition, the latest release of the world's leading dictation SDK. This new release supports server-based speech recognition of recorded dictation and is designed to increase productivity and lower costs in healthcare and other transcription intensive industries. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition complements the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Client Edition, which is the leading speech recognition SDK for integration into client workstation applications.

North American medical transcription costs have reached more than $10 billion annually, with nearly every healthcare facility employing or outsourcing significant resources to handle this manual process. Through the use of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition, medical transcriptionists will be able to receive an automatically generated draft report, which then only requires editing - a process that can increase transcriptionist productivity rates by 50% or more. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition is designed to be integrated into clinical documentation systems by transcription service organizations, healthcare ISVs, and systems integrators.

"As costs spiral upward, healthcare organizations are now more than ever concerned with streamlining their operations. Using speech recognition to improve the manual transcription process is an alternative that is gaining tremendous momentum in the healthcare market because it can offer both significant cost and time savings," said Frank Reeves, CEO of Expresiv Technologies, a provider of clinical documentation automation software. "We are pleased to offer the functionality provided by the Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK Server Edition as part of our comprehensive solution. We believe it offers both the highest accuracy and the right set of features to enable a powerful integration of speech recognition into the process of creating and managing clinical documentation. Ultimately, that saves our customers time and money while allowing them to focus more on patient care."

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