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ScanSoft and SpeechWorks to merge. (Happenings).


ScanSoft, Inc. and Speech Works International, Inc. have announced a definitive agreement for ScanSoft to purchase all of the outstanding common stock of Speech Works. The combination of ScanSoft and SpeechWorks
Nuance Communications has since purchased SpeechWorks.


SpeechWorks was a company founded in the late 1990s in Boston that developed and supported speech-related computer software.
 is expected to result in a global organization with a broad portfolio of speech technologies, applications and services. The company will apply its technologies to produce speech interfaces and solutions and leverage its financial strength and operational discipline to provide customers and partners with standards-based speech applications. The transaction has been approved unanimously by both boards of directors and is subject to the approval of ScanSoft and Speech Works shareholders and various closing conditions including expiration EXPIRATION. Cessation; end. As, the expiration of, a lease, of a contract, or statute.
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 will remain Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ScanSoft. Upon the close of the transaction, Stuart Patterson will become President of ScanSoft.
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Date:Jun 1, 2003
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