VIQ Announces Reseller Agreement with Nuance Communications for Dragon Medical Speech Recognition Technology in Australia

MARKHAM, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - April 5, 2016) - VIQ Solutions Inc. ("VIQ", "VIQ Solutions" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:VQS) is pleased to announce that Dataworxs Australia has signed an agreement with Nuance Communications Ireland Limited ("Nuance") for the resale of Nuance's Dragon Medical speech recognition technologies across Australia and New Zealand.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition is 99% accurate 'out of the box' and includes a complete range of medical vocabularies. It allows clinicians to document patient records electronically in real-time providing immediate efficiency to medical practices. The software is used by more than 500,000 physicians worldwide.

VIQ Dataworxs customers in Australia and New Zealand can now seamlessly integrate Nuance's powerful speech recognition capabilities into their VIQ Dataworxs workflow.

"We are very pleased to be partnering with Nuance, the leader in speech recognition technology, to create an industry-leading end-to-end capture and transcription workflow for medical customers," said Daryl Duda, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at VIQ Dataworxs. "Dragon Medical's speech recognition technology, combined with VIQ Dataworxs' sophisticated digital capture and routing workflow creates an unmatched feature set that includes mobility, speech recognition, SaaS, all while maintaining the absolute highest level of digital security and privacy demanded by the medical industry."

"I am thrilled to have VIQ Dataworxs onboard representing our product in Australia. Their depth of sales experience, technical support and existing client base is impressive. We are delighted with the growth plans of VIQ Dataworxs and I look forward to sharing the success of this important partnership in the Australian medical market," said George Salmo, APAC Sales and Channel Partners at Nuance Communications.

"With an ever increasing number of hospitals, doctor's offices and other medical agencies relying on our digital offering across Australia and New Zealand, this represents an enormous opportunity for VIQ Dataworxs," added Sebastien Paré, President and CEO of VIQ Solutions.

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About Nuance Communications, Inc (NUAN)

Nuance Communications is reinventing the relationship between people and technology. Through its voice and language offerings, the company is creating a more human conversation with the many systems, devices, electronics, apps and services around us. Every day, millions of people and thousands of businesses experience Nuance through intelligent systems that can listen, understand, learn and adapt to your life and your work.
For more information, please visit nuance.com.

About VIQ Solutions Inc.

VIQ Solutions is the leading technology and service platform provider for digital evidence capture and content management. Our secure modular software allows customers to onboard the VIQ platform at any stage of their organization's digitization, from the capture of digital content from video and audio devices through to online collaboration, mobility, data analytics and integration with sensors, facial recognition, speech recognition and case management or patient record systems. VIQ's technology leads the industry in security, meeting the highest international standards for digital/cyber security and privacy, including military and medical regulations.

Our solutions are in use in over 20 countries with tens of thousands of users in over 200 government and private agencies including law enforcement, immigration, medical, legal, insurance, courts, and transportation and transcription services. VIQ also provides end to end transcription services to several large government agencies through our Australia-based reporting and transcription partners. VIQ operates worldwide with partners like security integrators, audio-video specialists, and hardware and data storage suppliers. Managing digital media evidence is what we do, and we do it better than anyone else. For more information about VIQ Solutions, please visit www.viqsolutions.com.

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