0000950135-06-000622 Sample Contracts

EIGHTH LOAN MODIFICATION AGREEMENT
Loan Modification Agreement • February 9th, 2006 • Nuance Communications, Inc. • Services-prepackaged software

This Eighth Loan Modification Agreement (this “Loan Modification Agreement”) is entered into as of this 29th day of December, 2005, by and between SILICON VALLEY BANK, a California-chartered bank, with its principal place of business at 3003 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, California 95054 and with a loan production office located at One Newton Executive Park, Suite 200, 2221 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02462 (“Bank”) and NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS INC, formerly known as SCANSOFT, INC., a Delaware corporation with offices at 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 (“Borrower”).