Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Jawbone selects Yap Speech Cloud for Voice Messaging App

Jawbone selects Yap Speech Cloud for Voice Messaging App
Yap announced today its selection by Jawbone to provide speech-to-text capabilities in its THOUGHTS iPhone application. THOUGHTS allows users to easily send quick voice messages to individuals and groups, without typing or calling. Additionally, for situations when a user may prefer to read a message, audio messages can be transcribed instantly into text. Jawbone THOUGHTS, with Yap’s speech recognition, is available now for download at the Apple iPhone App store.

Composing text messages can be awkward and tedious, particularly while multitasking or distracted. A simple message like ‘let’s get together for dinner tonight’ can require more than 40 keystrokes, taps and swipes. With THOUGHTS, users can conveniently speak their messages requiring drastically fewer keystrokes and less time than typing a text message.

Yap’s Speech Cloud provides fully automated, high accuracy speech recognition via a simple web services interface. Using this interface, Jawbone was able to quickly integrate Yap’s speech recognition into its THOUGHTS application with just a few lines of code. [http://www.desinformado.com]

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