Speech recognition, or IVR, is one of the most watched technologies of the decade. The technology reduces the time and effort associated with traditional texting. With such a convenience as to simply dictate what you have to write, email/text communications is set to explode in the coming years.
Yap, a provider of fully automated, cloud-based speech recognition services, announced that its speech recognition solutions have been selected by Microsoft (News - Alert) to provide speech-to-text capabilities in their Talk to Text mobile application.
The Talk to Text solution from Microsoft was developed for Sprint (News - Alert). The solution enables subscribers to speak their text messages and emails. Talk to Text is available immediately for all Blackberry devices running on the Sprint network.
“Composing text messages and emails can be awkward and tedious. A simple message like ‘I am running thirty minutes late - start the meeting without me’ can take more than fifty keystrokes,” company officials said.
“We are pleased to work with Yap (News - Alert) to provide a useful and engaging mobile service to consumers,” said Vic Bondi, senior director for Sales and Channels Engineering, MSN, said.
Yap speech cloud provides fully automated, high accuracy speech recognition via a simple Web services interface. Using this interface Microsoft has integrated Yap’s speech recognition into its Talk to Text application with just a few lines of code.
“Yap’s speech cloud empowers partners like Microsoft and Sprint to access very high accuracy speech recognition with little effort,” said Igor Jablokov, CEO at Yap. Using a lightweight Web services interface, our speech cloud eliminates complex integration efforts and tedious tuning processes common to traditional speech recognition solutions.”
Service providers and enterprise communications companies use Yap to quickly deploy innovative applications such as voicemail-to-text, mobile messaging, conference call transcription and call mining.
In October 2009, TMCnet reported that Yap’s automated transcription technology was chosen to power a Voice2Text service for a Cincinnati, Ohio-based provider of integrated communications solutions. The technology will be used to provide Cincinnati Bell (News - Alert) wireless customers with the ability to receive voicemail messages via text or E-mail, the report said.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Kelly McGuire