With the Mobile World Congress fast approaching, Vlingo deemed it timely to introduce the full range of products and services it plans to introduce in the coming year under its “Virtual Assistant” marketing umbrella. In so doing, it is taking advantage of the ability to anticipate a user’s intention based on the past activities of its seven million users.

Today, Vlingo counts Google, YellowPages.com, foursquare, Fandango, Kayak and OpenTable as partners in its efforts both to complete tasks and to monetize usage. By the end of the year, the roadmap will lead it to form more partnerships in the European theater. In the spirit of multimodality and multi-device support, the company also spelled out plans to grow its presence on tablet devices beyond the Samsung Galaxy and to grow the base of applications and services that drivers take advantage of in their cars. The company expects to fulfill the promise of a “voice remote controls” in conjunction with major TV manufacturers and its product managers expect to see the venerable PC playing an important role by providing the same Virtual Assistant services that are available on mobile phones and in cars.

Vlingo also plans to expand geographically by adding languages to its roster. It already supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Mandarin but has plans to add more (unspecified) languages in calendar year 2011.

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Tags: Mobile Speech Apps, Vlingo, Multimodal Services, Virtual Personal Assistants