Yap, Inc., was quietly merged with a shell corporation owned by Amazon.com on September 8, 2011.
Mobile Speech Apps
West Interactive Partners with Syclo to Addresses Need for Multiplatform Mobile Strategies
Yesterday West Interactive announced a partnership with Syclo, a company whose core products and services simplify and accelerate the process of extending applications to multiple mobile platforms.
No Real Answer to why Google is “Deprecating” its Translation API
Claiming “substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse,” Google has officially “deprecated” its Translate API.
SVOX Downloads Expose a Gender Gap for TTS
SVOX AG reveals interesting details about the mix of “voices” that have been downloaded from the Android marketplace to support navigation applications, ebook reading, game playing, speech-to-speech translation and other talking apps.
Nuance Building its Mobile Developer Community With Expansion into China
Nuance announced that its developer support program is formally expanding to China by adding Mandarin Chinese to a set of languages that already supports US and UK English, European Spanish, European French, German, Italian and Japanese for dictation and search, as well as 35 languages for text-to-speech conversion.
VoiceBox – With Assist from SVOX – Simplifies Spoken Destination Entry on TomTom PNDs
Newly released versions of TomTom personal navigation devices (meaning the GO 2435, GO 2535 and GO LIVE 2535) as well as the VIA Series will enable their owners to use “natural language” to input destination.
A “Truly Hands Free” Speech Sighting at Mobile World Congress
I want to draw your attention to the video below, where a Samsung executive features Vlingo’s Virtual Assistant application running on the Galaxy S II smartphone, which is an Android-based device slated to launch on Vodafone UK’s network later this year.
Vlingo Reveals its 2011 “Virtual Assistant” Roadmap
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.
Waze Adds Voice Features to Crowdsourced Traffic Reporting App
Waze was one of the earliest mashups of crowdsourcing, Maps and Navigation services on an application for Apple’s iOS based devices. It has, over time, added versions for Symbian, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile based devices.
Buy.com’s iPhone App Combines Speech Rec and Barcode Reading
Internet retailer and bargain finder Buy.com reports that over 20,000 people have downloaded the latest version of its iPhone app, since the introduction of its “beta” version last month.