Yap's Speech Cloud selected by Microsoft to provide speech-to-textcapabilities in its Talk to Text mobile app for Sprint

Provider of cloud-based speech recognition services Yap has announced its selection by Microsoft for providing speech-to-text capabilities in its Talk to Text mobile application. Microsoft developed Talk to Text for Sprint, allowing users 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. Using Microsoft’s Talk to Text application, Sprint subscribers can conveniently speak their messages -- drastically reducing the keystrokes and time needed to compose an email or text message.

“We are pleased to work with Yap to provide a useful and engaging mobile service to consumers,” says Vic Bondi, Senior Director for Sales and Channels Engineering, MSN.

The Yap speech cloud provides fully automated, high accuracy speech recognition via a simple web services interface. Using this simple interface, Microsoft was able to quickly integrate 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 and expense,” says Igor Jablokov, CEO at Yap. “Our speech cloud methodology eliminates complex integration efforts and tedious tuning processes common to traditional speech recognition solutions.”