Yap, cloud-based speech recognition service,
announced that if will provide speech-to-text capabilities in the Microsoft Talk to Text mobile application. Microsoft
developed Talk to Text for Sprint, that lets users to speak
their text messages and emails.
Talk to Text is available immediately for all Blackberry devices running on the Sprint network for free.
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.
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."