14 DAY TRIAL // Vlingo Corporation just launched a limited beta version of vlingo, a breakthrough voice-powered interface for mobile devices based on a revolutionary speech recognition technology. With vlingo you can forget about annoying tapping on the tiny keypads of your handheld, as it enables you to control, by voice, your phone. You don't have to change the way you speak nor memorize a rigid list of commands, because vlingo lets you say anything and, thanks to the revolutionary technology, it really understands you.
Vlingo is a voice interface that provides direct access to wireless data services and can work with any mobile application. Just speak to your mobile phone in order to enter search terms or any other text you want.
Vlingo comes with features that no other voice recognition technology has. It's the most accurate system of its kind - it takes into consideration what a user had previously spoken, leveraging this knowledge for a continuous accuracy improvement. There are no limits on what a user can say, meaning you don't have to follow a specific set of commands or steps in order to complete a task. The lightweight library used by vlingo is compatible with most of the 3G and multimedia phones, allowing easy integration into various applications. In case you prefer entering text using the phone's keypad, vlingo lets you switch between speech entry and keypad entry at any time.
Dave Grannan, Chief Executive Officer of Vlingo Corporation, said: "Consumers haven't completely embraced mobile data services yet for one simple reason - they're being held hostage by 12 tiny keys. Vlingo removes this obstacle of the past by giving consumers control over their phones with the power of speech. By opening up the potential for these mobile data services, vlingo gives carriers and mobile application providers a quantum leap in usability and the corresponding revenue opportunities with the only voice user interface 'plug in' on the market."
Taking advantage of a new technology (named adaptive Hierarchical Language Models), vlingo enables mobile carriers and applications providers to voice-enable any application, quickly and with low costs, allowing users to get fast and accurate access to data and applications.
The beta version of vlingo can be downloaded from the Vlingo website. Until a non-beta version will be released, we can only think about the changes that vlingo can bring in the evolution of mobile data and services. What's for sure is that it is a one-of-a-kind interface that will probably have a huge success.
Vlingo Corporation is founded by John Nguyen and speech scientist Mike Phillips and it's funded by Sigma Partners and Charles River Ventures.