Final MobileBeat nominees: mBit, Gupshup, Vlingo, Yap, Greystripe, Soonr, BIM
The countdown to the MobileBeat2008 conference continues.
Today we’re adding seven more companies to the list of nominees for best mobile company, or the one with the biggest, baddest idea and that has a decent chance at being a business hit. The top 30 winners will… Continue Reading
Vlingo’s speech recognition for Blackberry officially outcools the iPhone — for now
Vlingo, a Cambridge, Mass, speech recognition company, has just launched an awesome voice-powered interface for Blackberry smartphones.
In a recent post about speech-to-SMS provider Yap, we posited that the ultimate mobile interface would let us navigate a phone using a combination of voice and manual input…. Continue Reading
Yahoo teams with Vlingo to offer voice search
Updated
With just-announced improvements to its mobile service, Yahoo oneSearch gives customers the ability to search the web by simply speaking into their phones. To make this happen, Yahoo is partnering with startup Vlingo and has led Vlingo’s $20 million second round of funding.
Yahoo isn’t the… Continue Reading
Vlingo: tell your phone what to do
Mobile phone interfaces are notoriously difficult to use — hence, the hype around Apple’s iPhone and its unique two-fingered method of navigating its mobile web browser.
Vlingo has a different answer to clumsy mobile interfaces: speech recognition technology so sophisticated that you can speak what you… Continue Reading