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Voice Recognition Software for Mobile Phones announced by Vlingo

Vlingo Vlingo Corporation, a speech recognition software vendor, has introduced the limited beta version of its voice-powered interface for mobile phones thanks to the innovative speech recognition technology conceptualized by the company. Now users will be free from the painstaking triple-tapping to text, search or download mobile content from their phones, since with Vlingo users can gain consumers control over the mobile Internet with the power of their voices. There is no need for the users to change the manner in which they speak, or memorize a list of commands. Users can say what they want, how they want, and Vlingo delivers the results – word for word. Great news for carriers and mobile application providers as Vlingo opens the long awaited demand for mobile data services across all applications, delivering unrealized revenue opportunities.

Vlindo has been founded by industry-pioneering speech scientist Mike Phillips, who was the co- founder of SpeechWorks, now Nuance along with John Nguyen, and has been funded by Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Vlingo was chiefly developed to strengthen these latest technical enhancements in the mobile market. The CEO of the company is Dave Grannan, who before this held the post of general manager at Nokia.

Dave Grannan stated, “Consumers haven’t completely embraced mobile data services yet for one simple reason — they’re being held hostage by 12 tiny keys.” Grannan added, “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.”

With Vlingo’s voice-powered interface users get the ability to speak or type into any Vlingo- enabled text box on their mobile phones, enabling them to get access to all the information, entertainment and communication applications offered through today’s mobile services.

The convenient Vlingo offers the following:

  • No limits on what you can say. Until now, even the most “advanced” speech-enabled applications force the user to go through specific sets of steps or a series of commands to accomplish a task (for example, for most 411 services, the user first must speak the city/state and then the name of the business). As against this, vlingo has no application- specific grammars or scripted interactions. Vlingo allows users to say what they want, when they want.
  • The Vlingo approach considers what each user has spoken in the particular text box within a particular application, and dynamically leverages this knowledge to constantly develop accuracy for that user, and the entire community.
  • The ability to freely mix typing and talking. In situations where people prefer to enter text using the keypad on the phone, vlingo allows them to freely move between keypad entry and speech entry. — Simple API for application integration. The vlingo technology makes use of a lightweight library, which can run on the majority of 3G and multi-media enabled phones to allow easy integration into a wide range of applications.

    • Powering the latest technology dubbed Hierarchical Language Models (HLMs), Vlingo makes it possible for carriers and mobile application providers to promptly and economically voice-enable any application, without custom engineering or in-house speech expertise. As against traditional voice recognition technologies that need individual purpose-built services and depend on strict grammars and scripted interactions, Vlingo’s open approach discards a conventionally costly and severe manual effort.

    A limited beta of Vlingo is available right away on the Vlingo website. All you need to do is go on the official www.vlingomobile.com and click on the download tab. A demo is available at www.vlingomobile.com/demo.


    Posted on 22 August, 2007 By Feature Editor
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