Fast-Pitch Spotlight: vlingo

 

Congratulations to vlingo, the 1st place winner in AT&T's Fast-Pitch New England! With its ease-of-use, simplicity and versatility for a broad range of users, vlingo is a promising app with potential to succeed and grow in the wireless marketplace. Read on to learn what makes vlingo a killer app.

Company Overview
vlingo Corporation was founded in June 2006 and launched its first product in August 2007. With top-tier investors, including Yahoo!, Charles River Ventures, and Sigma Partners, vlingo is focused on delivering a voice-powered mobile user interface that unlocks access to wireless data services. vlingo allows users to speak or type into any vlingo-enabled text box on a mobile phone and get accurate, easy and consistent access to mobile information, entertainment, and communications. The company employees 39 people and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Solving the Problem of Usability and Discoverability
New applications for mobile phones arrive every day, but discoverability and usability limit consumer adoption. Applications are either difficult to find or too cumbersome to use. vlingo solves this problem by eliminating the need to triple tap on 12 tiny keys. In fact, ninety percent of users that vlingo surveyed prefer speaking over typing on a mobile device. Offering an unconstrained speech user interface, vlingo enables people to simply speak or type into any text entry box with no limits or restrictions on what they can say—vlingo captures each word. vlingo adapts and improves with usage and new users. Based on proprietary speech recognition technology, vlingo does not rely on humans for translations. vlingo executes verbal input from users and returns the text within seconds.

Target Markets
vlingo works with wireless operators, OEMs, and mobile application providers. vlingo allows these providers to quickly and inexpensively voice-enable any application—without custom engineering or in-house speech expertise. Unlike conventional voice recognition technologies that require individual purpose-built applications and rely on constrained grammars and scripted interactions, vlingo's open approach eliminates a traditionally costly and intensive manual effort.

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