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"Our partnership with vlingo combines the industry's most innovative speech recognition service with Call Genie's mobile directory assistance and advertising solutions," said Michael Durance, CEO of Call Genie. "The combination adds enhanced speech recognition capabilities to the CG Product Suite and gives our customers a local mobile search and advertising solution that now includes natural language request support."
Together with Call Genie, vlingo lets mobile phone users say what they want, when they want, without limitations or scripted grammars. Consumers interfacing with Call Genie's CG Product Suite will be able to simply speak using natural language. For example, instead of the traditional "city, state" structure for 411, now a consumer can say, "I am looking for a coffee shop in Seattle near the University of Washington."
Vlingo is a voice-powered user interface that unlocks access to mobile phone wireless data services. Vlingo allows users to speak or type into any vlingo-enabled text box and get accurate, easy and consistent access to all the information, entertainment and communication made possible through today's mobile applications. By giving consumers control of the mobile Internet with the power of their voices, vlingo provides a quantum leap in usability for mobile data services that are currently restricted by limited user interfaces. IDC has named vlingo one of the "Ten Emerging Mobile Players to Watch in 2008." The company secured its venture capital financing from Charles River Ventures, Sigma Partners and Yahoo! Inc. Founded in 2006, vlingo is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Why tap when you can talk? www.vlingo.com.