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Vlingo s speech recognition for Blackberry officially outcools the iPhone for now

Posted on June 25, 2008

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. Yap s goal was to get there eventually. But Vlingo, which launches such an application today, has left Yap and even Microsoft s heavyweight TellMe choking on dust.While voice-activated search and directory services have been around for a while TellMe launched its version las...

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blackberry , microsoft , mobile , sms , yahoo