Yap Converts Voicemails to Text for iPhone

SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Yap today announces availability of Yap Voicemail™ for iPhone. The free application automatically converts voicemails into text making it easier and more convenient to access, search and respond to voice messages. iPhone users running iOS4.1 can download Yap Voicemail by going to http://itunes.com/Yap/YapVoicemail.

“Converting voice messages into text revitalizes iPhone’s voicemail experience making it a much more powerful and convenient communications tool”

Yap Voicemail brings a number of important improvements to iPhone’s standard voicemail experience.

Quickly Read Voicemail Messages: Listening to long and tedious voice messages is a common gripe. Now, Yap Voicemail lets users glance at their iPhones to quickly preview messages and determine whether they require immediate attention. In addition, users are able to check their voice message in situations like business meetings or loud settings where listening to messages is not practical.
Find Important Messages Quickly: Instead of listening to each message until finding that critical piece of information, Yap Voicemail lets users type in a few keywords that describe what they are searching. Yap Voicemail displays transcriptions of all of the voice messages that match.
Reply Using Email and Text Messages: Just because someone called and left a message doesn’t mean a return phone call is required. Thanks to reply functionality that is integrated with iPhone's native SMS and email, Yap Voicemail lets users conveniently and quickly respond to voicemail messages via a text message or email.

Yap Voicemail is powered by Yap’s high accuracy, fully automated speech recognition technology. This is the same technology used by wireless carriers and service providers charging as much as $5-$10 per month for voicemail-to-text services. Yap Voicemail offers identical performance at no cost to iPhone users.

“Converting voice messages into text revitalizes iPhone’s voicemail experience making it a much more powerful and convenient communications tool,” says Igor Jablokov, CEO at Yap. “By removing all pricing barriers, this superior service is something all iPhone users can now enjoy.”

To learn more about Yap and its Yap Voicemail application, visit booth #908K at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show floor or contact Tony Carter (tcarter@yapinc.com).

About Yap

Founded in 2006, Yap® pioneered the world's first high accuracy, fully automated cloud-based speech recognition platform. The Company offers a simple, scalable and cost effective approach to implementing advanced speech transcription services. Today, service providers and enterprise communications companies including MetroPCS, Microsoft and Sprint use Yap's Speech Cloud^TM to quickly deploy innovative applications such as voicemail-to- text, mobile messaging, conference call transcription and call mining. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Yap is privately held and institutionally financed by SunBridge Partners and Harbert Venture Partners. For more information, please visit www.yapinc.com.