Yap (company)

Yap Speech Cloud was a multimodal speech recognition system developed by American technology company Yap Inc. It offered a fully cloud-based speech-to-text transcription platform that was used by customers such as Microsoft.[1]

Yap Inc.
Type of site
Subsidiary
Founded2006
HeadquartersCharlotte, North Carolina, United States
Founder(s)Igor R. Jablokov, Victor R. Jablokov
ChairmanTimothy G. Biltz
CEOIgor R. Jablokov
IndustryTelecommunication
ProductsSpeech recognition
Total equityUS$12 million
ParentAmazon
URLyapme.com

The Company was a contestant at the inaugural TechCrunch conference[2] and was subsequently acquired by Amazon in September 2011[3] to help develop products such as Alexa Voice Service, Echo,[4] and Fire TV.

See also

References
  1. Could Yap Be The Next Big Speech Recognition Player?
  2. TechCrunch 40 Session 2: Mobile & Communications.
  3. Amazon Has Acquired Yap, the Closest Thing to a Siri Clone It Can Find.
  4. The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo.
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