Yap Speech Cloud was a multimodal

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...

system developed by American technology company Yap Inc. It offered a fully

cloud-based Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multip ...

speech-to-text

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platform that was used by customers such as

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.Could Yap Be The Next Big Speech Recognition Player?
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in September 2011Amazon Has Acquired Yap, the Closest Thing to a Siri Clone It Can Find.
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Alexa Voice Service Amazon Alexa, also known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesiser named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Echo Dot, Echo Studio an ...

Echo In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional to the distance of the reflecting surface from the source and the lis ...

,The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo.
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