Yap (company)
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Type of site | Subsidiary |
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Founded | 2006 |
Headquarters | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States |
Founder(s) | Igor R. Jablokov, Victor R. Jablokov |
Chairman | Timothy G. Biltz |
CEO | Igor R. Jablokov |
Industry | Telecommunication |
Products | Speech recognition |
Total equity | US$12 million |
Parent | Amazon |
Website | yapme.com |
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]
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.
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