Yap (company)
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| Type | 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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- Companies based in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Companies established in 2006
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- Speech recognition
- Technology companies disestablished in 2011
- Technology companies established in 2006
- Technology companies of the United States
- Telecommunications companies of the United States
