(Charlotte, N.C.) Yap, a leading provider of fully automated speech recognition services, announced today that it is powering MetroPCS’ Spanish language Voice Mail to Text service. Using Yap’s speech recognition technology, MetroPCS customers can now enjoy the convenience of reading Spanish voicemail messages. Today, Spanish is the primary language spoken at home by more than 35 million people living in the United States. More than a third of the population in California and Texas speak Spanish. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Yap, the leading provider of fully automated, cloud-based speech recognition services, announced today its selection by Microsoft to provide speech-to-text capabilities in its Talk to Text mobile application. Microsoft developed Talk to Text for Sprint, allowing subscribers to speak their text messages and emails.  Talk to Text is available immediately for all Blackberry devices running on the Sprint network. (more…)

(Apex, N.C.) NCTechNews, North Carolina’s technology news source, is accepting submissions from business and organizations to be listed in the publication’s North Carolina Technology Resources Guide. (more…)

(Apex, N.C.) Strategic messaging and online publishing firm Menzies Consulting, Inc. is providing free advice to early stage drug developers looking to grow their market share. The June 2009 issue of the company’s News You Can Use newsletter features an article with details on low-cost, high-return methods of getting in front of the biotechnology marketplace in a down economy. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Yap, developer of the world’s first fully automated speech-to-text hosted platform for communications service providers, today announced the availability of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the speech-enablement of iPhone applications. The Yap SDK for the iPhone gives developers a simple interface to rapidly voice-enable existing mobile applications such as email, instant/text messaging, search, social networking, voicemail-to-text and others. (more…)