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I want to get my hands on Yap, “an automated platform that instantly converts anything you say on your cell into text.”I happen to be one of those of dangerous drivers that occasionally texts while in traffic or at a stop light. I can’t wait to have a way to speak into my phone to send texts and search the web. What I wouldn’t give to have this on my 3,000 mile drive back to San Diego.

Here’s some more info from site. So cool!

clipped from www.yapme.com
Yap’s patent pending system allows you to easily send text messages by simply speaking them into a mobile application. Why did Yap decide to tackle that first? 66% of teens text while driving! Our co-founders sister just entered undergrad as a freshman, she’s commuting to/from campus, and that stat made them shudder given her short attention span. It made prioritizing this work easy.
It also supports a number of other creative use cases: send wall posts to your friends on Facebook, tell them where you are on Twitter, find the nearest sushi using Google, get info on the latest movie from Yahoo!, read what’s up on Digg or Newsvine, research something on Wikipedia, check out fresh videos on YouTube, or search Amazon/eBay for more gear. One day you’ll also be connect to most IM networks on the planet.

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  • http://fadetoplay.com tyfn

    Cool that you are interested in Social media. So am I. It you hear about any cool apps/betas I should try, let me know. Would love to hear your opinion about Facebook today vs. 1 year ago or 2 years ago (if you were on it then). I liked it when it was student-only although I value the NewsFeed information I gather from my social media/emerging tech friends in the city.

    Don’t know if you are into conferences, but you may want to look at Northern Voice. I submitted a speaker proposal earlier in the week. I have attended the last 2 years and it is one of my favourite meetups of the year.

    http://2008.northernvoice.ca/

    Phillip (tyfn)

  • http://srcasm.com srcasm

    Jenn,
    In the meantime, you might want to check out Jott (www.jott.com). They provide voice-to-text and voice-to-blog features as well. Figured I’d give you a heads up. Talk to you later.

  • Jenn

    srcasm, after a quick look at Jott and the techcrunch review I definitely think it’s worth checking out, but I’m sold on the Yap hype and think it’s voice recognition capabilities appear to be really amazing.

    tyfn, thanks for the link I will definitely check out that conference. As for Facebook, not much I can add to that convo since I was definitely one of the last to start using it. I was resolved not to create another profile as I had been using MySpace for years and didn’t want to start all over, but I broke down about month ago.

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