Vlingo voice recognition now in Apple’s iPhone store

By Galen Moore

Nuance buys Zi Corp. for $35M [February 27, 2009]

Aveksa adds $10M to coffers in C round [February 25, 2009]

Nuance dogged in pursuit of Zi Corp. buyout [February 16, 2009]

Bessemer joins in iPhone app maker’s $3.9M round [February 13, 2009]

Vlingo Corp. announced today its voice-recognition application for the Apple iPhone is available on Apple Inc.’s App Store. The Cambridge company’s voice-powered application enables users to turn spoken commands into Google searches and send status updates to Facebook and Twitter.

Vlingo’s “breakthrough” voice-recognition technology takes the simplicity of the iPhone’s touch-screen interface to a new level, Vlingo CEO Dave Grannan said in a release Wednesday.

Venture-backed Vlingo launched in 2006. Investors Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners participated in the company’s $6.5 million series A round. The two Massachusetts firms were joined by Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) in a $20 million Series B round announced in April.

In June, Burlington-based Nuance Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a competitor in the voice-recognition space, sued Vlingo, alleging patent infringement. That suit is still pending in Texas district court.

Comments

If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.