Yap Taps Caringo

Caringo, Inc announced that Yap, Inc. has selected the company to provide the content storage infrastructure for Yap’s next-generation mobile speech-to-text platform.

Yap will utilize Caringo’s CAStor content storage software built on third-generation content addressable storage (CAS) technology to create a high-performance storage infrastructure with virtually unlimited scalability to support audio and text content derived from Yap’s innovative Automatic Speech Recognition cluster.

Yap enables customers to dictate messages into their mobile devices, which are then instantly converted into text and sent as SMS messages to their recipients. Yap is delivering a socially conscious application recognizing that a significant number of people admit to writing and sending text messages while driving. This new capability allows these consumers to safely text without putting others and themselves at risk. The audio and text messages will be stored on and served from a CAStor storage cluster.

"CAStor was the only storage solution we found that could meet the scalability, cost and performance standards we needed to properly implement our Automatic Speech Recognition platform for telco grade deployments," said Igor Jablokov, CEO of Yap. "Caringo’s approach to content storage and data protection ensures that Yap customers’ voice and text messages will be safe and secure with CAStor."

"Yap has created a truly innovative speech recognition solution with an architecture that takes full advantage of the simplicity and scalability of CAStor," said Mark Goros, Caringo CEO. "We look forward to working with Yap to build the success of the ASR platform."