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Transcription FIAL - Episode #37

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I received this little piece of #Awesome today Hey   bash.   We   have   problems   with.   If   with   the   people   that   you   can   use   terms   of   the   time,   though.   Does   The.   In   addition,   we're   at   the   the   I   was   with   the   beach   a   right   through   a   skunk   that   I   wait.   Poppers   right   now.   I'm on   my   way   school,   check   it.   But   the   Hey   need   to   put   our   switch   to   the   either.   If   you   do   it.   Thanks. As it turns out, the sender called me shortly thereafter, and now that I know what he was trying to say, I can confidently say, the above makes no sense whatsoever. Automated transc...

So *thats* what happened to Yap!

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Yap was one of the big names in Voice Recognition - powering a lot of the voicemail transcription market -  till they suddenly went silent on 10/20/2011 (Silent Thursday?).  The rumors were rife - everything ranging from software breakdown, to Filipino strike, to (the most baffling one) Sneaky Verizon Ploy.  It turns out the truth was a lot less strange - Amazon bought 'em out to (most likely) embed in the Fire.  Its certainly an anti-Siri ploy, but I guess we'll find out about the Fire rumors Any Day Now...