“Yap9” was a prototype of a unified mobile client that connected to Yap’s freeform speech recognition platform. It contained a threaded text messaging application that allowed you to keep in touch with friends, family, and coworkers in realtime: by simply saying something, your words would then be converted into text within seconds, and sent out. Additionally, it unified the mobile web by allowing you to instantly access web services just by talking. You could search Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, YouTube, or interact with Facebook without having to type on your phone’s miniature keypad.
Since it’s unveiling at the TechCrunch 2007 event, this product has morphed into a white label play. Yap now powers diverse messaging clients as it repurposed itself as a B2B supplier.
