| Yap Inc. | |
| Foundation: | 2006 |
| Founder: | Igor R. Jablokov, Victor R. Jablokov |
| Ceo: | Igor R. Jablokov |
| Chairman: | Timothy G. Biltz |
| Industry: | Telecommunication |
| Location: | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States |
| Parent: | Amazon |
| Products: | Speech recognition |
| Equity: | US$12 million |
| Type: | Subsidiary |
| Homepage: | yapme.com |
Yap Speech Cloud was a multimodal speech recognition system developed by American technology company Yap Inc. It offered a fully cloud-based speech-to-text transcription platform that was used by customers such as Microsoft.[1]
The Company was a contestant at the inaugural TechCrunch conference[2] and was subsequently acquired by Amazon in September 2011[3] to help develop products such as Alexa Voice Service, Echo,[4] and Fire TV.