First Carrier-Deployed Voice-to-SMS Application Hits iPhone App Store

STANFORD, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire/ — ALWAYSON STANFORD SUMMIT — Promptu Systems Corporation today announced that the Italian version of its fully automated voice-to-text messaging application created for Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) is now available to Italian iPhone owners from Apple’s App Store.

Like Promptu’s forthcoming ShoutOUT, dettaSMS lets Italian speakers dictate their text messages in fluent, natural speech, instead of typing on the iPhone’s touch-screen keypad. Transcribed SMS messages can be reviewed, edited and appended to before being sent.

“dettaSMS is the world’s first carrier-deployed voice-to-text SMS iPhone application,” said Giuseppe Staffaroni, Promptu’s CEO. “To insure privacy, security, and scalability, message transcription is completely automatic — no human is involved.”

dettaSMS is integrated with Telecom Italia Mobile’s billing system and built on Promptu’s network speech recognition (NSR(TM)) architecture for speed, accuracy and scalability. Promptu’s fully automated speech recognition delivers high accuracy, low latency and unparalleled security. User privacy is assured because the real-time voice signal is never processed manually.

“We’re looking forward to the U.S. rollout of our products and actively engaging carrier partners in major mobile markets worldwide,” said Staffaroni.

Starting last year the typical U.S. mobile subscriber sent and received more SMS text messages than telephone calls, according to research by Nielsen Mobile. The average mobile customer now sends or receives more than 350 text messages per month, Nielsen reported.

“Voice will increase use of carriers’ already highly lucrative SMS service and attract totally new users, such as baby boomers, who traditionally have not been big texters,” said Staffaroni. “Speaking is just so much easier than typing.”

About Promptu

Promptu Systems Corporation is at the tipping point of a mobile revolution fueled by Voice User Interface (VUI) applications — the most intuitive and natural way to interact with a phone. Created for consumers, carriers, handset providers, and transportation companies, Promptu applications run on the company’s fully automated Network Speech Recognition (NSR(TM)) platform to insure privacy, security, scalability and speed. Promptu applications are available in 40 languages and dialects, can be optimized for regional accents, and support real-time review and editing of transcribed text. Every day thousands of Promptu applications are downloaded worldwide. See how the revolution is being vocalized at: www.promptu.com.

SOURCE Promptu Systems Corporation