Vlingo

http://www.vlingo.com/

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The Vlingo Virtual Assistant turns your words into action. Vlingo combines voice to text technology with its "intent engine" to help you quickly complete your desired action. ooking for directions to a restaurant? Need to do a quick mobile search for information on bee allergies? Can’t find the number for a plumber? Want to update your social status to tell everyone about your new puppy? Maybe you need to send a quick text to a colleague because you’re running late for a meeting? Or perhaps you’re looking for a safer alternative to texting while driving? Vlingo can do all of these things for you, and so much more.

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Employees

51-200

Founded date

2006

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Jan 9, 2012	Only at CES: Could Tweets Replace Ads?	It’s called engagement, it’s the catchphrase behind one of ReadWriteWeb’s top technologies of the year, and it’s emerging as one of the latest conceptual technologies on the floor of CES 2012 this week. In the back of ad executives’ minds d...
Dec 20, 2011	After Years Of Patent Litigation, Nuance Acquires Vlingo	In what Vlingo CEO Dave Grannan calls a ‘good outcome’ on Twitter, the voice-to-text technology company has just been acquired by speech recognition king Nuance. Notably, Nuance has repeatedly sued Vlingo over patent infringement – and trie...
Dec 20, 2011	Nuance to acquire rival Vlingo to build a better Siri	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Voice technology firm Nuance has agreed to buy its top rival Vlingo for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced this morning. Nuanc...
Oct 13, 2011	5 Siri-like apps for iPhone 4, iPod, and iPad	One of the biggest puzzlers surrounding the release of iOS 5 is the iPhone 4S’s exclusive ability to use Siri, the voice-controlled virtual assistant. At first we had assumed that Siri requires special hardware — the A5 processor and oodles...
Jun 24, 2011	Nuance Slaps Vlingo With False Advertising Lawsuit As Latest Move In Legal Battle	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints The patent litigation between Burlington, MA-based Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) and Cambridge, MA-based Vlingo is nothing new. A false advertising lawsuit is, though. ...
Jun 9, 2011	Nuance Slaps Vlingo With Another Patent Lawsuit Over Voice Recognition Technology	Well, this is interesting. Nuance, a company that develops imaging and voice recognition technologies, is once again suing competitor Vlingo, which also develops a voice search technology and is backed by Yahoo, AT&T and Charles River V...
Mar 30, 2011	Voice blogging gets a boost as Bubble Motion nabs $10M	Voice and text messaging provider Bubble Motion today announced it has pulled in $10 million in a second round of funding, as the company attempts to work on new tools for 800 million available mobile users. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based comp...
Nov 24, 2010	Bubble Motion puts smartphone users one step closer to voice SMS with new patent	Voice and text messaging provider Bubble Motion today announced it has been awarded a patent for its work creating a mobile messaging system known as “Voice SMS.” The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said the patent will now allow users to c...
Oct 13, 2010	New Apps for Your Smartphone, October Edition	There are some 225,000 mobile applications for the iPhone now and 70,000 for Android, so every so often we like to highlight a few that have caught our attention. This latest edition of our favorite smartphone apps includes a few in testing...
Sep 2, 2010	Android Users Can Now Check In To Foursquare By Using Their Voice	Thanks to a partnership with Vlingo, owners of Android 2.0 or higher-equipped phones can now check in to Foursquare and update their status on Facebook and Twitter simply by speaking into their phones. To try it out, download the free Vling...
Jul 26, 2010	Vlingo Buys Patents from Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures As Defense In Nuance Lawsuit—Hopes for “Horse Trade”	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Vlingo, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of voice-to-text software, has taken a defensive move to help protect it against a lawsuit filed by speech software giant Nuance Communi...
Jul 23, 2010	Influencing Innovation: The Americans With Disabilities Act	Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a code of law that has influenced society and tech companies in interesting ways already, and is expanding to influence them even more. One recen...
Jul 15, 2010	Vlingo's SuperDialer For Android	Voice search on mobile phones is increasingly becoming a viable alternative to pecking away on your tiny, touchscreen keyboard. Google has great voice search in both its iPhone and Android apps. Apple just bought Siri, which is a voice-powe...
Dec 30, 2009	Top Ten Mobile Voice Searches Of 2009 Are Action-Oriented	Mobile search and general Web search are two different beasts, especially when it comes to voice search, which is becoming increasingly popular. The list of the top ten mobile voice searches below by mobile voice app startup Vlingo confirms...
Dec 30, 2009	Voice-to-text company Spinvox to announce sale to Nuance, source says [confirmed]	[This is confirmed: Spinvox just announced a sale to Nuance in a blog post, and in a press release. The price is $102.5 million, comprising $66 million in cash and $36.5 million in common stock..] Spinvox, the London company that lets you t...
Dec 30, 2009	Voice-to-text company Spinvox to announce sale to Nuance, source says [confirmed]	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! [This is confirmed: Spinvox just announced a sale...
Sep 16, 2009	New Speech Recognition Engine Under the Hood at Vlingo; Startup Dumps IBM and Nuance for AT&T	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Vlingo, the Cambridge, MA-based startup that makes a suite of speech-to-text applications used by millions of iPhone, BlackBerry, and Nokia mobile device owners, is about to g...
May 21, 2009	Not safe: Poll finds 1-in-4 Americans text while driving	A new survey shows that 1 in 4 Americans text while driving. That’s not good news for road safety, no sir. The survey, which was conducted by Vlingo, says that 26 percent of people admit to texting while driving—the implication is that plen...
Apr 8, 2009	Xconomy Forum Speakers: Exciting But Tricky Times for Mobile Entrepreneurs	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints A standing-room-only crowd gathered yesterday for Xconomy’s Forum on the Future of Mobile Innovation in New England, hosted by Microsoft at its gorgeous new New England Resear...
Mar 30, 2009	CRV raises $320M — proves not all venture capital has dried up	Charles River Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in web companies like Twitter, but also software and networking companies such as BigBand Networks and Netezza, has raised $320 million in fresh money. The new fund, CRV’s 14t...
Dec 3, 2008	Speech Recognition on the iPhone, Via Vlingo	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Back in June, Cambridge, MA speech-recognition startup Vlingo rolled out software that lets Blackberry owners run their devices using voice commands instead of their thumbs—op...
Oct 29, 2008	Vlingo Upgrades Blackberry App	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Cambridge, MA, startup Vlingo today launched a drastically improved version of its voice command and speech-to-text interface for RIM Blackberry smartphones, first released in...
Jun 25, 2008	Vlingo’s Latest App Gives Blackberrying Thumbs a Rest	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Cambridge, MA, startup Vlingo announced back in February that it had built its speech recognition software into Yahoo’s oneSearch mobile search portal. Thanks to that collabor...
Jun 17, 2008	Nuance Suit Against Vlingo Could Shut Down Yahoo’s Voice-Driven Mobile Search Service	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Story Updated 4:40 p.m. 6/18/06; see below] If a Texas district court grants an injunction sought by Burlington, MA-based Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), it could force...
May 21, 2008	Vlingo Survey Finds Epidemic of “DWT”—Driving While Texting	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Text messaging, a longstanding habit among many Asian and European mobile phone users, is finally catching on with Americans. A major survey commissioned by Cambridge, MA-base...
Apr 3, 2008	Vlingo’s CEO Speaks on the Yahoo Deal	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Yesterday Yahoo smiled upon Harvard Square, not only picking Dunster Street startup Vlingo to provide a speech recognition system for its oneSearch mobile search program, but ...
Apr 2, 2008	Yahoo! unveils plans for voice-enabled mobile search	Marco Boerries, EVP Yahoo! I just sat in on a Yahoo! press conference here at CTIA and learned a little more about the company’s plans to integrate its “oneSearch 2.0” features into mobile phones. The three key elements that Yahoo! is empha...

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FAQ about Vlingo

When was Vlingo founded?

Vlingo was founded in 2006.

What has the press written about Vlingo?

Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning Vlingo, among them “Only at CES: Could Tweets Replace Ads?” (Jan 9, 2012) and “After Years Of Patent Litigation, Nuance Acquires Vlingo” (Dec 20, 2011).

Is Vlingo still active?

Yes, Vlingo is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 12, 2012.