founded by speech to text pioneers mike phillips later co founder and ceo of sense labs inc 1 and john nguyen in 2006 . 2 it was best known for its intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator also named vlingo which functioned as a personal assistant application for symbian android iphone blackberry and other smartphones . 3 vlingo was acquired by speech recognition giant nuance communications in 2012 . 4 the application uses a natural language user interface to answer questions make recommendations and perform actions by delegating requests to various applications . 3 vlingo find and other iterations were known as first to market innovators in speech to text recognition . 5 with adaptive hierarchical language models vlingo improves its speech to text recognition as it learns a user s speech and search habits . 6 it was the first technology of its kind to use adaptive hierarchical language models to learn from the corrections a user would make . 5 vlingo servers analyze speech queries and send any recommendations or possible corrections back to the user . 6 this technology allows users to text search and navigate smartphones without typing . 3 vlingo had its own application with over 5 million users in addition to partnerships with a number of companies including yahoo 7 samsung 8 rim and nokia . 9 vlingo ships by default on samsung galaxy s2 devices 10 and vlingo worked with samsung to create s voice personal assistant available on the samsung galaxy s3 and newer samsung galaxy devices . 8 vlingo also powered early versions of siri before siri was acquired by apple . 11 contents 1 acquisition 2 privacy violations 3 awards 4 references 5 external links acquisition edit nuance communications a large software company had been trying to acquire vlingo since the company was founded which vlingo rejected . as vlingo became successful nuance launched a series of patent lawsuits to attempt to weaken the company . vlingo countered with patent lawsuits of its own . after three years of patent battles the first lawsuit went to court and vlingo won . at this point nuance increased its offer price for the company and the vlingo board of directors agreed to sell the company . 4 vlingo was acquired by nuance in december 2011 for undisclosed terms . 12 privacy violations edit in january 2012 androidpit discovered that vlingo sends packets of information containing the users gps co ordinates imei unique device identifier contact list and the title of every song stored on the device back to nuance without proper warning in the privacy policy . users of vlingo have also found the program sending data to servers at the dhs.gov domain name . 13 14 15 16 concerning the privacy violations vlingo stated that the improper warnings in the privacy policies were due to some privacy policies being out of date or correct for some versions of the app but incorrect for others . vlingo stated that they would update the privacy policy accordingly . furthermore they noted that a software bug was responsible in some situations for sending more data from users phones to vlingo than intended and stated their intentions to fix such bugs immediately . 17 awards edit winner of 2008 local mobile applications developers winner from at & t. 18 winner of 2008 best mobile application from speech technology magazine . 18 recognized as one of the area s best places to work by bbj in 2008 . 18 recognized as one of the fierce 15 wireless companies of 2008 from fiercewireless . 18 recognized as one of ten firestarters from future in review in 2008 . 18 winner of 2008 northeast 100 top private company from alwayson . 18 recognized as one of the top emerging mobile players to watch in 2008 in 2008 from idc . 18 winner of 2009 must have utilities app of the year from ovi daily app . 18 winner of 2009 blackberry rookie of the year from handango . 18 winner of 2009 mobie award best speech recognition . 18 winner of 2011 mashable award most innovative app . 19 references edit kirsner scott . cambridge s sense labs starts production of new device to track what s happening at home . beta boston . the boston globe . retrieved 20 october 2015 . fitzgerald michael 2008 01 27 . the coming wave of gadgets that listen and obey . the new york times . issn 0362 4331 . retrieved 2016 01 20 . a b c banks courtney . a safer way to text on the road . the wall street journal . the wall street journal . retrieved 23 january 2010 . a b nuance plays hardball in voice recognition . bloombergview . retrieved 2016 01 20 . a b vlingo s adaptive speech recognition promises an end to typing on your phone keyboard xconomy . xconomy . xconomy.com . retrieved 2016 01 20 . a b talk to the phone mit technology review . mit technology review . retrieved 2016 01 20 . evans katie . yahoo and vlingo partner to offer voice enabled mobile search . retrieved 2016 01 20 . a b vlingo partners with samsung to bring its virtual assistant to all galaxy s ii smartphones vlingo blog vlingo . blog.vlingo.com . retrieved 2016 01 20 . handset maker partnerships native voice applications vlingo . www.vlingo.com . retrieved 2016 01 20 . http blog.vlingo.com vlingo samsung galaxys2 5 reasons to scrap our patent system 1 . apple s siri . forbes . retrieved 2016 01 20 . murphy samantha . nuance acquires voice recognition competitor vlingo . mashable . mashable inc. retrieved 20 december 2011 . tilton aaron . vlingo privacy breach data sent to remote servers without consent . androidpit . androidpit . retrieved 23 january 2012 . bloom steven . are you using vlingo your privacy may be at risk . androidpit . androidpit . retrieved 26 january 2012 . copper daniel . vlingo co founder explains data collection issues . engadget . engadget . retrieved 26 january 2012 . davies allan . joerg nientiedt google . joerg nientiedt . joerg nientiedt . retrieved 23 september 2012 . vlingo responds to privacy issues raised about its android app . android central . retrieved 2016 01 20 . a 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