not meet wikipedia s general notability guideline . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources yap company news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message yap inc. type subsidiary founded 2006 headquarters charlotte north carolina united states founder s igor r. jablokov victor r. jablokov chairman timothy g. biltz ceo igor r. jablokov industry telecommunication products speech recognition total equity us 12 million parent amazon website 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 . see also edit evi software google voice ivona nuance communications siri spinvox tellme networks vlingo yext references edit could yap be the next big speech recognition player techcrunch 40 session 2 mobile & communications . amazon has acquired yap the closest thing to a siri clone it can find . the real story of how amazon built the echo . v t e amazon.com people current jeff bezos tony hsieh christopher north werner vogels gregg zehr former rick dalzell brian mcbride david risher ram shriram tom szkutak brian valentine facilities amazon tower i amazon tower ii products and services websites a9.com abebooks alexa internet amapedia askville bookfinder cdnow china curse the book depository dash diapers.com digital photography review endless.com fresh goodreads internet movie database box office mojo withoutabox junglee.com local marketplace payments planetall shelfari twitch.tv wireless woot.com zappos web services ami cloudfront dynamodb ebs ec2 mturk product advertising api rds s3 ses simpledb sqs vpc silk glacier storywriter digital alexa appstore audible inc. comixology amazon drive echo video prime kindle kindle fire fire hd fire hdx fire tv fire phone kindle store lexcycle lovefilm mobipocket music reflexive entertainment fire os amazon digital game store technology 1 click carbonado dynamo gurupa lab126 double helix games obidos liquavista publishing amazon publishing amazon studios breakthrough novel award best books of the year kindle direct publishing investments 43 things amie street songza librarything livingsocial sellaband other amazon books amazon light asin controversies tax fishbowl locker perfect 10 inc. v. amazon.com inc. statistically improbable phrase vine list of amazon.com locations list of mergers and acquisitions by amazon.com list of amazon.com products and services retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title yap company & oldid 721657840 categories 2006 establishments in north carolinaamazon.comamazon.com acquisitionsamerican companies established in 2006companies based in charlotte north carolinacompanies established in 2006multimodal interactionsoftware companies based in north carolinaspeech recognitiontechnology companies disestablished in 2011technology companies established in 2006technology companies of the united statestelecommunications companies of the united stateshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from march 2016all articles with topics of unclear notabilityuse mdy dates from may 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 may 2016 at 08 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view