Yap Taps Caringo to Provide Content Storage Infrastructure for Next Generation Voice-to-Text Platform

AUSTIN, Texas, Sep 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Caringo, Inc., a leading provider of content storage software delivering clustered storage infrastructure for both active and archive content, announced today that Yap Inc. has selected the company to provide the content storage infrastructure for Yap’s next-generation mobile speech-to-text platform.

Yap will utilize Caringo’s CAStor(TM) content storage software built on third-generation content addressable storage (CAS) technology to create a high-performance storage infrastructure with virtually unlimited scalability to support audio and text content derived from Yap’s innovative Automatic Speech Recognition cluster. Yap enables customers to dictate messages into their mobile devices, which are then instantly converted into text and sent as SMS messages to their recipients. Yap is delivering a socially conscious application recognizing that a significant number of people admit to writing and sending text messages while driving. This new capability allows these consumers to safely text without putting others and themselves at risk. The audio and text messages will be stored on and served from a CAStor storage cluster.