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November 10, 2011 12:52 am GMT

Amazon Snaps Up Yap And Its Voice-Recognition Technology

yaploThe month before Apple revealed its "intelligent assistant," Siri, Amazon was quietly buying out a company that performs voice-to-text actions like transcribing voicemails, whatever those are. In fact, its only user-facing product did just that, and its users received notice last month that the service would soon be discontinued.CLT Blog, a local news source in Yap's hometown, Charlotte, noted the change and discovered an SEC filing that, while it didn't spell much out explicitly, did show that the merger documents were on file here in Seattle, in South Lake Union, in a building owned by Amazon.

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