iSpeech Announces DriveSafe.ly 2.0 Distracted Driving App and Opening of Speech APIs

iSpeech, creator of the DriveSafe.ly and Caller ID Reader mobile apps, has launched DriveSafe.ly 2.0, reading text and email messages aloud and allowing voice response, hands free.

iSpeech’s DriveSafe.ly first launched a year ago. Since then, the first of its kind application has been used by more than 6 million people and has read more than 250 million messages to users. With DriveSafe.ly 2.0, iSpeech hopes to reduce the danger created by texting while driving by allowing people to send and receive txt messages and email entirely by voice.

The DriveSafe.ly 2.0 technology provides a smooth user experience with human-sounding text to speech (TTS) and human quality automated speech recognition (ASR). Once activated, it is possible to communicate by sending and receiving messages without touching the phone. Once an incoming text message is read aloud, the user can choose to replay the message, speak a response back to the sender or even call back the sender. DriveSafe.ly 2.0 is available for BlackBerry on BlackBerry App World with version 2.0 for Android and iPhone coming soon.

Additionally, iSpeech announced the opening of its text to speech (TTS) and automated speech recognition (ASR) APIs for mobile developers and content providers. The API speech enables mobile applications with text-to-speech and voice recognition on any platform; specific SDKs for BlackBerry and iPhone are also available with Android and Windows to follow.

“We have seen overwhelming demand for voice-enabled apps such as DriveSafe.ly and Caller ID Reader. We are excited to make this technology easily available to the mobile development community at large,” says Yaron Oren, iSpeech's chief marketing officer.