ShoutOUT iPhone Speech-to-Text App Adds Facebook and Twitter Support

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Promptu Systems Corporation's new release of ShoutOUT speech-to-text, http://shout-out.mobi/iphone.php, now gives users the option of Tweeting and updating their Facebook status using fluent natural speech, instead of typing on the iPhone's virtual keyboard.

Available now in the iPhone App Store, the new ShoutOUT transcribes spoken Tweets and Facebook updates in seconds.  Users can then post to Twitter, Facebook or both at the same time with a single press of a button. No cumbersome cut-and-paste is required.

ShoutOUT is a complete texting app that lets users create, send and receive text messages with either fluent natural speech or the iPhone's virtual keyboard. Using Promptu's SmartWord™ technology, users can correct the occasional error by tapping on a word to see and select from likely alternatives.

Users pay only pennies for spoken messages, and messages created using only the keyboard are completely free. ShoutOUT speech recognition is server-based and 100 percent automatic. All message transcriptions that appear on users' handsets are created with no human intervention whatsoever, so privacy is guaranteed.  

Additional new features in the latest release of ShoutOUT include:

• Headset support: wired headsets equipped with microphones can be used to send voice messages
• Landscape Keyboard support for typing text messages

"Tweet and update Facebook with your voice," said Giuseppe Staffaroni, Promptu's CEO. "It's faster, and the experience is much better because there's no more natural and intuitive form of human expression than speech."

ShoutOUT standard features include:

• Inbox and outbox
• Message exchanges threaded by recipient
• Send to multiple recipients
• Notification of incoming messages
• Thumbnail images for contacts
• One-touch navigation to all recent incoming and outgoing messages
• Large font option for multitasking

ShoutOUT is a free download and includes 25 voice credits.  Users can top-up accounts with:

• 50 voice credits – $1.99
• 150 voice credits – $3.99
• 250 voice credits – $4.99

ShoutOUT is built on state-of-the-art speech recognition technology and optimized for North American English.  Accuracy varies from person to person and improves with use.

About Promptu

Promptu Systems Corporation is at the tipping point of a mobile revolution fueled by Voice User Interface (VUI) applications - the most intuitive and natural way to interact with a phone. Created for consumers, carriers, handset providers and transportation companies, Promptu applications run on the company's fully automated Network Speech Recognition (NSR™) platform to insure accuracy, speed, privacy, and scalability. Promptu applications can be optimized for regional accents, and support real-time review and editing of transcribed text. Every day thousands of Promptu applications are downloaded worldwide. See how the revolution is being vocalized at: http://www.promptu.com.  

SOURCE Promptu Systems Corporation