ShoutOUT Texting App for Android Adds Voice Addressing and Text-to-Speech Feature for Converting Incoming Messages Into Spoken Words

MENLO PARK, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ShoutOUT, the first hands-free texting app for Android phones, now lets users address contacts by voice and listen to incoming texts instead of reading them on a phone's screen.

ShoutOUT is Promptu Systems Corporation's free speech-recognition application for composing text messages by speaking instead of typing. Starting today, the new version is available in the Android Market™ and featured on the V Cast Apps Channel for Verizon Droid phones.

"ShoutOUT is the most accurate speech recognition app for text messaging on Android phones," said Giuseppe Staffaroni, Promptu's CEO. "We're thrilled Verizon has selected ShoutOUT to be one of their featured applications."

ShoutOUT for Android 2.0.1 and higher, designed for the new Droid Incredible by HTC, Google's Nexus One, and Droid by Motorola, is fully integrated with the Android SMS client. The new release includes a notification window that pops up any time a new text message arrives. This notification window not only lets users see, or play and listen to the content of the message, but also enables them to reply by voice with just a click of a button.

In addition, the new version of ShoutOUT includes a playback of the transcription to confirm that it understood what the user said. This, combined with Promptu's Smartword™ editing tool that lets users see and select from likely word alternatives, plus the ability to address contacts by voice, makes ShoutOUT a breakthrough hands-free application.

Like all Promptu applications, ShoutOUT is built on state-of-the-art speech recognition technology. To maximize accuracy for ShoutOUT, a personalized acoustic model is assigned for every user during the app's registration process.

ShoutOUT's speech recognition is server-based, and 100-percent automated. All message transcriptions that appear on users' phones are created with no human intervention whatsoever, so privacy is guaranteed.

ShoutOUT standard features include message exchanges threaded by recipient, thumbnail images for contacts, and one-touch navigation to all recent incoming and outgoing messages.

By using voice as the interface, ShoutOut is the most intuitive and natural alternative to the awkward process of entering text on a mobile phone.

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, and handset providers, Promptu applications run on the company's fully automated Network Speech Recognition (NSR™) platform to ensure 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