iSpeech CEO Heath Ahrens presents at TEDxNJIT
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Heath Ahrens, CEO and founder of iSpeech, was invited by New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to present at the TEDx event they were running this year.
He was asked to present about how to get a bootstrapped company off the ground and share his experience that were gained while starting and running iSpeech. This experience stems from him starting a company from an idea a few years ago and bringing it to the top of speech recognition and text to speech companies. Applications powered by iSpeech have been downloaded over 25 million times and the number just keeps growing.
Here is the video of his presentation:
For more information on TEDxNJIT
iSpeech Sponsors BlackBerry DevCon Americas!
Just this past week iSpeech was a proud sponsor of the 2011 BlackBerry’s DevCon Americas. According to their website:
The BlackBerry® Developer Conference is the showcase for the latest innovations and breakthroughs with the BlackBerry® Development Platform. Thousands of BlackBerry enthusiasts come together to collaborate with platform experts from the community and attend sessions, demonstrations, hands-on labs and keynotes — all focused on developing leading mobile applications, no matter your skill level.
Being one of the leading application developers for BlackBerry phones, we gladly added our support to help make the event a great success.
If you want to add iSpeech technology to your application, do not miss our BlackBerry TTS SDK
iSpeech App available for free through BlackBerry App World!
Due to the service outages BlackBerry customers experienced last week, BlackBerry maker RIM (Research In Motion) decided 
to apologise to the customers by offering some popular applications to customers for free, together with a month of free support for their devices.
Among these applications are three of our very own award-winning applications:
DriveSafe.ly Enterprise Edition
To get these applications, simply “purchase” them in BlackBerry App World and enjoy!
For more information, please see RIM’s press release at: http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5214
Writeup about iSpeech’s TTS SDK on readwriteweb.com
http://www.readwriteweb.com did a nice write up about our TTS SDK release. For the article, head over to readwriteweb.com .
iSpeech Wins Investor Pitching Competition
On May 19, iSpeech attended the iEvening New Jersey conference at NJIT, attended by over 160 startup founders, numerous investors and Newark mayor Cory Booker. Five of the startups, including iSpeech, were pre-selected to present to a panel of 4 investors as part of the competition. CEO Heath Ahrens did the pitch and the panel selected iSpeech as the winner! The prize is an invitation to the Private Equity Forum in New York, sometime in June. iSpeech was chosen for its high-quality speech technology and innovative business model utilizing a proprietary ad platform.
For additional information, please visit this article.
iSpeech Applications are “Brilliant BlackBerry Apps For Dummies”
Both DriveSafe.ly and Caller ID Reader, mobile applications using iSpeech text to speech technology, have been selected for the new book “Brilliant BlackBerry Apps For Dummies.” This is quite the honor, as the author considered hundreds of BlackBerry apps to determine the top few for inclusion and recommendation. In addition, both apps were chosen as some of the best apps in the Communication and Email categories.
The latest in the series of “For Dummies” books aims to take the work out of selecting which applications are best to enhance productivity and enjoyment of the BlackBerry platform. More information on the book can be found here: www.dummies.com/buy/9780470903025
iSpeech CMO interviewed by MobileBeyond
Yaron Oren, CMO of iSpeech, was recently interviewed for a Podcast by Brian Prows of MobileBeyond. In the interview, they discussed how far speech technology – both text to speech and voice recognition – have come in the past few years. Also covered was the growth of the DriveSafe.ly application user base, and how more states are banning texting while driving due to increased awareness of the dangers of distraction. Click on the link to find the full iSpeech interview at MobileBeyond.
DriveSafe.ly and iSpeech up for more awards
We need your help again!
DriveSafe.ly and iSpeech are trying to win the Crunchies Awards categories of Best Mobile Application and Best Bootstrapped Startup. The Crunchies are sponsored by some of the biggest names in tech information – TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat – and is meant to recognize top companies and products for the year. Please visit the site HERE and nominate us in the appropriate fields (you will have to type in the names: Best Mobile App – DriveSafe.ly, Best Bootstrapped Startup – iSpeech). You can nominate once per day until December 24th. Top nominees will be finalists for voting in January, with the awards ceremony on January 21st.
DriveSafe.ly is also up for the Readers Choice award for Best BlackBerry App of 2010 at TheBerryFix.com. Visit the link and vote for us in the poll!
DriveSafe.ly Gets Things Done, Gets Features on Lifehacker
The folks over at lifehacker know all the right ways to streamline your life with handy tips and downloads. Now DriveSafe.ly 2.0 joins that list. For the full story and a special treat for lifehacker readers follow the link to the full review. Be sure to leave a comment or drop us a line elsewhere, such as our facebook page.
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; There are apps that read your email or SMS while you’re driving (and DIY solutions), and apps that can send messages with your voice. DriveSafe.ly combines and automates the two for total voice-controlled messaging, and Lifehacker readers can try it out.
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