10 Facts About Vlingo

Vlingo was a speech recognition software company co-founded by speech-to-text pioneers Mike Phillips and John Nguyen in 2006.

Vlingo was acquired by speech recognition giant Nuance Communications in 2012.

Vlingo Find and other iterations were known as first-to-market innovators in speech-to-text recognition.

Vlingo servers analyze speech queries and send any recommendations or possible corrections back to the user.

Vlingo had its own application with over 5 million users in addition to partnerships with a number of companies, including Yahoo, Samsung, RIM, and Nokia.

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Vlingo was acquired by Nuance in December 2011 for undisclosed terms.

In January 2012 AndroidPit discovered that Vlingo sends packets of information containing the users GPS co-ordinates, IMEI, contact list and the title of every song stored on the device back to Nuance without proper warning in the privacy policy.

Users of Vlingo have found the program sending data to servers at the dhs.

Vlingo stated that they would update the privacy policy accordingly.

Furthermore, they noted that a software bug was responsible in some situations for sending more data from users' phones to Vlingo than intended, and stated their intentions to fix such bugs immediately.