Calling on International Beta Testers!

We know that many of you have been asking for new languages – well the time has come!  We are making a new beta on Vlingo for BlackBerry for French, German, Italian and Spanish. Very exciting, but we need your help to make sure we launch the best possible product.

What We Need?

• People who are native French, German, Italian and Spanish speakers
• It’s okay if you were born somewhere else, or if you live somewhere else now as long as you’re fluent

How You Can Help?

• Visit the AppWorld link below from your mobile device to download the beta

Download the Beta at AppWorld

• After that, just use Vlingo…
  • By using text, email, web search, social updates and more you help Vlingo create more accurate voice-to-text applications
  • By using SafeReader, you help us read messages naturally in your native language

What’s In It For You?

• FREE usage of our paid features for the duration of the beta
• Eternal appreciation from your buddies at Vlingo
• Tell your friends and earn their thanks for helping bring Vlingo to your language

Please Read!

• SafeReader plays new messages and calendar event reminders as they arrive.
• To stop playing the current message, press the red END key.
• To stop playing all messages say, “Stop SafeReader.”
• To view more options go to Menu->Options

For the BETA: SafeReader will temporarily collect message and event reminders to help us tune our system.   If you do not want this data collected please turn off the feature and do not use it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can spare.  We look forward to bringing awesome new languages to our BlackBerry application!

Cheers,
The Vlingo Team

Click to download via Vlingo.com here

Or via AppWorld here

Hope you enjoy.  And welcome Torch users to the Wonderful World of Vlingo!

We’ve introduced the Vlingo blog to communicate real-time with you — our users. We want to you to give you the latest updates on our product releases, offer product tips & tricks, and share stories about how your fellow users are benefitting from Vlingo. We also want to let you know about the great things happening at Vlingo.

So here’s your first update! This morning, RIM announced the launch of BlackBerry App World™ – a place where BlackBerry users can easily find and download hundreds of applications. At Vlingo we couldn’t be more excited that Vlingo is one the first apps on this store. We think it speaks volumes about how Vlingo is being embraced by our BlackBerry users!

We already know that millions of people use Vlingo to send text messages & emails, search the Web, dial their phone, update their social status and more. Being featured in the BlackBerry App World store is a great way to get more people using Vlingo. With the ability to send a text message or an email by just speaking, Vlingo users can more easily (and might I say faster) connect with friends & family.

Over the next several months, we’ll be adding more functionality to the already existing application. As Hadley mentioned last week, our goal is to allow users to say anything into their phones and have Vlingo understand their intent and take the appropriate action. These days mobile phones are rapidly becoming people’s primary personal information, entertainment, and communication devices. With Vlingo, we know we have just begun – there are so many possibilities and we intend to help make your mobile phone experience the best it can possibly be.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Erin Keleher, Senior Marketing Communications Manager, Vlingo