LAKE FOREST, CA--August 20, 2012: Voice Assist, Inc. (OTCBB:VSST), an award-winning provider of mobile speech and handsfree solutions, today announced that it has expanded its handsfree driving coverage area to include all major cities in Canada.
“There is no reason for anyone who drives in Canada to have their head down looking at their phone anymore”
Voice Assist is the award-winning conversational voice assistant that lets drivers use voice commands to answer calls, make calls, send and receive text messages, read and reply to email or post to social networks -- without holding the phone or typing.
Drivers keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road to increase safety yet they can talk to Voice Assist in order to communicate by voice or data and still be productive.
"Distracted driving is a serious problem in Canada too," said Michael Metcalf, CEO of Voice Assist. "Canada has over 22 million people with a registered driver's license and the average commute time is 26 minutes each way. Larger cities like Toronto have even longer commute times. That's a lot of people potentially looking at their phones while driving," said Metcalf.
Voice Assist offers a simple solution that works on every phone and in every car to provide a handsfree safer driving solution.
"There is no reason for anyone who drives in Canada to have their head down looking at their phone anymore," said Metcalf. "Now, anyone who drives in Canada can just say what they want to do and it's done and they don't even have to buy a new phone."
Voice Assist provides a free version of its service that is ad supported and offers an ad free version for just $4.95 per month. Drivers can also add the optional Live Assist service which includes a live assistant to provide turn by turn directions, restaurant reservations, traffic reports, roadside assistance, travel reservations, hotel accommodations and more. Live Assist can be added for just $10 per month more.
About Voice Assist, Inc.
Voice Assist (OTCBB: VSST) is an award-winning provider of mobile speech solutions designed to be used from any phone and eliminates the need to press buttons on smartphones, tablet PCs or other network-connected devices.
Voice Assist is the network based virtual assistant platform that is engine agnostic and works on every handset, PC, tablet and IPTV or Internet Radio. Voice Assist's handsfree interface empowers people to use voice commands to dial, email, text, post, read, write, transact or play music by voice. With 8 patents pending, Voice Assist is the only handsfree voice interface that is audio aware and actionable based on subscriber defined priorities. The Voice Assist platform leverages SpeechScript the company's patent pending rapid application development environment. SpeechScript empowers developers to build once and apply applications to many devices -- fast. Voice Assist's patent pending mobile advertising platform also provides advertisers with talking mobile ads that are actionable by voice. Voice Assist is the ideal platform to host and provide voice activated services on mobile phones, landlines, voip phones, PC's, tablet PC's, IPTV's, internet radio and in-dash automotive systems. Voice Assist is the preferred voice technology partner for service providers seeking to deploy voice activated services across their entire network on every device or advertisers seeking to reach mobile customers with the option to respond handsfree by voice.
