Once again, DriveSafe.ly has been recognized by it’s customers and fans in the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards. The category of Office or Productivity app was narrowed down to 5 apps, but DriveSafe.ly was determined the “clear winner.” The award emphasizes how the application can be utilized in a corporate environment, by allowing employees to comply with new company policies and legal regulations aimed at safe driving. This win comes on the heels of the Mashable Best Mobile App 2010 award and the CES Mobile App Showdown earlier this year.

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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.