Jan. 3, 2012Dexetra, an India-based, mobile app developer, is thrilled to
announce a groundbreaking new partnership with the world's most
popular real-time Q&A service, ChaCha, to create a
revolutionary element to the Iris app. Iris, the immensely
popular, voice-powered question-and-answer app, will now include
ChaCha's vast database of questions and answers, allowing instant
responses to inquiries asked by users for free.
Dexetra, famous for its creation of the free Iris app in just eight
hours, developed the natural language search engine for Android
phones. With ChaCha's addition to Iris, questions asked by users
will be directed to ChaCha's immense database, permitting
conversational questions to be answered in real time. The
innovative Q&A element from ChaCha will allow Iris to be the
world's most intelligent voice assistant.
"ChaCha's massive database of quality answers will add a lot of value
to the Iris app," said Dexetra CEO Narayan Babu. "This
partnership will not only benefit Iris, but Dexetra as well and
it is an honor to work with this groundbreaking company."
ChaCha CEO, Scott A. Jones, is excited to partner with the
cutting-edge developer. Jones said, "We are thrilled to work with
Dexetra to pioneer our Q&A capabilities with a voice-powered
search engine. We look forward to bringing a new standard of
quality to conversational Q&A through this partnership."
Dexetra's partnership with ChaCha will create an innovative way to
answer natural language questions in real time, helping to improve
accuracy, understandability and search time. This partnership
represents a milestone in voice search by expediting the process
and providing quick, reliable answers.
About Dexetra
Dexetra is an India-based startup founded in 2010. Dexetra functions
in the personal search domain. The company focuses on creating
products that would enable the Smartphone to be a better tool for
the user rather than just being used for communication. Iris,
the Personal Assistant App for Android, now has more than a
million downloads and has answered upwards of 30 million user
queries.
About ChaCha
ChaCha is the leading source for free real-time information
and answers. Through its unique "ask-a-smart-friend" platform,
ChaCha has answered nearly 2 billion questions since launch from
more than 25 million unique users per month via its website
(ChaCha.com), the 242242(R) text service, the ChaCha(R) iPhone
app, the ChaCha(R) Android app, and the 1-800-2CHACHA(TM) voice
service. ChaCha is one of the fastest growing mobile and online
publishers according to Nielsen and comScore. Follow ChaCha on
Twitter: @ChaCha, @ChaChaMan, and @ChaChaCMO.