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The five finalists for the category, as voted by Mashable readers, included: DriveSafe.ly, eBuddy, Evernote, ScoutMob and Gravity.
This year's winner is DriveSafe.ly, a mobile application that reads text messages and e-mails aloud in real time and automatically responds without drivers touching their mobile phones.
What's so special about the app? Heath Ahrens, CEO of iSpeech, makers of the app, told Mashable:
"It helps keep people safer on the road. Even if you don’t text while driving, perhaps you can help keep someone else from doing it by encouraging them to use DriveSafe.ly. It’s not just an app, it’s a solid cause...
The idea behind DriveSafe.ly was to help solve a real problem, texting while driving, while mainstreaming iSpeech technology. DriveSafe.ly helps keep people’s eyes on the road, serves as a flagship ‘powered by iSpeech’ app and helps popularize the SMS reading genre of app and safe driving apps in general."
Accepting the award, Ahrens sent a huge shout-out to the iSpeech development team in Newark, New Jersey for making the app possible. We commend the iSpeech team for creating a useful app that's helping solve a real-life problem. Congratulations!
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