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There’s a new Twitter app on the streets, it’s called TwitterFone! It’s pretty simple but it’s backed up by some freaking awesome technology. In a nutshell, TwitterFone makes it possible to “tweet” through Twitter without having to type or text anything. You just talk and it transcribes it for you and posts it to your Twitter account.

TwitterFone launched this last week (May 6th to be exact) and has had over 15,000 signups in the last 4 days thanks to some really cool people helping promote the new service. I caught Pat Phelan (the idea guy) on the road and even got a chance to ask him a few super quick questions about the new startup. Here’s how our little convo went:

A little about the team/service from you.

Four board members Pat Phelan, Florian Seroussi CEO Celtrek, David Marcus CEO Zong/VOX telecom, Ivan MacDonald and Sean O Sullivan founders of Dial2DO

How did you guys come up with the idea?

I came up with it for a safety reason, texting is insanely dangerous whilst driving or even walking, speaking a tweek is so much more comfortable.

It hasn’t even been a week, are you surprised with the boom?

Blown away, 15,000 sign ups, it’s been perfect!

Have you had any challenges?

Obviously the translation engine has been difficult to get right, we scraped the top 1000 words every day for a month and this has been extremely helpful.

What are your plans for the future?

More countries… We own the TwitterFone urls for Japan and are closely examining that option, for the close future, add more countries, that’s it.

I have been playing with TwitterFone a little bit today and I’m really impressed so far with it’s mad voice recognition ’skills’. It got my name, punctuation and only missed one word (that I kinda slurred a little anyway.” Check out my tweet here.

TwitterFone is currently in private beta (invite only) so if you’re not in, you have to stand in line. However, Pat was very gracious to grant me 2 invite codes to jump 2 lucky readers to the front of the line and get them in. So here’s what we’ll do…

All you gotta do is comment on this post and I’ll draw two email addresses at random from the comments and send them the invites. I will announce the winners in 48 hours, that’s Monday night (May 12th) at 5pm PST. Then I’ll send out the invites and we can move on with our lives. So, on your mark, get set, go!

Thanks again Pat for taking the time while traveling, iBAM is eternally grateful! (maybe we can get some more invites later if we’re nice or something?)