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Voicemail to text? It works!

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30th Oct 2008
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There’s one thing worse than having to leave messages on people’s voicemail – and that’s retrieving messages from your own voicemail or answering service! If that sounds like you, the clever people at Spinvox reckon they have the solution for you. This voice-to-text service will pick up your voicemail messages and relay them to you as text messages or emails (or indeed both) for as little as 20p per message.

Spinvox claim that their Voice Message Conversion System, known as ‘D2’ (the Brain), is extremely effective at converting speech to text and seldom gets caught out by tricky words or accents. Reviews in the IT press bear this out,

If that wasn’t clever enough, digging deeper I found that Spinvox actually offers a whole lot more than this, such as:

Memos – if you need to remember something or leave yourself a reminder, you just call your voicemail and it sends your message to your email Inbox.

Blog is an even cleverer idea. For real-time blogging you can phone Spinvox and speak your latest blog entry wherever you are and it will post your thoughts directly to a blog on sites such as Livejournal, Windows Live Spaces, Moblog.co.uk, Typepad, Vox and Blogger. It can also be used with Movable Type and WordPress blog tools. You can also use Spinvox to post blog entries on Facebook, Twitter and Jaiku social network sites.

Blast is a variation of the voicemail service which enables you to “broadcast” a message from your phone to a group of contacts via text message or email.

You can try Spinvox for yourself – just call 0845 040 6699 from your mobile and leave yourself a message. Shortly after you hang up you’ll receive a text message on your phone relaying your message back to you in text. I tried it a couple of times speaking at normal pace, without making any special effort to pronounce words clearly, and got 100 per cant accuracy. Maybe it’s time to try voice recognition software again!

Nigel Harris

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By rc.falconer
06th Nov 2008 13:11

Perhaps we should all use this
Seeing that the product achieves 100% cant accuracy we should all be using this!

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