December 18th, 2007Rogers adds Spinvox voice-to-text
Rogers wireless has added a new voice to text option powered by U.K. company SpinVox. The service uses automated voice recognition to convert your incoming voicemails to text and sends a copy to your device by sms or email (e.g. blackberry). I image accuracy could be a challenge, depending on the audio quality of the incoming call. However, even if it just gets the gist of the message and call back number right, it would be useful enough to know if a message is important when you might otherwise not have the time or opportunity to dial in and listen the slow way.
Of course the holy grail for a service like this would be to make all of your voicemail history archivable and searchable. Carriers, device and mobileOS makers, are you listening?
Rogers is pricing the service at $15 a month. This is a little steep for casual use, but I am sure there is some segment out there (sales/mobile professionals, mortgage brokers… come to mind) who will be more than happy to fork over. For the time being, Rogers is offering a free 30-day trial if you want to try it out yourself.
