Posted by Editor in spinvox, telus
Spinvox is a neat little app that converts your voice messages to text and delivers them to your handset by email or SMS. This is handy for making your voicemails searchable and archivable or for those people get a lot of voicemail. You probably know who you are. We reported earlier on Rogers adding Spinvox so it seems only fair to mention that Telus users can now have Spinvox too. No word yet on comparable pricing of the Telus offer (Rogers was $15/month). Drop a line in the comments if you know.
Also no word yet on a service that works the other way. e.g. a system somewhere you could text every once in a while and it would call up by computerized voice your mum or whomever and tell her you are doing just fine these days thanks, and how are you?
Startup idea in the making?
Posted by Editor in Carriers, Rogers, services, spinvox
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.
