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  • SpinVox is dead - we look at the alternatives

    SpinVox is dead - we look at the alternatives

    With SpinVox out of the picture, we look at where users can turn next 21 May 2010 12:07 GMT

    From today, SpinVox is no longer available in the UK. If you're a SpinVox user then you would have received a text message stating the service was coming to an end. Well, the end is nigh.

    It's disappointing news if you relied on the service...

  • Spinvox accused of vast call centre operations

    Spinvox accused of vast call centre operations

    Voice-to-text by man, or machine? 23 July 2009 17:55 GMT

    British startup Spinvox has been accused by the BBC of running vast call centre operations across the world to turn voice into text, rather than the AI system that the company claims that it uses on the website.

    The company says that its...

  • Orange to offer visual voicemail

    Orange to offer visual voicemail

    "On the roadmap" for the UK 3 April 2009 9:33 GMT

    Non-iPhone users have long been envious of Apple’s Visual Voicemail, but it seems that might come to an end, at least in France.

    Orange is launching their own visual voicemail solution, unimaginatively titled "Visual Voicemail".

  • Skype users get SpinVox option

    Skype users get SpinVox option

    First VoIP deal for voice-to-text service 3 March 2009 12:27 GMT

    SpinVox and Skype have announced the availability of voicemail to text conversion for all Skype voicemail users today.

    SpinVox converts voice messages to text in English, Spanish, French and German. The messages are then sent by Skype as...

  • O2 announces 20 years of voicemail

    O2 announces 20 years of voicemail

    Leaving messages since 1989 24 February 2009 13:22 GMT

    O2 has announced its 20 year anniversary for offering voicemail on its network.

    O2 says that voicemail is one of its most popular services since its launch in 1989 - although back then it surely would have been one of the only services....

  • 70% of words in voicemails are slang. Phones, Voicemail 0

    70% of words in voicemails are slang

    New research finds Queen's English is waning 22 April 2008 12:16 GMT

    The team testing a software application that turns phone voicemails into texts has foind that 70% of the language we use when leaving messages aren't in the English dictionary.

    The researchers used the SpinVox system to analyse the words...

  • Visual Voicemail widget available free on Google US . Software, Online, Google, CallWave, Voicemail, Phones, Mobile phone apps 0

    Visual Voicemail widget available free on Google US

    "See" your mobile's messages on iGoogle 8 June 2007 15:02 GMT

    Yet another one of the Apple iPhone's unique selling points as vanished with the announcement from Google that it is offering CallWave's Visual Voicemail gadget for Google Personalized Homepage.

    The free (at least while it's still in Beta...

  • Google signs radio deal in US. Biz, Mergers, Google, Voicemail, Phones, Mobile phone apps, 3G, iPod, CallWave 0

    Google signs radio deal in US

    Multi-year agreement sees ads on radio 16 April 2007 16:27 GMT

    Google has announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement that enables the search engine to sell a guaranteed portion of 30-second advertising inventory available on more than 675 of Clear Channel's AM/FM stations.

    Under the agreement,...

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