Voicemail (8 articles)
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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 TweetFrom 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...
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Spinvox accused of vast call centre operations
Voice-to-text by man, or machine? 23 July 2009 17:55 GMT TweetBritish 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.
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Orange to offer visual voicemail
"On the roadmap" for the UK 3 April 2009 9:33 GMT TweetNon-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".
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Skype users get SpinVox option
First VoIP deal for voice-to-text service 3 March 2009 12:27 GMT TweetSpinVox 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
Leaving messages since 1989 24 February 2009 13:22 GMT TweetO2 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
New research finds Queen's English is waning 22 April 2008 12:16 GMT TweetThe 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.
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Visual Voicemail widget available free on Google US
"See" your mobile's messages on iGoogle 8 June 2007 15:02 GMT TweetYet 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.
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Google signs radio deal in US
Multi-year agreement sees ads on radio 16 April 2007 16:27 GMT TweetGoogle 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,...