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Taking your voice and converting it to text for your phone

About two weeks ago, on a whim Roger Kondrat reached out to longtime Twitterati and mobile guru James Whatley (pic) aka Whatleydude to see if SpinVox would be interested to sponsor Calgary’s Twestival.

Late last week it was official, SpinVox would sponsor the Calgary event with over 100 accounts being given away to every attendee of the event. These accounts are worth quite a bit of money, can be used on any service you belong to and it doesn’t matter which phone either!

And the absolute de jour is that these accounts won’t be active for only 30 days or even 90 days, nope they will be active for 12 months from the day you activate them. Looking around at the various offers thats a value of $75+ and a total contribution from SpinVox of nearly $1500 to Calgary Twestival.

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Let me tell you a bit about SpinVox they are one of only a couple services in the world that offer voice to text for cell (mobile) phones. You call, leave a voicemail like you would normally and voila in moments you get a complete translation of the voicemail as a text message on your cell phone.

As well you get an email with the text and SpinVox even keep the audio too. If on the rare occasion there is a (heaven forbid) mistranslation you can just call in and listen to your voicemail just as you would normally.

I have found their service to be most desirable for more than a few situations but here are two (business and personal) of my favourites.

1) You are in a meeting and you get a call from someone important and you know its a 50/50 chance it could be the kind of call you need to take but because you are in a meeting you must decide to either walk out or ignore the call. If you have voice to text you can just review the text that comes in immediately afterwards and make an informed decision.

2) You are in a noisy environment e.g. bar, restaurant etc and a friend calls trying to find out where you are at the location or about a change in plans for the evening. In this situation if you answer the phone you either have to leave the noisy environment to take the call or you can just wait for the text message SpinVox will send in moments after the call.

Accuracy? I hear that question all the time but honestly maybe 2-3 times has SpinVox ever made an error in transcribing my voicemails and I have used it for over a year now. My experience using the service included having a variety of accents from France, Quebec (Canada), Germany, India and China speaking English.

Disclosure: I (@roger) am a huge fan of SpinVox, long time customer and a friend of James Whatley.

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