SpinVox and Skype announced that Skype voicemail now can be converted to text in English, Spanish, French and German. Skype will leverage SpinVox's technology to produce a SMS text message of the voicemail that can be sent to a designated mobile phone.
In addition to the full text feature, Skype users can now use visual voicemail through the service, and get SMS notification of new voicemails if they would rather listen to the message.
"Skype is the first internet communications software provider to deploy SpinVox, further reinforcing our position as the only provider of voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people on five continents," says SpinVox co-founder and CEO, Christina Domecq. "Our user base has grown over twenty-fold in the last 12 months and bringing Skype's voicemail subscribers on board will accelerate this trend."
Skype executives touted the flexibility the new system gives Skype users. Each voicemail-to-text conversion will cost the user an additional $0.25 more than the standard Skype SMS rate for their location. Users can set a limit on the number of conversions allowed per day, and restrict the service to messages from certain contacts.
For more:
- see Skype's page for the voicemail-to-text feature here [1]
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Links:
[1] http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/voicemail-to-text
[2] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/skype-nokia-n97-invokes-wrath-carriers/2009-02-27
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/fear-skype/2009-01-26