A brief note on SpinVox
It would appear that SpinVox, the company that turns voice mail into text and then emails it to you, is in real trouble. Invesco, which owns a small stake in the company, has written down the value of its holding by ninety per cent.
I find this all rather unfortunate. I use SpinVox, and the service is really pretty good. From the point of view of the end user, it works. I set it up once, people leave voice mails as normal and what they said is emailed to me. Yes, it makes the odd mistake – whenever my friend Hanif calls, it comes up with ‘this is Honey calling’. If someone’s in a very noisy place when they leave a message, the transcription loses accuracy. For most purposes, and in most situations, it works well. It saves time and it’s a lot easier to sort through voice mails than ‘press one now’ and so on. I’ve found it a lot easier to deal with voice mails as text and I’d rather keep the service.
The BBC piece that started these problems is here and SpinVox have a response at their blog.
xD.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I didn’t even know of it but it sounds like a good thing. Maybe if I didn’t know of it ….. well, no. There’s much I don’t know. Cancel that.
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:11 am
It is a good thing. For me, it’s a business tool. It saves time. It’s relatively cheap. It works.