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SpinVox has announced today that the company’s speech-to-text conversion service is being deployed as a network service through an additional 12 countries in Telefónica’s mobile operations across Latin America.
SpinVox service will be available to all Telefónica’s mobile customers in the region. Argentina; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Uruguay and Venezuela will offer the service as will Vivo, Telefónica’s joint venture with Portugal Telecom in Brazil.
The agreement builds on the October 2008 announcement from SpinVox and Telefónica’s Movistar Chile of the launch of the first speech-to-text service in Latin America.
SpinVox is the only speech to text service in the world available in six languages – Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. SpinVox has configured its Voice Message Conversion System (VMCS) to convert the local variants of Spanish and Portuguese spoken in each country in Latin America.
SpinVox co-founder and CEO, Christina Domecq describes the contract as a landmark deal that demonstrates the sort of Tier 1 Carrier-grade scalability that only SpinVox can provide. “This has already has established the company as the market leader on five continents, creating a new category that enables Carriers to turn everyday speech into billable revenue to deliver an immediate and positive ARPU impact,” she adds.
[Via: SpinVox]
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Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
