We’ve certainly seen some voice to text solutions in the past. The market for such service is potentially huge, hence the existence of a competitor haven’t stopped Nuance Communications from announcing its own solution.
To be fair, they are (in this stage) focusing on voicemail, allowing users of their service to receive voicemail as “high-quality readable messages to mobile devices.”
Offered through carriers, the service uses Nuance’s world-leading speech recognition and transcription workflow solutions to convert voicemails left on any voicemail box into text. Transcribed messages are sent to users as SMS or email messages…
…Because the messages are transcribed, users don’t have to worry about writing down or losing information while driving or on-the-go. Messages can be saved, edited, forwarded, indexed in an archive and retrieved anytime, anywhere.
No carrier partners have been announced yet (or at least we haven’t caught any such release), but they are promising that carriers which pick their solution will offer a high quality service to subscribers. Nuance’s secret is in their state-of-the-art Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition technology, which is backed by more than 200 patents and patent applications worldwide.
I’m guessing they’re constantly pitching mobile operators around the world, hence we may hear from them in the near future again. Stay tuned…