May 07, 2009 07:46 ET
First SpinVox-Powered Application launches on Apple App Store
nFinity’s QuickVoice Pro feature developed with SpinVox API.
Enables iPhone users for the first time to speak their emails.
LONDON & NEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- May 07, 2009
SpinVox,
a global leader in voice to content messaging, and Lincoln, RI-based nFinity
have announced the launch of the first SpinVox-enabled application to be
available through Apple’s
App Store.
Using the SpinVox
API (Application Programming Interface) nFinity has been able to
rapidly develop a new feature for nFinity’s QuickVoice Pro, the latest
version of the award-winning voice recorder that instantly became a Top
100 product in Apple's App Store when it was released in July 2008.
With QuickVoice
you can already conveniently record voice notes, reminders, dictations,
meetings, interviews, shopping lists, to do lists, and even entire
lectures and multi-session seminars. With the new enhancement,
QuickVoice Pro users will be able use their iPhones for the first time
to record voice messages which will be automatically converted to text
by SpinVox and sent to the email inbox of the user's choice.
SpinVox API leverages SpinVox VMCS, the world’s largest commercial
speech platform– a Cloud service which already has over 30 million users
and is growing fast - to enable Speech 2.0 applications to be built and
launched quickly.
It enables SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further
innovations in voice and expand the Speech 2.0 market.
SpinVox co-founder and CEO Christina Domecq says, “SpinVox API is the
first open platform for the co-creation of a new category of services.
It confirms SpinVox as the de facto standard for a new generation of
speech products, delivering a reliable mass-market experience and
developing new revenue streams for both SpinVox and its partners.”
According to nFinity’s business manager, Kerrie-Lynn Corcoran, as
downloads from the App Store approach 1 billion, SpinVox API has enabled
nFinity to develop and launch a brand new revenue generating application
in a matter of weeks, taking QuickVoice into brand new areas and
strongly differentiating the product from its competitors. “We simply
could not have done this without SpinVox API,” she emphasizes.
SpinVox API was announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona in
February 2009 and developers were invited to pre-register their interest
in SpinVox API in advance of its launch via a web registration page – http://create.spinvox.com
Over 400 developers have already registered interest in SpinVox API and,
of these, 20 have been selected by SpinVox to be part of the co-creation
programme. Those selected include business efficiency, personal
productivity, games and social networking applications on Apple iPhone,
Nokia Series 60, and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms.
For more information on SpinVox voice to content services including
voicemail-to-text, speak-a-text, blog
posts, social
network updates, blast and memo messages, visit www.spinvox.com.
More information on nFinity is available at www.nfinityinc.com
About SpinVox:
SpinVox® is the world's largest privately-held speech technology
company, providing the only voice to text messaging services which are
used daily by millions of people and whose user base has grown over
twenty-fold in the last 12 months.
Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies which
are protected by over 70 patents worldwide, SpinVox has converged the
two most natural forms of communication - voice and text - to create the
fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content™.
SpinVox services are available directly on www.spinvox.com
and through leading carriers and through new media, Unified
Communications and other service providers globally.
Implemented as a carrier-class cloud service, SpinVox is proven to be
able to easily create value from everyday user behavior using voice and
deliver rapid and easy implementation of low input, sustained high
reward services.
At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion
System™ (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech
technologies with a live-learning language process. Developed by the
Cambridge, UK- based SpinVox Advanced Speech Group; VMCS now serves
users across five continents in English, French, Spanish, German,
Portuguese and Italian.
SpinVox is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers
Wireless, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar
Chile, Skype, Vonage and Livejournal.
SpinVox
Jane Henry, Global PR Director
+44 7941 941 794
Jane.henry@spinvox.com
or
Rachael
Lyon, Director of Communications – North America
+1 917 515 2372
Rachael.lyon@spinvox.com