Optus selects SpinVox VoiceMail To Textâ„¢ Service for its mobile subscribers (Australia)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SpinVox, the leading provider of voice-to-content messaging, today announced an agreement with Optus to launch the SpinVox VoiceMail To Textâ„¢ service with the carrier in 2009.

SpinVox quickly converts incoming voicemails to text messages and delivers them as an SMS to the subscriber’s mobile, allowing the user to discretely view the content of the voicemail without having to dial-in and listen to the message.

It is also particularly useful as customers receive the message as an SMS text, meaning they no longer need to write down important information or phone numbers, names and addresses. Once read, the text message can be saved and forwarded. The caller’s number is also included to make it simple to reply with a voice call or text message using click to call or SMS functionality.

Optus is the second Australian carrier to launch a SpinVox-powered voicemail to text service. Telstra launched its Voice2Text service to its business users in November 2007, followed by rollout to its consumer base in February 2009.

SpinVox voicemail to text gives Optus customers the opportunity to enjoy a real visible voicemail experience,” said Christina Domecq, co-founder and CEO of SpinVox.

Australians are already embracing SpinVox and this deal adds to the millions of SpinVox users on five continents who are already enjoying the power of reading their voice messages,” adds Domecq. Automatic conversion of voice to text is a truly exciting category of voice services which is spreading across the globe at an impressive rate and is now the fastest growing network service since SMS.”

Prices and details for the service will be revealed at launch.

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-Contentâ„¢.

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 able to easily create value from everyday user behaviour 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 Systemâ„¢ (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 and Livejournal.

About Optus

Optus is an Australian leader in integrated communications. The company specializes in a broad range of communications services including mobile, local, national and long distance telephony, business network services, internet and satellite services and subscription television. For more information please visit www.optus.com.au.