Category Archives: Mobile News

Mobile World Congress, Day 1

By HeidiMiller | Published February 16, 2010

Mobile World Congress opened its doors to 50,000 attendees in Barcelona today. The lines were long, but they went quite quickly. Much longer were the lines at local mobile stores, where non-local attendees flocked to purchase local mobile phones and SIM cards for Spain. A few notes from the first day of the conference:

Interesting that [...]

Also posted in GotVoice Events, Mobile Events, voice search | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

GotSearch: All-voice, voice-to-search solution to preview at MWC10

By HeidiMiller | Published January 31, 2010

Spoken and GotVoice have a nifty new product to preview at Mobile World Congress, and we’d like to give our readers the advance scoop!
Introducing Spoken’s GotSearch, a nifty new voice-to-search service with concierge as a value-added service. It’s a true all-voice, voice-to-search solution, maximized for mobile operators.
Why voice-to-search?
We live in a highly mobile [...]

Also posted in GotVoice, GotVoice Events, Mobile Events, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Google’s Nexus One: voice to text

By HeidiMiller | Published January 20, 2010

As the beginning of 2010 brought the revolutionary Nexus One, the barrage of reviews of the shiny new gadget has been substantial, to say the least. Question is, is it really revolutionary, what exactly is revolutionary about the Nexus One?
The announcement that Google would be selling its new Nexus One phone based on the Android [...]

Also posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Do you Browse the Web on your Phone more or less than the Average Person?

By admin | Published May 28, 2008

Ok, so think about how many times a month you browse the web on your smartphone?  Every week, every day? And do you just take a quick glance, or are you using it for a significant period on the bus, at the airport, or somewhere else? How many hours total does it add up to [...]

Also posted in Mobile Research | Comments Off

Mobile email use increasing – Growing to $212 billion by 2013

By admin | Published March 25, 2008

Here’s an interesting report which we found at David Siecker’s blog.  The article quotes a study from ABI research.
David seems interested in Voice-to-Text, starting with Jott.  His analysis is great, but we think he should do a little research on Voicemail to Text companies too…

Also posted in Mobile Research | Comments Off

More Than One Billion Served

By admin | Published February 27, 2008

We’re not talking about hamburgers.  MobileCrunch reports that in 2007, more than 1 Billion Mobile phones were sold to consumers. At GotVoice, more mobile phone sales means more people can receive voicemail as text messages, so these stats are very interesting:
The article quotes:
According to figures from Gartner, sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units [...]

Also posted in Voice Messaging, Voice to Text, Voicemail | Comments Off

GotVoice Delivers Voice Messaging Straight From the Horse’s Mouth

By admin | Published January 15, 2008

Here’s a link to the official press release about Talking Avatars. More info to come soon.
Add to: | Technorati | Digg | del.icio.us | Yahoo | BlinkList | Spurl | reddit | Furl |

Also posted in GotVoice, Talking Avatars, Voice Messaging, Voice to Text, Voicemail | Comments Off

Our Facebook Group – Cool Apps For Mobile Phones

By admin | Published December 5, 2007

If you like to talk about cool mobile gadgets, make sure to join our Facebook Group called Cool Apps For Mobile Phones. You can promote, debate, comment on, praise or ask questions about any mobile application here. And you make even make some new friends in the process.
You need a Facebook account to [...]

Also posted in Gadgets We Like | Comments Off

Cell Phone Vital in Recent Birth

By admin | Published December 3, 2007

Here’s a story from Cellular-News.com, but without any other attribution, so take it for what it’s worth.
According to the report…
A woman in Russia has given birth – by the light of cellphones after a power failure plunged the hospital into darkness. Quick thinking nurses borrowed mobile phones from visitors and other medical staff [...]

Also posted in Random Asides | Comments Off

New Mobile Phone Statistics are Promising For Voice to Text Services

By admin | Published November 27, 2007

Business Wire brings us a release from the Mobile Marketing Association, featuring new data from their third-annual Mobile Attitude and Usage Study.
Particularly relevant to the world of Voice to Text and Visual Voicemail, is that “54 percent of 13-34 year olds use SMS for social [...]

Also posted in Mobile Research, Voice Messaging, Voice to Text, Voicemail | 1 Comment

  • Join us at MWC10

  • Twitter.com/got_voice

    Avatar Use the "Dr Pepper rule" for answering voicemail at 10, 2 and 4, suggests @lifehacker: http://is.gd/a9a8L
    Avatar Who is attending #ctia? We'll be in Acision stand 2917. Ping for demo for GotSearch http://bit.ly/9lkOLk or GotVoice http://bit.ly/bGMuKk
    Avatar Does your voicemail greeting reflect your brand? http://is.gd/a3wSr
    Avatar VIDEO: comprehensive voice search solution--just call in and ask a question: http://short.to/1cb2r
    Avatar We'll be exhibiting at CTIA Wireless in Vegas March 23-25--visit in Acision Partner Bar, Stand 2917 for a demo of GotVoice and GotSearch!

  • RSS GotVoice Feed

    • Join us at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas
      It seems like we’re just back from Barcelona, and now we are packing us again to exhibit at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, March 23-25, 2010! Once again, we’ll be teaming up with Acision, the internationally leader in SMS messaging, at stand 2917. We’ll be branded as Spoken Communications in the Partner [...] […]
    • Mobile World Congress, Day 3
      Here at Spoken, today was primarily booked with meetings with current and potential partners. What’s really nifty about Spoken’s primary technology is that, while it was developed to support efficiency and customer service in call center, the principle of having a human Silent Guide can be applied to just about ANY service in which voice [...] […]
    • Mobile World Congress, Day 2
      Very exciting day today for Spoken’s GotSearch! We ran through quite a few demos for our partner here, Acision, to an overwhelmingly positive response. We’re hearing quite a bit about the need for a voice search solution that is accessible by feature phone, adaptable to different databases, and with the ability to help decrease the [...] […]
    • Mobile World Congress, Day 1
      Mobile World Congress opened its doors to 50,000 attendees in Barcelona today. The lines were long, but they went quite quickly. Much longer were the lines at local mobile stores, where non-local attendees flocked to purchase local mobile phones and SIM cards for Spain. A few notes from the first day of the conference: Interesting that [...] […]
    • Spoken Previews New Comprehensive Voice Search Solution GotSearch at Mobile World Congress 2010
      Seattle—February 11, 2010 Spoken Communications Inc., the hybrid voice technology innovator, will demonstrate for the first time GotSearch, its new comprehensive voice search solution, at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Developed in conjunction with recently-acquired leading voice-to-text transcription provider GotVoice, GotSearch is being cr […]

  • Categories

  • Meta