A former Microsoft executive and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, Steven has over two decades of strategic, executive, international and operational experience in high technology management, private equity and business management. Building on the existing momentum of GotVoice, Steven will work to partner GotVoice with carriers and IP communication providers to incorporate the GotVoice G2 solution into companies’ existing platforms.

“I have the advantage of coming on board at time when globally, carriers and service providers are seeking differentiation through services like GotVoice,” he says. “Our carrier-grade solution is unparalleled in that it has been trained against millions of individual speakers from carriers throughout our markets and boasts unmatched accuracy and speed. We are helping to drive revenues for our partners by differentiating their offerings at a price point that stimulates usage.”

You can reach Steven directly at swu (at) gotvoice dot com or see him at CTIA, Internet Telephony or TMIA.

Here’s the schedule:
Sept 10-12: CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Sept 16-18: Internet Telephony Conference, Los Angeles Convention Center
Sept 22-24: TMIA Fall 2008, Toronto Reniassance

Let us know if you’ll be around any of these shows. We’d love to meet up.

New voice mashups are available to BroadSoft’s nearly 300 service providers through the BroadSoft Xtended Marketplace (http://marketplace.broadsoft.com). The Xtended Marketplace features applications for download and purchase, including mashups for voicemail-to-text service GotVoice, Web conferencing service WebEx, customer management solution ACT! by Sage and BlackBerry smartphones. Placing these applications on BroadSoft’s Xtended Marketplace provides immediate revenue opportunities for developers.

You can read the whole release here.

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This was a landslide. No company, not even SpinVox, came close to GotVoice in transcription accuracy.

Best in Show: GotVoice

It would be a bit unfair to pick four categories and then put each of the four services into one each. While it can give you an idea of what each service does best, it doesn’t let you know which is the best overall. This comes down to a matter of opinion, but I have GotVoice by a hair.

The real reason is that I didn’t even need a BlackBerry interface with them. Their transcriptions were so accurate that I could just read my voicemails and respond accordingly. There was no need to play them back. And if I needed to, I always got that email with the WAV attached, so I could play it on my BlackBerry Media Player.

Thanks for the review, and for noticing how important the visual voicemail space is becoming.

I had pretty much lost hope, but Mr.M recently pointed me to GotVoice. This system does exactly what I want. It does have the ability to take over cell phone’s mailboxes and that’s cool and all. What I like is that it allows me to forward the emails I get from my company’s voicemail and have them transcribed to text and sent back to me. There’s about a 2-10 minute delay, but it does work. I’m giddy with the service and thankful to Mr.M. for the referral. Sure, it cost about 10 bucks a month, but I’ll happily pay that.

The SciTech Guy has a number of funny posts, so it’s definitely worth checking out. Thanks for the review, and keep up the good work.

Joe at BBGeeks says, “While oneSearch makes good with its promise that it will learn your voice over time, it seems that GotVoice has that capability right out of the box. They claim a 90 percent accuracy rate, and I can’t disagree with them. My trials of the service have yielded wonderful results. I even had friends call with funny and even ridiculous accents. Still, the GotVoice transcription service got most of the words right.”

Check out the whole article, and if you own a Blackberry, make sure you have BBGeeks in your favorites or tagged in Del.icio.us.

Well, if you said anything more than 4.6 hours, then you are an above average Smartphone browser and thus, deserve to upgrade your device.  According to this story from MarketingVox, based on research from our friends at mMetrics, 4.6 is the magic number in the U.S. (2.5 in Britain.)  If that sounds high, it should, because it’s a full 89 percent increase year over year.  Consequently, mobile pageviews have increased 127 percent.

Checkout the whole story at MarketingVox.

“Voicemail, like caller ID and long-distance calling, has become a standard inclusion in almost all wireless offerings, nearly as much a part of plans as the buckets of minutes themselves. And the phone’s voicemail icon can be an annoyance, reminding users to check their messages the way a spouse might nag them to take out the trash.“

Check out the whole article here.