Thanks to the guys over at Blackberry Geeks for the nice writeup and review on GotVoice.

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.

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 per month?

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.

The GotVoice Team will be in attendance this year at Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fl, from may 12-15. Please stop by our pedestal, or if you’d like to set up time to meet, contact our VP of Marketing, Colin Lamont. See you in Orlando.

RCR News has an article today featuring GotVoice.  RCR recognizes the pain consumers go through with their Voicemail.

“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.

Every once in a while, we like to give a little free publicity to some companies in our hood, especially when they are doing cool stuff in mobile.  So, when we saw this article from the Seattle PI’s John Cook,  about Dashwire, we decided to be neighborly and let the GotVoice Community know about them.

Here’s a quote from their CEO about what they do:  “We mirror your mobile phone to the Web and it allows users to be able to access, manage and share all of their phone content,” explains Chief Executive Ford Davidson. “It is one view of their mobile phone. Any picture that is captured automatically uploads, so it removes the hassle of users trying to figure out how to get their media content from the phone to the Web.”

Read the John Cook article for more info, or check it out yourself at www.Dashwire.com.

According to this blog…

Now you can use your cell phone to check for speed traps with Trapster.  Trapster is a free service that allows users to report police traps by pressing a button on your cell phone, or by calling a toll free number. (more)

Now, we’re not advocating speeding or any other illegal activities.  Just file this under, “Wow, you can use your cell phone for ANYTHING.” Check out Trapster.com for more info.

It’s that time of year again where all things wireless can be found in one place - the CTIA spring convention in Las Vegas.  It’s the largest and most comprehensive convention in the wireless industry and GotVoice will be in attendance showcasing G2, our new platform.  If you’re interested in voicemail unification, voicemail broadcasting, voicemail greetings customization or  the fastest, cheapest, and most accurate voicemail to text transcription service in the industry - or if you just want to grab a beer with one of the more entertaining guys you’re likely to meet at the convention - get in touch with Colin Lamont, our VP of marketing, or come find us at the convention.

Here’s to a great convention!  Wooo Woooo!

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…

Hi. I’m a talking avatar. Normally I’d be blinking my eyes and moving my mouth in synch with the words of your voice message, but because this is just a screen shot, I can only sit here and show off my disproportionately large eyes.

‘Why are they still staring at me?’ ‘I’ll bet they go away if I look up and to the left.’  ‘Maybe they’ll think I’m looking at something interesting and look at that instead.’  hoped Moodle the wonder poodle.

As mentioned previously, GotVoice has a new transcription engine.   Unlike earlier engines, this one is built for scalability, which, interestingly enough, has nothing to do with the type of scale I have in my bathroom.  There are two reasons it’s so cool.  First, it works with any existing voicemail system.  Second, because it uses free-form speech technology it provides better quality at a lower price than anything else on the market.  It usually takes them a while to understand, but every friend I’ve told gets incredibly excited when I explain this service to them.  It’s kind of like the olden days when transcriptionists sat in rooms typing out messages only not.  Back then, of course, all of the transcriptionists were in black and white, except some of them were in color, and that is how this service is too.  

I haven’t heard a review yet from Neil Cumpston, but I imagine he would only be more excited if they made a sequel to 300, and called it 300 - 299: what happens to the one guy who makes it.  It wouldn’t be as cool as the original since there would only be one guy and he would only have one eye.  It would probably be all about how he invented the eyepatch and the movie would be all about him wandering around without any depth perception and tripping a lot and getting things in the place where his eye used to be until he discovers elastic and connects it to a patch of cloth and uses it to cover his blind eye.  It would have lots of heavy metal music and be in slow motion every time he tripped over a rock or wiped dirt out of his eye.  And there would be a sweet montage of him cutting the cloth and connecting it to the elastic and then even more heavy metal music and super slow motion as he would stretch the elastic and cover his blind eye and yell a bunch.  Man, eyepatches are so awesome.  I would totally go see that movie.