SpinVox Expands across Latin America with Telefonica

SpinVox, the global leader in voice to content messaging, announced today that the company’s speech-to-text conversion service is being deployed as a network service through an additional 12 countries in Telefónica’s mobile operations across Latin America. Spinvox service will be available to all Telefónica’s mobile customers in the region.

Argentina; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Uruguay and Venezuela will offer the service as will Vivo, Telefónica’s joint venture with Portugal Telecom in Brazil.

The agreement builds on the October 2008 announcement from SpinVox and Telefónica’s Movistar Chile of the launch of the first speech-to-text service in Latin America.

SpinVox is the only speech to text service in the world available in six languages – Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. SpinVox has configured its Voice Message Conversion SystemTM (VMCS) to convert the local variants of Spanish and Portuguese spoken in each country in Latin America.

SpinVox co-founder and CEO, Christina Domecq describes the contract as a landmark deal that demonstrates the sort of Tier 1 Carrier-grade scalability that only SpinVox can provide. “This has already established the company as the market leader on five continents, creating a new category that enables Carriers to turn everyday speech into billable revenue to deliver an immediate and positive ARPU impact,” she adds.

Luis Miguel Gilperez, Director, Mobile Business at Telefónica Latinoamérica, says: “Providing the best customer experience is a key objective of everything we do. That is highlighted today with the announcement of our partnership with SpinVox. Our customers will be able to receive via SMS all their voicemail messages, and, from the callers’ point of view, they will leave messages with the security that they will be delivered in a few minutes directly to the recipient as a text.”

Domecq adds: “We’re changing the way we all communicate, do business and keep in contact with our social networks: using one simple and efficient messaging tool – SpinVox.”

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 past 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 from www.spinvox.com, through leading carriers, new media (Web 2.0), Unified Communications and other service providers globally.

Implemented as a carrier-class hosted network feature, SpinVox creates significant new value from everyday natural user behaviour.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System™ (VMCS), which has built the world’s largest spoken corpus by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process, giving it unprecedented conversion accuracy, reliability, speed and scale. 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.

Contacts

SpinVox
Jane Henry
Global PR Director
M: +44 7941 941 794

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