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Spinvox is ending disturbing voicemails


by Yoseph Yohanes
Contributing Writer


Spinvox is a UK-based service for a new voicemailto- text swap. It allows you to read your voicemail, make a text reminder by speaking through your phone, or send your mates the score of your football game while you sit in the bleachers. It’s fast, easy, and accurate in translating spoken words to written words.

Basically, to acheive almost all of the services Spinvox provides, it converts voices to text by using a speech recognition program. For $10 a month you’ll get 40 conversions from your voicemail box to text messages.

I’ve tried the Spinvox free-trial service, and it’s fascinating. Call (888) 592-7162 for your own free trial. Leave a voicemail for yourself, and within three minutes you’ll get your message back in the form of a text.