SpinVox Joins Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Developer Advisory Council

SpinVox , a global leader in voice to content messaging, has been appointed to the worldwide Microsoft Windows Mobile Developer Advisory Council. The invitation-only programme provides a forum for industry partners to influence the development of the Windows Mobile platform, by sharing their requirements as well as their customers’ experiences and plans for future applications.

SpinVox will provide specific feedback from its extensive customer base across five continents on the use of SpinVox services in the Carrier, Enterprise and Web 2.0 mobile environments. The Council will provide SpinVox with access to key Microsoft mobility experts and insight into future development plans for Windows Mobile.

“The opportunity to shape future developments within the mobility space is a major opportunity for SpinVox and underlines our dedication to and excellence in the mobile voice-to-content services we’re developing for and deploying with our customers,” says Christina Domecq, co-founder and CEO, SpinVox. “Through our appointment we will be able to directly feed back customer challenges and priorities to Microsoft to ensure their needs are recognised and use them to shape the mobile services of the future.”

“The Windows Mobile Developer Advisory Council is a forum that enables Windows Mobile to reach out to our partners in a very focused manner and gather feedback on how to make Windows Mobile a better platform on a technical level,” said Steve Hegenderfer, mobile evangelist, Microsoft. “Based on its expertise in the space, SpinVox acceptance to serve on this council will pay excellent dividends in the future.”

About SpinVox

SpinVox® is the world’s largest privately-held speech technology company, providing the most successful voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people. SpinVox services are available directly on www.spinvox.com and through leading carriers and service providers globally.

Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies, SpinVox has brought together the two most natural forms of communication – voice and text – to create the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content™.

Its award-winning service is not only upgrading voicemail – by converting voicemail to text for delivery as SMS or email messages – but is also empowering people to speak SMS messages or emails to anyone, from any phone. SpinVox also enables people to speak messages directly to their favorite web messaging services such as Facebook, Twitter and many other popular web networks.

As a carrier-class hosted service provider, any network, anywhere in the world can rapidly implement SpinVox and it is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile and Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System™ (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish and German – with additional languages, Portuguese and Italian, under development.

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Contacts

MEDIA:
SpinVox Public Relations Director – North America
Tony Carter, +1 404-316-0201
tony.carter {at} spinvox(.)com
or
GK Communications for SpinVox
Greg Kalish, +1 516-665-3292
gkalish {at} gkcomms(.)com