SpinVox Brings ‘Real Visual Voicemail’ to Millions of North American Subscribers

SpinVox Brings ‘Real Visual Voicemail’ to Millions of North American Subscribers

Leading companies sign on with SpinVox to deploy award winning Voice-to-Screen services

SpinVox, the world expert in Voice-to-Screen™ messaging for consumer, enterprise and carrier markets, today announced it is working with leading network operators and industry partners and vendors to bring its Voice-to-Screen services to millions in North America. SpinVox’s award-winning voicemail-to-text service takes Apple iPhone’s much touted feature, Visual Voicemail, to a new level. North American subscribers can now not only listen to voice messages in the order they desire, they can also receive voice messages as a text message or email anytime, anywhere.

When it launched in North America in January 2007, SpinVox experienced immediate demand from the industry and potential subscribers. SpinVox has already signed deals with Cincinnati Bell and SaskTel and established a working partnership with Skype to create innovative next generation voice messaging services. These build on existing global deals with major companies such as Vodafone. Additional agreements with carriers to offer multi-lingual Voicemail-to-Text service and Voice-to-Screen products are scheduled to be announced this year. Through word-of-mouth communications, the SpinVox North American Gamma program has already attracted more than 6,000 users for SpinVox pre-carrier services.

Christina Domecq, CEO of SpinVox, commented, “SpinVox Voice-to-Screen services are generating tremendous industry interest and support. Our strategic partners and relationships represent our fast-growing global expansion and are leading North American presence as we deliver ‘Real Visual Voicemail’ through our upcoming carrier deployments.”

SpinVox has signed agreements with IP Unity Glenayre, and uReach Technologies. Additionally, SpinVox is working with Unisys, StreamWIDE, Broadsoft, UTStarcom, and mPathix for carrier deployments.

“IP Unity Glenayre is excited to team with SpinVox in bringing Voice-to-Screen services to the market,” said Stan Little, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for IP Unity Glenayre. “The approach aligns with our strategy of using standards-based interfaces to enable mobile messaging applications that users value and carriers can quickly deploy.”

An established UK company, SpinVox has experienced massive growth built on a foundation of partnerships, deals, awards and revenue, by following a guiding philosophy of directness and simplicity. From a team of 30 with 60,000 users, the Company has grown to over 180 staff in nine locations, across four continents, supporting a multi-lingual service with a forecast for 2007 of over six million people experiencing their spoken word converted to screen. In 2006 this performance was marked by major awards such as GSMA, the Red Herring 100 Europe ‘Top Technology Innovators’ and Mobile Messaging Awards 2006 ‘Biggest Impact on Mobile Messaging’. SpinVox will elegantly slot into any–and every–messaging solution from traditional voice right through to Web 2.0.

SpinVox has invested over four years researching, developing and deploying a world-class, ISO-certified, carrier-grade service platform. The platform is capable of integrating directly with any carrier’s voice messaging platform, enabling carriers to offer highly innovative Voice-to-Screen messaging products to all of their subscribers.

SpinVox is available across three continents and in four major languages: International English, Spanish, French and German with further languages in development. SpinVox is headquartered in the UK with offices in five countries, including North American headquarters in Atlanta and is privately backed by private equity and international finance firms with funds in excess of $60 million USD.

About SpinVox

SpinVox brought together the two most popular methods of communication – voice and text – and created a new category of messaging called Voice-to-Screen. Its award-winning services are now driving new recurring revenues for mobile and fixed-line operators.

At the heart of SpinVox is its patented Voice Message Conversion SystemTM (VMCS), which underpins the company’s retail, enterprise, service provider and global carrier products. VMCS is hosted on an enterprise-class hardware and telephony services infrastructure to meet the rigorous demands of global carriers. Having invested over four years researching, developing and deploying a world-class, ISO-certified, carrier-grade service platform, VMCS is capable of integrating directly with any carrier’s voice messaging platform, enabling carriers to offer highly innovative Voice-to-Screen messaging products to all of their subscribers.

SpinVox created the world’s first Voicemail-to-Text service in 2003 and launched it in 2005 through partnerships with major UK retailers such as The Carphone Warehouse, The Link, Caudwell Group/4uBusiness and Hutchinson 3G. Today, SpinVox is available in four major languages: International English, Spanish, French and German with further languages in development. SpinVox is headquartered in the UK with offices in nine countries, including North America and is privately backed by private equity and international finance giants with funds in excess of US$60 million.

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