February 26, 2007
Voicemail-to-Text Application For Skype
SimulScribe's voice transcription services, which are already available for US mobile phone users, are now available for Skype users. SimulScribe is currently offering a one week free trial. Subscribers to the service will have their Skype voicemail messages transcribed using proprietary algorithms, then delivered via email or SMS text messages.
I'm wondering whether a service like this can last for long. While speech to text applications still have a ways to go, with more powerful computers coming, such ability could become native on a computer. In which case SimulScribe would become unecessary.
For that reason, I hope that their game plan is to develop an Extra for Skype, but not release it immediately. There's no reason they cannot charge for an Extra/ addon, like HotRecorder does, provided their application does far more than a similar freebie.
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