nytimes.com — Cellphone service provider Alltel unveiled a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages instead of dialing in and listening to them. Fees for the service start at $4.99 for 20 voicemail conversions a month and go up to $19.99 monthly for 100 conversions.
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joediggsitDec 18, 2007
Too bad Alltel still has poor in-store customer service and the worst selection of phones I've ever seen! :D Also... the no-SIM card thing really bugs me.
nameless1Dec 18, 2007
The digger in order to recover the car. I cannot bypass his wall of pants.Digging.
yanivalfasyDec 18, 2007
GrandCentral, where you at?!
donsherioDec 18, 2007
Umm... Alltel ISNT the first to have this. Sasktel and Rogers in Canada have had this for a while already. I agree Alltel isn't being original, but this isn't news to us.
donsherioDec 18, 2007
Same with Sasktel in Canada,<a class="user" href="https://commerce.sasktel.com/eSales/start.swe?SWECmd=InvokeMethod&SWEMethod=Linkup&SWEService=SKTL+eSales+Link+Service&ViewName=Product+Detail+-+Features+View+(eSales)&BusObject=Catalog&BusComp=Internal+Product+by+Price+List+Optional&Id=1-W6V1V&SWERF=1&SMIDENTITY=NO">https://commerce.sasktel.com/eSales/start.swe?SWEC ...</a>
ncaauweDec 19, 2007
Hm, now if they can just explain to me why I'm suddenly being charged $20 more than I used to. 3 months in a row of that s**t, I can't wait to leave them in the dust, just as soon as I have the money for a new phone elsewhere and the ETF at Alltel...
bhartsbDec 19, 2007
Extreme Advance is going to offer this and much more. Note however there is no completely free lunch where speaker independent, accurate speech to text is concerned. Machine transcription is not up to the job, so humans have to be employed in the process. Humans do a great job at understanding other humans. I use my service to send and reply to e-mails and text msgs and get excellent results with fairly complex messages. The service is in more or less Beta mode right now. The main hurdle is just to change habits, but the savings in time and the convenience factor is pretty significant. Once I forced myself to relax and start using voice there was no turning back. The difference in our service is that we will do voice enabled email and SMS on any phones, Voicemail to text with a service like GrandCentral, and have an even more advanced PC client for Asynchronous dictation and e-mails. We can dynamically route the audio real-time to transcriber resources of our choosing and therefore have a lot of flexibility. i.e meaning a company can use there own internal resource or ours, tiered levels of service etc... Anyone interested in Beta (shameless plug) can go to our site and send me an e-mail. The site only shows Blackberry but we have the other in Beta.