Voice-to-text pioneer SpinVox is touting new Voice 2.0 applications that make use of SpinVox Create, an open API to the SpinVox Voice Message Conversion System. They enable any developer with Web access to quickly build commercial speech applications.
SpinVox Create will be launched as a key part of a two-stage corporate API strategy to be rolled out in the first half of 2009. It was officially announced at Mobile World Congress.
Nearly 100 developers have already registered interest in SpinVox Create and, of these, 20 have been selected to be part of a co-development program. Those selected include business efficiency, personal productivity, games and social networking applications, the company said.
“We’ve been impressed by both the quality and quantity of responses to our pre-registration announcement,” says SpinVox co-founder and CEO Christina Domecq. “We are clearly seeing an increased demand for voice conversion services from technology developers who recognize that a speech interface enables the most natural form of communication, and who want to build Speech 2.0 applications with best-in-class open products.”
Applications for the Apple iPhone, Nokia Series 60 and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms will be demonstrated at CTIA, including:
- Travel Blog, a Windows Mobile 6.0 Application developed by Singapore-based Global Idealogy Corporation, lets you tag and post your photographs using just your voice. You can select photographs through the application, speak a message, attach the converted text to the photographs, post it on blog, social networking Web sites or send it as e-mail or MMS.
- Speak-a-Text, a Nokia Series 60 Application developed by UK-based Symbian Platinum Partner, Savage Minds, incorporates the ability to convert speech to text and isplaced into the menu structure of the phone software.
- Memo, an iPhone Application, developed by U.K.-based SpinVox allows iPhone users to speak a memo through the iPhone application and after conversion into text by the SpinVox VMCS, the memo resides on the iPhone for instant access whenever needed.
