SpinVox, a global specialist in voice to content messaging, has announced its intention to release SpinVox Create, an open API (Application Programming Interface) to VMCS, the world's largest commercial speech platform.
SpinVox Create is a response to an increasing demand for voice conversion services from technology developers who recognise that a speech interface enables the most natural form of communication and who want to build Speech 2.0 applications and are looking for best-in-class open products.
SpinVox intends to deliver SpinVox Create as a simple, straightforward API to leverage its commercial speech platform – which is growing fast and already has 30 million users – to enable any developer with Web access to quickly build commercial speech applications. It will also enable SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further innovations in voice and expand the Speech 2.0 market, complementing SpinVox existing platform development services for Enterprise application partners and Carrier networks.
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"SpinVox has already created a lead in restoring the primacy of voice with carriers on five continents around the world and with its range of Web 2.0 and Enterprise Unified Communications services. Speaking is also the most efficient way of communicating and further connecting it across the divide to messaging and Web will transform the value of speech," says SpinVox co-founder and CEO, Christina Domecq.
"It's that convergence of the voice and text-based worlds that is causing a paradigm shift in how we communicate daily. Now, with the pre-announcement of SpinVox Create we will see a new generation of speech-enabled applications delivering increasing levels of productivity in Enterprise applications and adding Voice to the User Interface innovations on the Apple iPhone, Nokia Series 60, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms," she emphasises.
Developers can pre-register their interest in SpinVox Create in advance of its launch via a Web registration page – www.spinvox.com/services – which will be released at Mobile World Congress 2009 as part of SpinVox brand new Web presence. The site will also feature a brief overview of the API programme that will lead to the development of a SpinVox software development toolkit (SDK).
The first hundred registrations will each receive a package of SpinVox voicemail-to-text conversions worth over £200 each.
SpinVox is expecting rapid uptake of the API, particularly in Silicon Valley where SpinVox Web 2.0 Services such as SpinVox Blog and SpinVox Social Networks have been particularly popular.
"This is just the beginning of SpinVox extending its business in a three-stage strategy that will be rolled out in the first half of 2009. We believe that Speech 2.0 applications will be one of a cluster of innovations that will drive the next upturn as people are increasingly enabled to re-discover the power of their voice," adds Domecq.
"SpinVox has created a new category of real-time, carrier-grade speech conversion and is now helping talented developers take advantage of the next growth opportunity. In particular, the potential for innovation between carriers and the Web is enormous – along with our own innovations we're helping create platforms for the development of world-beating applications and supporting their transformation to carrier-grade services."