SpinVox allows you to read your voicemail. It converts the voice message to text & sends it to your mobile phone or email. Currently available in the UK, it will be coming to America soon.
Rather than speed dial your voicemail and enter your code, you open your email or text message— it seems like a dead heat, time-wise. There may be a bit of time saved in reading vs. listening to a lot of messages or really long ones. The big advantage is in being able to save the messages in emails. It may also be useful if you’re in a noisy place or meeting where reading the message may be easier.
The service is not free so you have to sharpen your pencil to see if it’s worth it. If you take the messages on your cellphone, you’ll have to factor the cost of the inbound messages. Still it’s a nifty use of technology. I guess all good things in life can’t be free. Darn it.
Guy Kawasaki likes it, so we might try it. There’s a free one week trial.
CEO and Co-Founder Christina Domencq was named the UK’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young.
H/T: How to Change the World.
Can’t wait for SpinVox, try GotVoice. It will retrieve voicemail from your cell or other phones (add as many phones as you want) and send them to your email or the gotvoice website. Read & save them as you please. You can even schedule when your VMs are retrieved by GotVoice. The VMs will also remain on your phone until you erase them. I tried GotVoice several months ago (the basic plan is free) and got mixed results. The premium plan is $9.95 a month with RSS feed. Learn more about GotVoice here.
