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Dictate emails to your mobile phone

No more typing messages on tiny keyboards

Martin Lynch, Personal Computer World 13 Nov 2006
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A UK company is promising phone users the ability to dictate emails into their mobile phones and PDAs.

The Yodal Mail service from V7 Technologies is expected to go live in January and will allow hands-free email dictation into mobile phones. Users will simply dictate their message, enter the email address and press ‘Send’. The company already provides technology for translating dictated content from voice recorders onto PCs.

There is certainly a market for such a facility, not only among Blackberry and other PDA users, who are frustrated by typing on tiny keyboards. However, accuracy of the translation will have to be very high to avoid embarrassing typos.

At the heart of the new system will be the SpinVox speech recognition engine, which has already been well received. SpinVox currently allows voicemails on mobile phones to be turned into text messages which can be sent to you as a text message or email. The cost averages out at around 20p per conversion.

There is no news yet on pricing for V7’s Yodal Mail.


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