Spinvox - voice to text service

"Hello Blog. This is my first attempt at using SpinVox. Tired of using the telephone to post Blackberry to ___ to to make posts to the blog. You can also make memos and you can also blast multiple respondents. Let's see if it works."

spoken through SpinVox

I really like Liz Kolb's blog about using mobile phones as tools. I have been meaning to investigate the things she mentions in this post for some time. However I came to a slight impasse when I discovered that the application (Jott) for using a cell phone to post to blogs, or make memos etc as a voice call was restricted to the US.

Being a super duper researcher I googled "jott uk" and came up with the name Spinvox as a uk equivalent. So just for kicks I though I'd try it out.

First you sign in. Good news is that there are 10000 free accounts on the go at the moment so get it while its hot. When you sign up you decide on the services you want to use:

• voicemail - ensures you get your voicemail messages as a text (not worth it for me, being billy-no-mates)



• memo - call in things to remind yourself and they come up as an email



• blog- speak direct to your blog. Say your message and up it comes



• blast - send a message to multiple recipients



• social networks - speak in your SN wall updates



• text - speak an sms (not yet available)



• messenger - something about when the phone is not available (also not yet available)

Once you are registered you get an email detailing the telephone numbers to call (from your registered mobile). It also gives you a PIN, which you can change at anytime in your account.
You might have to add an email address to your mobile settings for your blog. I didn't for Typepad.
To post to my blog I called the number given (normal landline BTW so useful if you have a price plan) entered my PIN and spoke. The quote at the top is pretty much what I said, except for the bit in the middle where I kind of lost my train of thought and fluffed my lines a bit.

This is the email memo I sent myself. I didn't mess this one up.

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If some of the features of this service remain free I would like to see it linked in with Google Calendar or other calendar apps or even some of the other organisational applications mentioned in Liz's post.

I can imagine that the blog thing would be great on class day trips to places of interest. Kids could phone in their thoughts to their class blog.

 

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Comments

[Adam Sutcliffe]

Liz
Thanks for your kind words. Voki is rather cool and kids get quite a kick out of it.
Adam

[Liz Kolb]

Adam
Thanks for the nod to my site. You have some fantastic ideas on your site that really inspire me. I'm sorry that Jott does not seem to work well outside of the U.S...maybe we can put a bug in their ear to work on that issue :-)

I'm excited about the Voki site you mention on your blog (I'm excited that it couples with cell phones), I'm going to check it out and possibly do a post about it on my blog.

Liz