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SpinVox API Now Available in Multiple Languages to Meet Demand for Speech 3.0 Applications WorldwideLONDON & NEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- SpinVox, the global leader in voice to content messaging, is releasing three new language versions of its open API (Application Programming Interface) - in Spanish, German and French. The new versions of SpinVox API are being launched in response to an increasing demand from technology developers who recognize that a speech interface enables the most natural form of communication. Developers want to build and launch quickly Speech 3.0 applications and are looking for best-in-class open products for their target markets. SpinVox API leverages SpinVox VMCS, the world's largest commercial speech platform and the world's first Cloud speech service, which already has over 30 million users and is growing fast. It provides a fully hosted platform with proven scale-on-demand capability and reliability to deliver on commercial-strength service level agreements (SLAs). It also enables SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further innovations in voice and expand the Speech 3.0 market, removing their need for expensive, specialist speech knowledge and high-end hardware costs. It also complements existing SpinVox platform development services for Enterprise application partners and Carrier networks. SpinVox co-founder and CEO Christina Domecq, says: "The SpinVox API is the first open platform for the co-creation of a new category of services. With interest from over 20 different countries, it has already confirmed SpinVox as the defacto standard for a new generation of speech products, developing new revenue streams for both SpinVox and its partners. The interest from outside English-speaking countries has been remarkable and that's why we've brought forward our plans to launch additional language versions of the API." SpinVox API in English was announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona in February 2009 and developers were invited to pre-register their interest in SpinVox API in advance of its launch via a web registration page - www.spinvox.com/developer. 500 developers Since then, nearly 500 developers have become SpinVox API program members and, of these, 40 have now been selected by SpinVox to be part of the co-creation program and have now been tested on a live server. These include business efficiency, personal productivity and social networking handset applications; survey software; business utility tools and voicemail solutions especially in the UC space. Developed using the SpinVox API, the first iPhone application enabled by SpinVox - Quick Voice Pro - is already available on the App Store. SpinVox API is provided through either a SMTP or HTTPS interface. Support is available directly and on-line through the SpinVox Developer website, including a forum to share ideas and views is provided. Partners are required to provide Level 1 and 2 technical support for end-users. Charges for SpinVox API are based either on a metered event fee, with lower pricing for higher volumes or on a per event basis. The program has no entry fee. The next growth opportunity in speech "SpinVox has created a new category - Carrier-grade voice conversion - which is live on five continents and now is helping entrepreneurial talent take advantage of the next growth opportunity in speech. Speech 3.0 applications and services will be one of a cluster of innovations that will drive the next upturn as people are now re-discovering the power of their voice," emphasises Domecq. "We've been impressed by both the quality and quantity of the response to SpinVox API. Now we are extending the opportunity to Enterprises and developers who want to launch applications into economies where the dominant languages are Spanish, French or German." About SpinVox SpinVox® is the world's largest privately-held speech technology company, providing the only voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people and whose user base has grown over twenty-fold in the last 12 months. Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies which are protected by over 70 patents worldwide, SpinVox has converged the two most natural forms of communication - voice and text - to create the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content™. SpinVox services are available directly from www.spinvox.com, through leading carriers, new media (Web 2.0), Unified Communications and other service providers globally. Implemented as a carrier-class hosted network feature, SpinVox creates significant new value from everyday natural user behaviour. At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System™ (VMCS), which has built the world's largest spoken corpus by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process, giving it unprecedented conversion accuracy, reliability, speed and scale. Developed by the Cambridge, UK- based SpinVox Advanced Speech Group, VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. SpinVox is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers Wireless, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile, Skype and Livejournal. |
