LONDON & SANTIAGO, Chile --(Business Wire)-- MOVISTAR Chile and SpinVox today announced the launch of the first voice-to-text service in Latin America - available to all MOVISTAR Chile subscribers on contract.

SpinVox converts voice messages into text and delivers them directly to the recipient as an SMS on their mobile phone. Subscribers not only see the full message content, but also the caller ID, so they can see at a glance who left the message, and then call or text straight back.

SpinVox was created by co-founders Christina Domecq and Daniel Doulton. They launched the company in 2003 and SpinVox services are already available in Europe, North America, Australia and Africa. As well as converting voicemail messages to text for SMS or email delivery, SpinVox has also developed a range of other services - enabled by voice to text conversion, including posting blogs; speaking a text or dictating a memo which is delivered to an email inbox.

MOVISTAR Chile subscribers are being invited to sign-up for SpinVox via the MOVISTAR call centre or by visiting their retail outlets. The service will be available either as a monthly bundle of 10 or 20 voicemails, or as a message-by-message service.

Paula Figueroa, chief marketing officer, MOVISTAR Chile, says: "Providing the best possible customer experience is a key objective of everything we do. That is highlighted today with the announcement of our partnership with SpinVox - which makes us the first in the marketplace to offer subscribers the very latest messaging service."

"SpinVox adds to the already wide range of value-added services that we make available to our customers and will be an integral part of the innovative portfolio of products that demonstrate our leadership in the industry," commented Figueroa.

Christina Domecq, SpinVox co-founder and CEO, SpinVox said: "We're changing the way we all communicate, do business and keep in contact with our social networks: using one simple and efficient messaging tool - SpinVox.

"Now you no longer have to waste time retrieving messages and writing down the details, which you then can't decipher, whilst on the run. And, from the callers' point of view, they can leave a message, confident that it will be delivered directly to the recipient as a text."

Talking about the launch with MOVISTAR, Domecq classified this landmark deal as: "A key part of our global strategy which today sees SpinVox as market leader on five continents, with more than 10 million users. Chile is an incredible launch pad for our plan to expand right across Latin America."

As part of its plan to grow its presence in Latin America, SpinVox has appointed Nicolas Herrera as sales director - Latin America and Ricardo Dorado as general manager - Chile. "These appointments signal our commitment to developing the SpinVox business throughout the continent," commented Domecq.

Movistar is the leading mobile phone network in Chile, with 6.6 million subscribers, and has a reputation in the marketplace as a highly-innovative company. This was recognised in August 2007 by business analyst house Frost & Sullivan, which awarded Movistar first prize in the Product Line Leadership category in 2007 Latin America Mobile Content Services. Movistar was singled out as a leader in launching original and sophisticated products, content creation and positive customer relations.

Telefonica Latin America, parent company of Movistar Chile, also has a full range of mobile, landline and broadband services in: Argentina; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; the United States; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Puerto Rico; Uruguay and Venezuela.

SpinVox is the only voice to text service in the world available in four languages - Spanish, English, French and German. SpinVox already provides Spanish voice-to-text services in the European marketplace and has tailored its Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS) to convert the Spanish spoken in Latin America and specific Chilean vocabulary. SpinVox plans to add Portuguese and Italian language capability to its portfolio in the coming months.

About SpinVox

SpinVox(R) is the world's largest privately-held speech technology company, providing the most successful voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people. SpinVox services are available directly on www.spinvox.com and through leading carriers and service providers globally.

Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies, SpinVox has brought together the two most natural forms of communication - voice and text - to create the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content(TM).

Its award-winning service is not only upgrading voicemail - by converting voicemail to text for delivery as SMS or email messages - but is also empowering people to speak SMS messages or emails to anyone, from any phone. SpinVox also enables people to speak messages directly to their favourite web messaging services such as Facebook, Twitter and many other popular web networks.

As a carrier-class hosted service provider, any network, anywhere in the world can rapidly implement SpinVox and it is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile and Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish and German - with additional languages, Portuguese and Italian, under development.

About Movistar

MOVISTAR is the mobile operator for the Telefonica Group in Chile, with more than 6.6 million subscribers, making it the lead player with a reputation for innovative mobile product and service launches. The Great Places to Work(R) organisation has voted MOVISTAR as one of the top 13 companies to work for in Chile and one of the top 100 companies in Latin America. Furthermore, it was recently voted as the sixth most parent-friendly Chilean company to work for, by the Fundacion Chile Unido (United Chile Foundation).

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