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September 05, 2008

MyCaption Offers Speech-to-Text Service for BlackBerry Bold

By Shamila Janakiraman, TMCnet Contributing Editor

MyCaption specializing in intelligent speech-to-text services for BlackBerry (News - Alert) users announced its support for BlackBerry Bold smartphone. The service offered by MyCaption can work throughout the world wherever BlackBerry smartphone works. The company announced its availability from now on.



 
“Use of email dictation is emerging as a natural alternative to typing, especially for true road warriors”, said Vipul Bhatt, CEO of MyCaption.  “We wanted to be sure that our service was ready on Day One to help the users get the most out of their BlackBerry Bold smartphone. With its improved screen, rich email text, and support for 3G as well as Wi-Fi, it offers an attractive new choice to them.”
 
MyCaption offers the speech-to-text service to BlackBerry Pearl, Curve and 8800 smartphone users. The service is enhanced with text-review capability, privacy-protection options which are most suitable for enterprise connectivity, a customizable dictionary and accurate transcription of spoken messages of up to 3 minutes.
 
In order to serve users with different needs, various monthly plans have been designed. These are expected to meet the needs of professional mobile users specially. A free trial offer can be used by customers available for all supported models at a free trail registration page.
 
Users can also upgrade to the latest version by clicking on the “upgrade” feature present in the MyCaption application. To reply to any email, users have to click ‘Menu/Reply (MyCaption)’ and speak the response. After completing the user has to click on ‘Done’. This will send the reply at once.
 
For replying to all ‘Menu/Reply to All (MyCaption)’ has to be selected and reply should be spoken out. At the end, user has to click on Done to send the message.
The easy way to compose an email is to click ‘Compose (MyCaption)’ and naturally speak the names of the recipients, subject and the message. After filling in all the details of all favorite contacts on My Account Webpage, typing in of the same addresses repeatedly is avoided.
 
In the standard way of composing email user has to click on Compose Email, fill in recipients and subject, and then click on Menu/Dictate (MyCaption) and start speaking. This method allows sending of email to any recipient without need for uploading any contact information to the system.
 
When there is a need to add text to a message before forwarding it, message can be dictated instead of typing in usual manner. Forward/Dictate (MyCaption) offers this facility.
 
The service also allows users to post notes to themselves. User has to click on Compose (MyCaption) and speak out a note including a message which could also be a birthday reminder note.
 
California-based MyCaption.com, Inc. is a BlackBerry Alliance Member which delivers intelligent speech-to-text services to mobile professionals.
 

Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray







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