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SpinVox is a global speech technology company, headquartered in Marlow
Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the River Thames, four miles south-south-west of High Wycombe, and four miles north west of Maidenhead....
, UK and New York
New York

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, NY. It provides voice-to-text conversion services via its patented Voice Message Conversion System (VMCS ). The company delivers services for carrier markets, including wireless, fixed, VoIP and cable, as well as for unified communications
Unified communications

Unified communications refers to a trend in business to simplify and integrate all forms of communications. It is typically a software program and infrastructure improvement....
, enterprise and Web 2.0 environments.

The Voice Message Conversion System (VMCS) works by combining speech technologies with live learning capabilities and human intelligence.






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SpinVox is a global speech technology company, headquartered in Marlow
Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the River Thames, four miles south-south-west of High Wycombe, and four miles north west of Maidenhead....
, UK and New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, NY. It provides voice-to-text conversion services via its patented Voice Message Conversion System (VMCS ). The company delivers services for carrier markets, including wireless, fixed, VoIP and cable, as well as for unified communications
Unified communications

Unified communications refers to a trend in business to simplify and integrate all forms of communications. It is typically a software program and infrastructure improvement....
, enterprise and Web 2.0 environments.

The Voice Message Conversion System (VMCS) works by combining speech technologies with live learning capabilities and human intelligence. It is developed by the SpinVox Advanced Speech Group based in Cambridge, UK, led by Cambridge academic entrepreneur Dr. Tony Robinson and includes Cambridge University Professor Phil Woodland.

The company was founded in 2003 by Christina Domecq and Daniel Doulton. Privately held, it has raised more than $200 million (US) in funding from institutions such as Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs , is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, Security services, and investment management....
, ABN Amro, Gartmore, and Allen & Co, and private equity investors such as Martin Hughes of Toscafund, Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse and Peter Wood, the founder of Direct Line, eSure and Sheila’s Wheels.

SpinVox voice-to-text conversion services include voicemail-to-text, speak-a-text, blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
 posts, social network
Social network

A social network is a social structure made of nodes that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual network, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade....
 updates, blast and memo messages.

SpinVox has launched voicemail-to-text and speak-a-text services with carrier networks including: Telstra
Telstra

Telstra or Telstra Corporation Ltd , is an Australian telecommunications and Electronic media company, formerly Public ownership by the Australian government....
 (Australia), Vodafone
Vodafone

Vodafone is a mobile network operator with its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about ?75 billion ....
 Spain; Rogers
Rogers

Rogers may refer to:...
 (Canada); Telus
TELUS

TELUS is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol , voice, entertainment and video....
 (Canada); SaskTel
SaskTel

Saskatchewan Telecommunications is a provincial Crown Corporation operating under the authority of the Saskatchewan Telecommunications Act.SaskTel provides telecommunications services to 13 cities, 535 smaller communities and surrounding rural areas, including 49,000 farms....
 (Canada); Cincinnati Bell
Cincinnati Bell

Cincinnati Bell is the dominant telephone company for Cincinnati and Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area in the U.S. states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky....
 (USA); Alltel Wireless (now Verizon, USA); Movistar
Movistar

Movistar is a major mobile phone operator owned by Telef?nica M?viles. It operates in Spain and in many Latin American countries. Many Movistar networks were acquired from BellSouth....
 (Chile) ; Vodacom
Vodacom

Vodacom is a pan-African mobile phone company, and was the first cellular network in South Africa. It provides GSM service to more than 35 million customers in South Africa, Vodacom Tanzania , Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
 (South Africa) and Skype
Skype

Skype is software that allows users to make voice over Internet Protocol. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee....
.

The company has announced enterprise and unified communications solution agreements with organizations including: Avaya
Avaya

Avaya Inc. is a privately held telecommunications company which specializes in enterprise telephony and call center technology. Formerly the Business Communications unit of Lucent Technologies, it was Spin-off on October 1, 2000 with 34,000 employees....
; eServe Global; ViCorp; Encoded; Centrica
Centrica

Centrica plc is a large multinational utility company, based in the United Kingdom but also with interests in North America and Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index....
 (British Gas); EMAP Radio
EMAP Radio

Bauer Radio is a UK-based division of Bauer Verlagsgruppe.The Bauer network is divisible into several main groups: The Big City Network, Magic Radio, Bauer Radio London, and Bauer Digital Radio....
; PHS; National House Building Council (NHBC), and Boots Group
Boots Group

The Boots Company, commercially known as Boots is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country....
. It is a member of the Microsoft Windows Developer Advisory Council (DAC) The company has also announced Internet and media partnerships with organizations including: LiveJournal; News International; WNYC
WNYC

WNYC is a public broadcasting radio station and formerly a city owned television station in New York City, New York. Broadcasting from lower Manhattan, it is a member station of National Public Radio and carries a mixed news and varied music format on two radio frequencies....
 Radio; EMI Records
EMI Records

EMI Records is a record label, founded by EMI in 1972 in music as the successor label to the Columbia Graphophone Company label. The global success that EMI enjoyed with pop music in the 1960s also exposed trade mark issues as EMI only had the rights to some of its trade marks, most notably His Master's Voice and Columbia, in parts of the wo...
;Polydor Records
Polydor Records

Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the United Kingdom, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group....
 and MTV
MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
.

In 2008 the company hired speech industry stalwarts including Richard Cohen, who was responsible for designing the first voice mail applications deployed on public telephone networks in North America and Japan, and David Thomson, the former CTO for Lucent Speech Solutions who developed the speech technology behind systems, such as 444-FILM, that have handled over 10 billion calls.

In February 2009, SpinVox announced it will encourage access to its speech platform through an open API to enable any developer to create speech-to-text based Web or mobile applications.

In February 2009 the company also launched conversion services for Italian and Portuguese languages, adding to currently supported languages: English; French; Spanish and German.

The company has 14 offices around the globe including Marlow, Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
, New York, Atlanta, Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
, Santiago
Santiago

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, São Paulo
São Paulo

S?o Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, and along with Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City is among the four largest metropolitan regions of the world....
, Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
, Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
, Johannesburg
Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Joburg, is the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the province Capital of Gauteng the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa....
, and Sydney
Sydney

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