Vemail - Mobile Email that's Easy on the Thumbs

This company was mentioned in a NYTimes review of angel funding. The sell voice email for $4.95/month.

Voice Genesis

iPhone Users Find New Apps via Ads

AdMob says users find apps via ads in other apps

AdMob just released some data about how iPhone users discover new apps in the App Store and how they use them once they have downloaded them. According to AdMob, most users download apps from the App Store directly from their phones. Only 7% go through iTunes to download apps. To find new apps, 62% of all respondents searched for a specific app and 60% looked through the lists of top selling apps in the store. AdMob also found that the majority of users (62%) install between 1 and 6 new apps per month and 22% of all iPhone users download more than 11 apps per month.

SpinVox Raises $25M (on top of $200M already raised) for voice-to-text

Via public APIs, mobile apps have already appeared to integrate the service with social networking services like Twitter — an opportunity that CEO Doulton says could be worth some $80 billion...

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Jott has been acquired by Nuance!

With Jott Assistant and Jott for Salesforce, you just call a simple phone number, speak your notes, messages, or updates and hang up. Jott Voicemail works the same way, but your friends, family, and colleagues are the ones leaving the messages when they call your number. Then, Jott takes the spoken messages, turns them into text, and sends them to the right destination via email, text message, or web update. Learn more.

Promptu Systems previewed its ShoutOut mobile at AlwaysOn

A company called Promptu Systems previewed its ShoutOut mobile messaging application currently in development. With ShoutOut, mobile users will be able to send voice messages as text SMS messages, Twitter posts or to other services by voice command.

"We transmit over the data lines for better voice recognition and it's all in real time," said Scott Maddux, vice president of marketing at Promptu.

The text messaging market is hugely popular, so much so that several states have passed legislation making it illegal to text while driving. The typical U.S. mobile subscriber sent and received more SMS text messages than telephones calls last year, according to Nielsen Mobile, which also reports the average mobile customer now sends or receives more than 350 text messages per month.

With ShoutOut, users first hear a playback of the message so they can check it for accuracy with the option to edit or append the message. "This is fully automated, network speech recognition that's scalable and secure with no human transcription," said Maddux.


Yesterday the company announced a deal with Telecom Italia Mobile that makes its voice-to-text messaging application available in Italy on the iPhone via the App Store. ProntoTreno is a new voice-powered Trenitalia service using Promptu's technology, that will let Italian train commuters check schedules and buy train tickets using the iPhone.

http://www.promptu.com/