Spin-my-Blog Post
So, I’ve been with SpinVox and there is Spin-my-Blog products ___ and unfortunately I hadn’t been playing with it as much as I wanted to and the big reason is because SpinVox is a very destructive technology. If you think about it, I really think leading up till last I don’t know a yr and half, 2 yrs mobile technology has been all about the data you know how fast data speed can we get what different applications on the phone can we use data for and all these different things and SpinVox comes along and let’s you interact with the internet without using any data at all.
Voice-to-Screen messaging - powered by SpinVox
**Edit** Well, to be honest, Spinvox somewhat butchered that post. I meant to say…
that I’ve been playing with SpinVox and their Spin-my-Blog product for a little bit, though not nearly as much as I’d like. The big reason is because SpinVox is a *disruptive* technology. If you think about it, leading up to the past year and a half, 2 years, mobile technology has been all about the data. How fast can you get it, and what different applications on the phone we can use data for. Spinvox comes along and lets you interact with the internet without using any data at all. (this is where Spinvox cuts off. Apparently there’s a timer limit that prevents long tirades).
With Spinvox, blogging is freed to be anywhere. Deaf people can use Spinvox to get their voicemail automatically sent as an SMS (I’m really interested in this as well, as I hate dialling in to get my voicemail). Spinvox also enables blind people to blog, and to use products such as Twitter or Jaiku (kind of. They still miss the community aspect, but they get the micro-blogging aspect easily). I’m also looking forward to using SpinVox in a few different ways in the future.
What do you think? Do you agree that there’s a whole world of technology being ignored around voice and voice-to-text and text-to-voice applications in the mobile arena? Or do you think that data is the way to go, and that voice will dissappear soon?
The whole voice-activated dictation is troublesome mostly, but worthwhile if you can moderate your speech pattern and use good equipment. I use an Olympus DSS330 with Pro dictation stuff (not consumer level stuff) and transcribe it with Dragon Naturally speaking. It takes quite a bit of practice to get comfortable, and better equipment and software than the phone manufacturers can provide at this point. It’s never going to be as easy as it seems.
Well, considering your initial SpinVox post, the technology has come a long way, but it also has a ways to go before becoming 100% accurate. I’d say it won’t be long before it is very useful and begins to attract the attention of a more mainstream audience.
> Or do you think that data is the way to go,
> and that voice will dissappear soon?
Yes. Voice will disappear. People will stop talking, and they will communicate with each other only in binary numbers. In the long run, people’s tongues and ears will disappear, as an unnecessary side-track in the human evolution.