Had some hassles with Vodafone configs and phone changes and it got lost in the mix. Happy to be back.
You should have a funwall for people to post the bad conversions. Users could vote for the funniest and get a prize? On the serious side, it could help spot patterns too. For some bizarre reason you seem to be able to handle the tougher Cork accent better than the easier Dublin one. I'm so gonna get mugged by the Cork Jaikuers if I walk out the door now.
@ciotog - Getting the voicemails by SMS and email is just a killer app for me. My Inbox acts as a to-do list for me a lot of the time whereas I forget about voicemails within seconds of listening to them. I also read a lot faster than most people speak :-)
Wouldn't mind trying it out but am slightly wary on how it will dal with the crappy audio quality of some of the voicemessages that Iget. Also, is it multi-lingual?
@EvertB - Yeah it does suffer with poor speech quality (as do I). But I've never failed to get the gist of a message and it always lists the number it came from (if available) in the SMS and email. You can also dial in to listen if the conversion makes no sense to you.
@Evertb - SpinVox is available in four languages: English, French, Spanish and German.
And @conoro makes a good point - SpinVox keeps your voicemail just in case you want to listen to it anyway. That fact gets lost sometimes when people are looking to signup.
@ciotog - Let me know where 'these shores' are and I'll look into it - ;)
@PatPhelan - Simon Crowfoot set me up when I gave him my details way back. Presumably this was to get around Ireland not being listed in drop-downs. I used my Voda Ireland number. @whatleydude can probably sort you out.
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Nice to have you back.
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1 year, 10 months ago by SpinVox
Had some hassles with Vodafone configs and phone changes and it got lost in the mix. Happy to be back.
You should have a funwall for people to post the bad conversions. Users could vote for the funniest and get a prize? On the serious side, it could help spot patterns too. For some bizarre reason you seem to be able to handle the tougher Cork accent better than the easier Dublin one. I'm so gonna get mugged by the Cork Jaikuers if I walk out the door now.
1 year, 10 months ago by conoro
Must look into Spinvox - I'd certainly rather read voicemails than listen to them.
1 year, 10 months ago by ciotog
@ciotog - do so sir, not only have I not listened to a voicemail in months but I hear they have a pretty good blog too ;)
@conoro - It's an idea that we've played around with internally for a while now... I'll definitely be passing your feedback on.
I love this place.
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
@ciotog - Getting the voicemails by SMS and email is just a killer app for me. My Inbox acts as a to-do list for me a lot of the time whereas I forget about voicemails within seconds of listening to them. I also read a lot faster than most people speak :-)
1 year, 10 months ago by conoro
Wouldn't mind trying it out but am slightly wary on how it will dal with the crappy audio quality of some of the voicemessages that Iget. Also, is it multi-lingual?
1 year, 10 months ago by Evertb
@conoro I love the idea of blog postings via the service as well. @whatleydude How long before it hits these shores?
1 year, 10 months ago by ciotog
@EvertB - Yeah it does suffer with poor speech quality (as do I). But I've never failed to get the gist of a message and it always lists the number it came from (if available) in the SMS and email. You can also dial in to listen if the conversion makes no sense to you.
1 year, 10 months ago by conoro
@ConorO Did you sign up as a VodaUK customer? It doesn't look like SpinVox does the People's Republic of Cork yet.
1 year, 10 months ago by topgold
@Evertb - SpinVox is available in four languages: English, French, Spanish and German.
And @conoro makes a good point - SpinVox keeps your voicemail just in case you want to listen to it anyway. That fact gets lost sometimes when people are looking to signup.
@ciotog - Let me know where 'these shores' are and I'll look into it - ;)
1 year, 10 months ago by whatleydude
@topgold - I got in as Blognation Ireland editor. Sssssh, don't tell em they don't officially support Ireland yet and BN is no more.
1 year, 10 months ago by conoro
@ConorO I thought you might have figured out a Spinvox-Cubic angle.
1 year, 10 months ago by topgold
Haven't figured out the Voicemail and call-forwarding on the Cubo-Phone. If I did, it would be killer with SpinVox.
1 year, 10 months ago by conoro
What a wonderful comment steam ! Voice to text is notorious to do well and spincox gettinf some dodge reviews ! (sic)
1 year, 10 months ago by PaulSweeney
@whatleydude Mmm, I get a lot of messages in Dutch. Any chance of that ever becoming available?
1 year, 10 months ago by Evertb
@conoro I keep getting rejected when I try to set up UK number as my voicemail, any idea's, your vodafone same as me
1 year, 10 months ago by PatPhelan
@PatPhelan - Simon Crowfoot set me up when I gave him my details way back. Presumably this was to get around Ireland not being listed in drop-downs. I used my Voda Ireland number. @whatleydude can probably sort you out.
1 year, 10 months ago by conoro