LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Answers Demand for Voice Conversion Services From Web-Based Technology Developers Wanting to Build Speech 2.0 Applications

SpinVox, a global leader in voice to content messaging, has announced its intention to release SpinVox Create, an open API (Application Programming Interface) to VMCS, the world's largest commercial speech platform.

SpinVox Create is a response to an increasing demand for voice conversion services from technology developers who recognise that a speech interface enables the most natural form of communication and who want to build Speech 2.0 applications and are looking for best-in-class open products.

SpinVox intends to deliver SpinVox Create as a simple, straightforward API to leverage its commercial speech platform - which is growing fast and already has 30 million users - to enable any developer with Web access to quickly build commercial speech applications. It will also enable SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further innovations in voice and expand the Speech 2.0 market, complementing SpinVox existing platform development services for Enterprise application partners and Carrier networks.

Voice innovation on Apple, Nokia, Google and Windows Mobile platforms

SpinVox has already created a lead in restoring the primacy of voice with carriers on five continents around the world and with its range of Web 2.0 and Enterprise Unified Communications services. Speaking is also the most efficient way of communicating and further connecting it across the divide to messaging and Web will transform the value of speech, says SpinVox co-founder and CEO, Christina Domecq.

It's that convergence of the voice and text-based worlds that is causing a paradigm shift in how we communicate daily. Now, with the pre-announcement of SpinVox Create we will see a new generation of speech-enabled applications delivering increasing levels of productivity in Enterprise applications and adding Voice to the User Interface innovations on the Apple iPhone, Nokia Series 60, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms, she emphasises.

Developers can pre-register their interest in SpinVox Create in advance of its launch via a Web registration page - www.spinvox.com/services - which will be released at Mobile World Congress 2009 as part of SpinVox brand new Web presence. The site will also feature a brief overview of the API programme that will lead to the development of a SpinVox software development toolkit (SDK).

The first hundred registrations will each receive a package of SpinVox voicemail-to-text conversions worth over GBP200 each.

Drive the next upturn

SpinVox is expecting rapid uptake of the API, particularly in Silicon Valley where SpinVox Web 2.0 Services such as SpinVox Blog and SpinVox Social Networks have been particularly popular.

This is just the beginning of SpinVox extending its business in a three-stage strategy that will be rolled out in the first half of 2009. We believe that Speech 2.0 applications will be one of a cluster of innovations that will drive the next upturn as people are increasingly enabled to re-discover the power of their voice, adds Domecq.

SpinVox has created a new category of real-time, carrier-grade speech conversion and is now helping talented developers take advantage of the next growth opportunity. In particular, the potential for innovation between carriers and the Web is enormous - along with our own innovations we're helping create platforms for the development of world-beating applications and supporting their transformation to carrier-grade services.

About SpinVox

SpinVox is the world's largest commercial speech platform and is implemented as a carrier-class cloud service which is used daily by tens of millions of people for automatic delivery of converted speech to SMS text, email and web environments.

By pioneering significant innovations in speech recognition and mass market services available through any network worldwide, SpinVox(R) has created the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content(TM) in order to deliver new value from everyday user behaviour.

SpinVox services are available directly on http://www.spinvox.com, through leading carriers and through new media, Unified Communications and other service providers globally.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS) - protected by over 60 patents worldwide - which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. Developed by the Cambridge, UK-based SpinVox Advanced Speech Group; VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.

SpinVox is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers Wireless, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile, Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.

Free trials of the SpinVox Memo, Blast and Blog services are available through the website, http://www.spinvox.com. To find out about free VIP SpinVox voicemail trials please contact the SpinVox press office on spinvox@porternovelli.co.uk.

For Media Enquiries: Jane Henry, SpinVox Global PR Director, T: +44-(0)20-7965-2000, M: +44-(0)7941-941-794, Jane.henry@spinvox.com