From`Recessionista` to `Stressurised` - the Downturn Provides a Rich New Vocabulary for SpinVox Voxgeist

2000 Words and Phrases Added to the SpinVox Speech to Text Conversion System
Every Month
LONDON--(Business Wire)--
SpinVox, a global leader in voice to text messaging, has just announced that
2,000 new words and phrases have been added each month to its English language
dictionary, or Voxgeist, over the past quarter.

New additions and multiple meanings used for everyday words are increasingly
more common and the recession has unleashed a wave of verbal dexterity and
inventiveness as people find new ways of describing the economic crisis and its
effect on their everyday lives.

The SpinVox Voxgeist list of most referenced recession-related slang words and
phrases are:

1. `Recessionista`: noun - a frugal follower of fashion who scouts around for
bargains to save money, but still manages to dress fabulously.

2. `Staycation`: noun - a holiday in the country in which you live.

3. `Austerity Chic`: phrase - the ability to still look fashionable despite not
spending more than a few pounds on items.

4. `Skintstint`:adjective - a period of unemployment.

5. `NEETS`abbreviation - someone Not in Employment, Education or Training.

6. `Crunch`:noun - meaning money.

7. `CC`: abbreviation - credit crunch.

8. `Stressurised`: verb - combining stress and pressurised as people fear losing
their jobs and feel they have to work harder.

9. `Bailout`:noun - keeping the banks and failing industries functioning through
Government cash injections.

10. `Primarketing`: verb - selling goods at low prices (like the fashion
retailer Primark).

11. `Zombie Bank`:noun - a bank that has a negative net worth, but continues to
operate because of depositor`s insurance or other governmental intervention.

12. `Decremental`:adjective - the act or process of decreasing or becoming
gradually less; the amount lost by gradual diminution or waste.

13. `Povo` (po-vo): adjective - to be poor. Spawned from the increasing
popularity of new HBO series Summer Heights High, the Aussie slang for poor has
infiltrated the vocabulary of recessionistas everywhere.

14. `Recession depression`:noun - general malaise about the recession that leads
you to spend more money or engage in other acts to try to forget about your
personal financial woes in this economy.

15. `Recession roadkill` :noun - a person who has been laid off because of
recession.

SpinVox multilingual Voice Message Conversion System (VMCS) has 'learned' to
understand these new terms in the English language so that voicemail messages
sent via SpinVox can be accurately converted to text and sent either as SMS text
messages ,emails, memos, blog posts, or even social network sites.

"The English language is ever-changing and the seismic shift in the global
economy is generating in its wake a whole new vocabulary," says Christina
Domecq, SpinVox co-founder and CEO.

"Some of the new words demonstrate people`s attempt at black humour as they
attempt to cope with the situation they are in, whilst others are inventive
combinations of established words which create new meanings. Either way, it`s a
rich new vein of language and we`ve found that`s contributing strongly to the
average 500 new English words that are being added to our system every week.

"The convergence of voice and screen is a thoroughly fascinating moment in the
progression of the way we communicate and what we choose to say, and we`re
looking forward to adding a fresh new vocabulary when the economic upturn
arrives, " adds Domecq.

Language is ever changing and SpinVox is witness to this on a daily basis,
whether it's French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese or English. The Voice
Message Conversion System is learning new words and expressions every day. In
fact only 30 percent of its vast vocabulary can be found in standard language
dictionaries. The rest have been collated as a result of its amazing ability to
learn new words at an average of 500 words a week. Creating the largest spoken
language dictionaries - the SpinVox 'Voxgeist`.

For more information on SpinVox voice to content services including
voicemail-to-text, speak-a-text, blog posts, social network updates, blast and
memo messages, visit www.spinvox.com.

About SpinVox:

SpinVox is the world's largest privately-held speech technology company,
providing the only voice to text messaging services which are used daily by
millions of people and whose user base has grown over twenty-fold in the last 12
months.

Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies which are
protected by over 70 patents worldwide, SpinVox has converged the two most
natural forms of communication - voice and text - to create the fastest-growing
form of messaging: Voice-to-Content.

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

Implemented as a carrier-class cloud service, SpinVox is proven to be able to
easily create value from everyday user behavior using voice and deliver rapid
and easy implementation of low input, sustained high reward services.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System
(VMCS), 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, Skype,
Vonage and Livejournal.

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SpinVox
Ema Linaker
M: +44-(0)7771-770317
Ema.linaker@spinvox.com

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