Addition of Speech-to-Text Capabilities Makes YouMail the Most
Comprehensive Consumer Voicemail Service
LAS VEGAS--(Business Wire)--
YouMail (www.youmail.com), the mobile industry's premier consumer
voicemail service, today announced a new transcription capability that
will enable users to receive voicemails converted to text. Users who
opt-in will receive automatically transcribed voicemail messages to
their email inbox or via text message to their mobile phone or PDA.
The transcription service is available now for free through a beta
program, with general availability expected later in 2008.
"We continue to make YouMail more fun and more useful, while
keeping it very easy to use," said Alex Quilici. "We are the only
voicemail service leveraging its user community to build a better
voicemail experience, first in greetings, and now in transcription."
YouMail users have the opportunity to help improve the
transcription service through interactive feedback. After a user
receives a transcribed voicemail, they have the opportunity to rate
the quality of the transcription, and identify any possible
discrepancies. The system then uses this feedback to improve the
accuracy of its transcriptions over time. This feature, unique to
YouMail, allows users to participate in building the most accurate
speech-to-text voicemail service on the market.
A Growing List of New, Free Features
Unlike many companies focused on speech-to-text, YouMail offers
consumers a variety of free voicemail services. YouMail users can
personalize greetings based on caller ID - recording greetings
themselves, or easily choosing from a large and growing library of
user-generated greetings and away messages. Recently, YouMail also
introduced "smart greetings," where YouMail can automatically greets
callers with their own name. YouMail users can also access their cell
phone voicemail over the web or in their e-mail, easily share special
voicemails, and save them forever.
For more information on YouMail speech-to-text, smart greetings or
all of its other free features, visit www.youmail.com.
About YouMail
YouMail, Inc is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA. YouMail provides
a free, dramatically better cell phone voicemail service that allows
users to better express their personality and be more productive
through a collection of unique and powerful features, and the
leveraging of the YouMail community of users. The service has a
growing set of distribution partnerships with major mobile service and
content providers. To learn more and sign up for the free YouMail
service, go to http://www.youmail.com.
Racepoint Group
Derek Brookmeyer, 415-694-6702
dbrookmeyer@racepointgroup.com
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