Voicemail Has Never Been More Visual
Quicktate.com announced the Beta release of its new
speech-to-text service, allowing users
of the iPhone to read their
entire voicemail messages directly on
their iPhones.
"While Apple was the first company to list voicemail messages and allow customers to play them at will, Quicktate has gone one step further by transcribing the entire message into simple text and making it viewable directly on the iPhone," according to Lee Dorfman, Quicktate CEO. "Further, a voice message can be left in Spanish, and delivered to the iPhone in both Spanish and English text" something Dorfman believes no one else is offering.
"The iPhone has raised the level of technology that each of us carries every day," said Kevin Almeroth, associate director of UC Santa Barbara's Center for Information Technology and Society.
In addition to using Quicktate for voicemail, users may also "Quicktate" their own personal notes or memos and receive them back quickly as text.
Dorfman indicated that Quicktate can also enable multiple government agencies to more effectively communicate in times of a disaster. According to Maurice A. Ramirez, Founder of High Alert, LLC, and a Senior Federal Medical Officer with the National Disaster Medical System, "Quicktate has the potential to re-write the rules insofar as how disaster rescue and recovery communications of the future will occur."
According to Dorfman, the Quicktate service is being offered for free during its Beta period. Post-Beta pricing is not yet available.
Quicktate is a spin-off of iDictate.com, a 9 year old provider of telephone and web-based dictation services that has dramatically changed the way business, legal and medical professionals obtain transcribed documents on a global scale.
