Vtxt

Vtxt is a form of visual voicemail developed by CallWave, Inc., where a mobile phone voicemail message is transcribed into text and sent to the recipient as a text message.Meisel, William. “CallWave Introduces Service that Transforms Voicemail into Text”, "Speech Strategy News", April 2007, pp. 13-14.] Calore, Michael. “Voicemail-as-Text Service Quiets the Ringing in your Ears”, "Wired", June 25, 2007.] Vtxt was launched on June 25, 2007.Wolinsky, Howard. “Voice-mail Service Cuts to the Chase”, "Chicago Sun-Times", June 25, 2007.] Biggs, John. “CallWave to Launch Voice-to-Text Service Monday”, "TechCrunch", June 21, 2007.] Vtxt uses speech recognition technology to capture and artificial intelligence to summarize the gist of the voicemail in about 125 characters; there is no live operator involvement.Needleman, Rafe. “Highly Useful: CallWave Transcribes your Voicemail”, "CNET Webware", June 25, 2007.] As explained in the April 2007 issue of "Speech Strategy News", CallWave drew on a vast amount of voicemail messages and “identified a large number of statistically significant voicemail-specific behaviors in them” to open up “a new class of application” in the large vocabulary continuous speech recognition space, when developing this technology. Users can also hear, read, archive, and search their messages on a personal webpage called the PhonePage.

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