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VentureBeat: SpinVox nabs $25M, demos voice-to-text with mixed results

  • watchthecontext · 3 months ago
    They have no CFO, the CEO and "founder" pays herself in excess of £500K from her "brainchild" that isn't even breaking even. Wonder how the suckers sorry, "investors", feel about it.
  • TimO · 3 months ago
    "The journalists who attended the [SpinVox] demo were reportedly impressed by the automated technology". Reading elsewhere (links below) I'm not so sure how impressed the various journalists were...

    TechCrunch went to the demo. Read what they had to say here:

    http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/08/04/spinvox-sec...

    As did The Register; read what they had to say here:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/04/spinvox...

    And, even though Mobile Industry Review decided not to go (since SpinVox wouldn't allow them to use video), read their opinion here:

    http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/08/my_...

    Links to all of the articles and discussions around this breaking SpinVox story here:

    http://delicious.com/spinvox
  • TimO · 3 months ago
    And as an addendum to my earlier "journalists impressed or not" comment above, here is more from El Reg:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/05/spinvox...

    "So we weren't actually looking at technology per se - we were looking at an operational policy that attempts to minimise the time an agent spends trying to decipher the audio. Because time is money. And that's the difference between a good service and a poor one - human skill."
  • Ewan · 3 months ago
    You've been very kind Camille!