I love Spinvox, I really do. For someone like me, who NEVER checks voice mail, it is a perfect service. I redirect my unanswered calls to a Spinvox number, and my voice mails are transcribed to text and sent to me via email. Since I get my email on my blackberry, it works perfectly. However, since the messages are human transcribed (in the UK I believe), they often have trouble with non standard, proper nouns like names and places. These errors and their general inability to transcribe certain words is certainly funny, but in many cases, they end up rendering the service completely useless. I get a lot of uselessly translated voice mails like the one below, and when I say useless, you can see what I mean.
What the? This could go in so many different directions.
“Hey, it’s your mother. Call me I am being chased by ninjas. Bye.”
“Hey, it’s Tuesday. Call me I am pregnant. Bye.”
“Hey, it’s the doctor. Call me I have your test results and you have an hour. Bye.”
“Hey, it’s Jessic Alba. Call me I am in love with you. Bye.”
As I said, I do get a fair amount of these, so maybe I will start posting them a bit more. They are pretty hilarious. To me anyways.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Will Jessica Alba call me if I get Sponvox?