- Answers to Your Questions: A Path to Economic Disaster?
- 5 Ways to Play the Chinese Markets: Analyst
- Meredith Whitney: Turns Bearish
- 3 Stock Plays on Rising College Costs
- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Almost Doubles Wal-Mart Holdings During Summer
- Nov. 16: Unusual Volume Leaders
- Getting to the Heart of the Merck-Abbott Embargo Break
- What MGM's Sale Could Say About Value of Content
- My Ratings on Lowe's & Home Depot: Analyst
- Stocks May Rise Further after Fed Waves on 'Risk Trade'
- Obama in China Grapples with Economic Strains
- Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Boosts Stake in Wal-Mart
- Microsoft Co-founder Allen Diagnosed with Cancer
- Time Warner to Spin Off AOL on December 9
- Gates Boosts Waste Management, Coca Cola Stakes
- What's Kept Stock Rally Going? Fear, Not Confidence
- US Cities With Most Underwater Mortgages
- Citi Shares, A Strange Indicator Of Unemployment?
MOST SHARED
- Stocks Overvalued, Recession Will Return: Meredith Whitney
- Has Twitter's Finest Hours (Seconds) Come and Gone?
- BofA Ex-Counsel: I Was 'Stunned' When I Got Fired
- U.S. May Wind Up Green With Envy
- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Almost Doubles Wal-Mart Holdings During Summer
- CNBC Video: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates - Keeping American Great
- Solar Emerges From A Dark Period
- Time Warner to Spin Off AOL on December 9
- Stanford Receiver to Release Funds Of Frozen Acounts
- Millions May Have to Repay Part of Obama Tax Credit
Text Size 
 |
Kevork Djansezian / AP A new service is offering voicemails in text form on your Blackberry. |
"We feel that the market for voicemail in the United States is about thirty to forty billion messages per month," James Siminoff, CEO of Simulscribe, said on "Morning Call." His company has developed technology that turns voicemails into e-mail. The voice recognition software's benefits include time-savings, the ability to see all your messages at once, and freedom from having to jot down numbers. The cost: $10 a month for the first forty messages; after that, each message costs 25 cents.
British company Spinvox offers a similar service and will offer its services free in the U.S. for one year. More traditional answering services, such as phonewire.com, use live operators who transcribe voicemails into text. "Every telephone has voicemail, and I believe in the next ten to fifteen years every phone is going to have this particular solution," said Matt Rygelski, President of phonewire.com
While more and more companies are trying to cash in on simplifying this task, these services still allow users to access their voicemail the old fashioned way--in case they miss the sound of that automated voice.
- Where, what, how.
- CNBC's Jim Goldman asks: Has the sun begun to set on Twitter? Data suggests its best days are over.
- Everyone wanted a piece of Madoff's "Bullship"--the famous buoy sold for $7,500 at auction. You won't believe these prices.
- De Loach Vineyards is selling its pinot noir the old fashioned way, helping to cut energy and transportation costs.
- Why are the Chinese concerned about the progress of U.S. health care legislation?
- CNBC's Maria Bartiromo talks to rapper Snoop Dogg about brand identity in both business and music.
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes