Voicemail-to-Text Comes to Alltel Phones

Published: December 18, 2007, 9:05 am

You're in a meeting, and silently receive your latest voicemail -- as a text message. That service could become more common on cell phones after Monday's announcement that Alltel Wireless and SpinVox are launching a new voicemail-to-text service. The companies said that this is the first time one of the five largest U.S. carriers has offered customers the option of receiving voicemails as text. The service, called Voice2TXT, is available on any Alltel phone that is capable of text messaging. The message is received in the standard text-message inbox, and so can be retrieved without dialing in or stepping through a series of voice messages. The recipient still can retrieve the original voice message, and can store and forward the converted voicemail as a text message. Beyond Pen-Hunting Voicemail management is the key advantage here, according to Craig Kirkland, Alltel Wireless' director of messaging and voice services. "Our customers will appreciate the fact that they

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