A couple of weeks ago, I started using the SimulScribe service. The service transcribes the voice mails on your cell phone and send them to you via e-mail. It's a cool service, and it works in theory. I'm guessing that the voice mails are transcribed offshore, because some of them come across with pretty odd translations with what I'm saying. I don't know if the transcriber is just getting bad audio quality, or what it is, but the 20% of the time, I can't figure out the message because they mis-transcribe the the name. Other times, people leave odd messages just to make them amusing to read. Here's an example of both from Will:
Hi, Dave. It's Lil. I just wanted to let you know that I'm bringing sexy back and you don't know how to act. I also wanted to say that I'm a cowboy on a steel horse high ride, and I'm wanted dead or alive. Yeah, I'm wanted dead or alive.When the service sends you an e-mail, it sends you a .WAV audio file of the voice mail, so you can file messages (like the one above) away for future reference. I like the service, it's a time saver, but it's only free for the first month. I'm just not sure if it's worth .25/voice mail when I have days like today where I get 15 messages.
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Dave,
I work at SimulScribe and would like to thank you for trying our product - I'm happy to hear you like it. The transcriptions are done by a mix of voice recognition software that we spent three years perfecting. We are constantly testing our system and our transcription accuracy regularly falls between 90 and 93 percent.
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