Needless today, that awfully long chewing out by the significant other via voicemail may cost a pretty-yet-hefty penny once Skype and the SpinVox fees come into play.
The company also said that additional SMS charges (a maximum of three) may apply depending on the length of the voicemail message. However, the service isn't free (naturally), costing consumers €0.20/ £0.17/ $0.25 plus the cost of sending an SMS at standard low Skype rates. SpinVox is a great option for our users to save time on checking their Skype voicemail and receive messages immediately sent to their mobile phone."įor users who are away from Skype, SpinVox can convert the voicemail messages and send the SMS text straight to a mobile phone. "As people continue to spend more time on the move and on their mobile devices, people want to take their Skype conversations with them. "Using SpinVox gives our users added flexibility and convenience over their Skype voicemails," said Mike Bartlett, director of product strategy at Skype. Currently SpinVox can convert voice messages into four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. According to the Skype developers, users who take advantage of the software's voicemail feature can now benefit from "visible voicemail," as the developers brought in SpinVox to convert voice messages into text. Skype announced this morning that SpinVox will now provide voicemail-to-text conversion for SkypeĮbay's Skype, a highly-popular voice-over-IP client featuring an integrated text chat element and voicemail, is used by more than 405 million registrants globally, and is the base of communications for many of us here at Bestofmedia.