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Websitepinger.com
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[map] San Jose, USA
97 S. 2nd Street,Suite 210
San Jose, CA, 95113
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Pinger is a voice to text service. Their product is quite simple and is as follows: Pinger gives users a local phone number; when they want to use the service they dial the number where Pinger then gives them a prompt. Users then simply say the name of the person they want to call. Formerly known as VoiceVault, Pinger uses voice recognition (from Tellme) to look up contact details on the person’s phone. Then, Pinger gives users a second prompt when users speak message into the phone. Pinger then sends the audio message to the person’s email account, or to their phone via an SMS audio file.

Co-founders Woock and Sipher were executives at the personal digital assistant company Handspring. Once users leave a message with someone, via email, that person gets a message asking them whether they want to sign up with Pinger too. Competitors include SpinVox, Jott, and SimulScribe.

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Websitepinger.com
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Pinger allows users to trade voice messages with anyone’s mobile phone in over 20 countries. Pinger is free and can work on nearly any mobile phone around the world.

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Joe Sipher - December 31, 2007 at 3:28am
This description is incorrect. Pinger is not a voice-to-text service. It is purely a voice messaging service. By keeping it purely voice, Pinger has created a new communication methodology for intentionally sent voice messages. This new communication tool enables new applications like the ability to reply and forward voice messages independent of carrier or mobile phone type. Also, users can send messages to groups very easily. Check out www.pinger.com for more info.

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