Hmm

Nice service idea, but really why are they doing in on 0800? Most people will want to use this service when they are on a mobile, and not near paper/pen etc.. 0800 from a mobile, now 17p per minute on an 02 tariff..this service will really start to get expensive quite quickly...

I find texting/emailing myself from a Blakcberry and leaving it as unread email works pretty well for me.

I know the reference to PKD's short story, but...

I call a number, leave a message, it is transcribed and the text mailed back to me with a voice recording.

How thick do you have to be to need such a service let alone use it?

I've constructed a mashup from two items of existing open source technology, the biro and the notepad. I'm keeping the details secret for now until I've persuaded someone to back my idea via an IPO. I intend to make money by offering support and tutorials on how to use it.

It performs a similar function to reQuall (with greater accuracy) at very low cost.

Please contact me for details and also send cheques to gain advance share allocations.

nyip prook yardle spick crob yadda yadda crap!

Good idea, it should be offered as a (god help me for writing this) web 2 app though. A working on-line dictation service would be very usefull to the keyboardialy challenged.

Tricky stuff voice recognition, kind of falls into the same class as image and facial recognition. There have been a lot of "who do you look like" try-it-out apps on the web of late (grab yer tinfoil hat) but who stands to gain the most from them?

These services can give great value for the developers by testing the applications in the real-world but they also can provide a lot of data. Data such as:

Email address

Telephone number

IP address

Voice fingerprint

Digital characteristics profile

Photo

Ok, my tinfoil hat is made from 10mm billet aluminium but if I was trying out any of these apps I would be using someone else's phone or photo just for the dis-information value.

cheers