Lend voice to your mail

ENS Economic Bureau, Hyderabad June 27: Now you can lend voice to your email! Thanks to VoiceMe, a new service launched by the Tata Cellular for the first time in the country, allows you to receive or send voice messages using Tata network.

The technology convert text messages of any size sent to a cellular phone, either from a cellular phone or a computer, into voice messages and plays them over the user’s mobile phone, according to Tata Cell vice-president (marketing, sales and customer service) Subramanian Iyer said.

This service, based on the IVR (interative voice response) system, is available free of cost for a period of one month to Tata’s post-paid subscribers. They can logon to the service by dialing 229898.This number can only be accessed from Tata Cellular connection.

Subscribers need no password to access Voiceme from their cell phones. The CLI (calling line identification) facility in Voiceme captures the cellular number of the user and provides access. But users need to enter a password to access Voiceme from web.

"Automatic text - to- speech conversion and Indianised txt speech are the important futures of Voiceme," SSTIL, president Prakash Shukla said.

We have always been inventing new products. With the introduction of Voiceme.We bring yet another innovative product to our customers in AP," Tata Cell chief operating officer S K Subramaniam, said after launching the service.


Source: Indian Express, June 28, 2001 edition