Tata Cell unveils Voice-based service

Our Bureau, Hyderabad June 27: TATA Cellular Ltd, one of the two mobile telephone operators in Andhra Pradesh along with Bharti Mobile Ltd, on Wednesday launched an innovative value added service called VoiceMe which it claims is first such initiative in the country.

Developed by the Chennai based Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd., a Tata enterprise, this voice-based solution powered by HelloNet uses speech recognition technologies to convert text messages to voice interface.

VoiceMe service converts text messages of any size sent to a cellular phone or a computer into voice messages and plays them over the user’s cellular phone.

Long messages, even with text or HTML attachments, can be sent over the voiceme, unlike the other current e-mail or SMS services.


Source: Businessline, June 28, 2001 edition