Talk and hear your e-mail on Tatacell

Our Business Bureau, Hyderabad June 27: Tata Cellular, mobile service provider in Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday launched Voiceme, a telephone- internet application which enables the customer to send and receive e-mail on the cellphone, doing away with the need of PC. This is for the first time in India that a company is offering this facility.

Every customer would be given an e-mail ID for availing the facility. At the same time, she/he can also route e-mail messages recived on other addresses to this mail.

Voiceme service converts text messages sent to a cellular phone either from a cellular phone or a computer into voice messages and plays them over the user’s cellphone.Long messages, even with the text or HTML attachments, can be sent over voiceme, S.K.Subramanian, chief operating officer of Tatacell, told reporters here.

Customer can also sent their messages in their own voice. These messages are carried by the cellular provider in the wave file format and the recipients can listen to them either on their computers or on their cellular phones.

The voicme service, being introduced with the help of Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd. A Tata group company. Would be offered free of charge as an introductory offer for all post paid.


Source: Deccan Chronicle, June 28, 2001 edition