Features:  

Speak a message, then SpinVox will use voice recognition technology to turn your spoken message into a text message and send it to wherever you’d like. Maybe to your friend to confirm plans for lunch, posting a Tweet or getting a quick email reminder off to your inbox.

SpinVox has a voice conversion system that will change your words to text. If it doesn’t know or recognize a word, it flags it and human associates can translate the word and make sure your text is correct. There is some lag time between when you speak the words and when the text finally arrives wherever it needs to go, but for relatively short messages (like the average length of a text message) it translates to text and sends it on within 2 or 3 minutes.

It’s available through Skype, working with major cell phone carriers to get their service included on calling plans, probably part of the data package. The pricing varies depending on what kind of services you’d like. Obviously if you opt for everything it’s going to be more expensive and prices vary depending on where you are. For example in some services $9.99 a month will do 55 voice messages translated to text. Some services even offer pay-per-message.

Usefulness:  

The beauty of SpinVox is that it is useful in so many scenarios. For instance, SpinVox is a safer alternative to texting while driving. But it's also much more convenient and faster than actual texting, unless you are a current record holder for speed texting. The SpinVox system is also a great way to post text to micro-blogs like Twitter without taking the time to type it out.

New Technology:  

The voice recognition technology isn't necessarily new, but SpinVox has put a new, well, spin on the old voice recognition techniques. If the tranlation engine doesn't recognize a word, a real human steps in to identify what you said. But the system then remembers that word from then on and is able to recognize it in the future. So the SpinVox system is constantly improving the more it is used.

Wow Factor:  

The SpinVox service doesn't sound that spectacular at first, but the wow factor really becomes evident once you try it. The voice recognition service is so accurate that it can even distinguish between "want to" and "wanna," making your message more accurate to what you said. It can also distinguish the natural "umm" and "uhh" filler sounds that we make when speaking from actual word and leave them out of the message. It's that kind of accuracy in your message's conversion to text that really impresses us, and we think it'll impress you too.

SpinVox has good intentions, but we think there are a couple things that still need to be worked out. SpinVox needs to finish their negotiations with the major carriers first, for one. But they also need to figure out a way to bring the price down so it’s not much more expensive than regular text messaging.Other than that, it's an exceptionally designed and useful service.