Voice-to-Text Conversion Leader Compiles Up-to-the-Moment List of Words Actually Used in Conversations Around the Country.

LONDON -. In a country where blootered, laggered, airlocked, lashed, mortalled and drunk mean the same thing, understanding Britain’s regional dialects can be a challenge for anyone. One system, SpinVox's D2, has succeeded where other men and machines have stumbled, and now boasts an extensive vocabulary that allows it to understand the Scouse, Glaswegian, Geordie or any other regional accents or dialects, that are being used in everyday conversation.

D2, the multilingual system behind SpinVox pioneering voice-to-text conversion service, has 'learnt' to understand these regional variations in the English language, so that voicemail messages sent via SpinVox can be accurately converted to text and sent either as SMS text messages, emails, memos, blog posts, or even social network sites.

With a formidable combination of artificial intelligence, voice recognition and natural linguistics, D2 is learning new words and expressions every day. In fact only 30 per cent of D2's vast vocabulary can be found in standard English language dictionaries. The rest has been collated as a result of D2's amazing ability to learn new words at an average of 150 words a week.

D2's UK regional dictionary currently includes words such as:

  • docky n. Norfolk. a snack
  • blart v. Midlands. to cry
  • brammer n. W. Scotland. an outstanding person or thing
  • gennell n. N. England. alleyway
  • dreckly adv. S. West. immediately
  • hoy v. Cumbria. to throw
  • hacky adj. Tyneside. dirty
  • jangle v. Liverpool. to gossip
  • spogs n. Yorks. confectionary
  • snappin n. Stoke-on-Trent. food

Voxgeist

Former Cambridge University speech expert and director of SpinVox's Advanced Speech Group, Dr. Tony Robinson, said: "The English language is in a constant state of evolution. One might assume that UK English is a fairly straightforward language but the truth is it is very complex and changes rapidly. With regional dialects, new slang words and the fact that we’re incorporating words from other languages, D2 is constantly updating the SpinVox system to build the world’s largest dictionary of spoken language in the messages that we convert, right now. We call this the 'Voxgeist'."

The SpinVox voicemail-to-text service allows users to receive their voicemails as SMS text messages, e-mails or both, offering time savings, efficiency and convenience over calling-in to retrieve voicemails. In addition, SpinVox provides other groundbreaking and innovative voice-to-screen services, such as:

  • SpinVox Social Networks – Update your Facebook, Twitter or Jaiku page by speaking into your phone.
  • SpinVox Blog – Speak into your phone and SpinVox will convert it to text and post it right to your blog.
  • SpinVox Memo – Dictate memos and reminders into your phone and SpinVox will convert them to text and e-mail them to your inbox.
  • SpinVox Text – Dictate a message that SpinVox converts to text and sends to one or multiple mobile phones as SMS text messages.