TwitterFone Translates to Broadcast Happiness
Published by Rodney Rumford May 7th, 2008 in twitter.
TwitterFone
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We are testing a new apha version of a service called TwitterFone and this is exactly the service I had told someone 3 months ago that I wanted to see built off of the Twitter API. (I am still waiting for video: anyone at Seesmic or kyte.tv listening?)
TwitterFone allows you to easily send audio messages to twitter using voice. You simply dial the TwitterFone number and leave your message. TwitterFone will then automatically translate the spoken word message into text and post it to twitter for you automatically along with a hyperlink to listen to the audio message. We found the translation of spoken word to text to be nearly 100% accurate which is highly impressive.
People can see the tweet and follow a hyperlink to listen to the actual message in your voice. The use cases for this application are many, let your imagination run wild. Sometimes you need to convey to your followers the emotion that comes through best with the inflections from your voice. The audio quality was very good. The solution is simple, straightforward and has a clean UI. Once people use TwitterFone we suspect that they will become fans.
How could the service improve? It would be nice if there were an archive page of all the TwitterFone tweets that are done by a user and if you could search a particular twitter user and see a list of their audio messages. It would also be nice if you could see how many times your message was listened to and if people could respond directly with an audio response. The monetization model for this service is easy. 
Video Demo of TwitterFone in Action
Translated Text that Was Auto-posted to Twitter. See message here
Hyperlink from tweet takes people here to listen and also read the message.
Technorati Tags: twitter, twitterfone
7 Responses to “TwitterFone Translates to Broadcast Happiness”
- 1 Pingback on May 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Thanks Rodney for this review.
We are working on improving TwitterFone. We are in early alpha version. Much more to come soon!
Florian,
Duly noted and corrected as to being in alpha not beta. I knew it was very early stages, and for an early stage offering twitterfone has the earmarks of a very useful service. Keep us posted on updates. Keep Creating!
Very cool demo. I’m curious to test it’s accuracy with voice recognition. The last time I remember using VR software was around 2000 and it wasn’t that great back then. If you have any spare invites I would really appreciate you sharing. Thanks Rodney!
Rodney:
Great review. I’ve been following via RSS your blog for some time now. first time commenter
wanted to know how you got the invite. i signed up yesterday at twitterfone.com to get invite but not sure when its coming. so it would be great to somehow get an invite to do a review on my blog as well.
thanks!
Also see Twittergram - both Scoble and I recorded the first cries of our babies using Twittergram. http://twittergram.com
Jesse,
I remember when Robert did that when his son Milan was born and I thought that was amazing. Do you have the tweet url of your newborn?