For iPhone owners who want to record their voice, Spin Vox has announced the launch of the first SpinVox-enabled application to be available through Apple’s App Store.

Using the SpinVox API (Application Programming Interface) nFinity has been able to rapidly develop a new feature for nFinity’s QuickVoice Pro, the latest version of the award-winning voice recorder that instantly became a Top 100 product in Apple’s App Store when it was released in July 2008.

With QuickVoice you can already conveniently record voice notes, reminders, dictations, meetings, interviews, shopping lists, to do lists, and even entire lectures and multi-session seminars. With the new enhancement, QuickVoice Pro users will be able use their iPhones for the first time to record voice messages which will be automatically converted to text by SpinVox and sent to the email inbox of the user’s choice.

SpinVox API leverages SpinVox VMCS, the world’s largest commercial speech platform– a Cloud service which already has over 30 million users and is growing fast - to enable Speech 2.0 applications to be built and launched quickly. It enables SpinVox to collaborate with third parties to foster further innovations in voice and expand the Speech 2.0 market.

Over 400 developers have already registered interest in SpinVox API and, of these, 20 have been selected by SpinVox to be part of the co-creation programme. Those selected include business efficiency, personal productivity, games and social networking applications on Apple iPhone, Nokia Series 60, and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms.

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The age of maximizing the use of mobile phones and technology is here and apparently it all boils down to the type of software in use. Spirit DSP for its part has deployed a voice processing software in Polycom VVX 1500 business media phones, offering another solution for businessmen on the go.

The Polycom VVX 1500, with Polycom HD Voice, combines a personal video conferencing system with a fully featured voice over IP (VoIP) telephone, open application programming interface (API) and micro-browser for real-time delivery of personalized Web content as well as integration with key business applications. Being a part of TeamSpirit 3.0 Voice&Video Engine, a voice processing solution based on highly efficient G.729ab codec enables Polycom to provide low bit rate mode support on the VVX1500 for those applications that have especially challenging bandwidth requirements on the customer’s network.

SPIRIT’s carrier grade Voice&Video Engines are comprehensive pre-integrated software suites, available on a wide range of platforms including Intel Atom, ARM9E/11, ARM Cortex A8, Marvell PXA, TI OMAP3.

A library of highly optimized, low-MHz speech and video codecs, voice and video synchronization tools, speech enhancement algorithms and network optimizing functionality effectively solve all IP-immanent issues, including echo and noise, delay (jitter), packet loss and last mile congestion. SPIRIT carrier-grade engines have low resource consumption, which results in lower processor load, allowing users to multitask, running several applications simultaneously.

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Never get lost again or waste time when you are traveling with the TripIt iPhone app. This free application for the Apple iPhone displays a traveler’s detailed itinerary on their mobile phone, so they have all their travel plans at their fingertips.

TripIt is a popular service for organizing and sharing travel plans. With the new TripIt for iPhone, travelers now have mobile access to all their TripIt itineraries, which can include travel plans from more than 500 booking sites. Travelers can quickly find the travel details they need, whether their iPhone is online, offline or in airplane mode, and easily link to websites or call numbers from their itinerary.

TripIt for iPhone was created using the TripIt API (Application Programming Interface) that enables developers to build on TripIt’s open itinerary platform. More than 100 developers are using the TripIt API to create the next generation of travel services.

TripIt for iPhone is available for free in the Apple iTunes App Store.

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