Mobivox is one of the coolest services ti hit my radar in a long time. I haven't yet had a chance to talk with
Nitzan Shaer,  their COO. I'm still looking forward to that. He's presenting this week at eComm, but I don't know yet if I'll get to meet him at VON next week. I hope so.

Mobivox is simplifying the way users can save names in their contacts lists, making it even easier to use the Mobivox free international calling service. By speaking the contact name and saving it, users can easily add people to their address books and further simplify their dial-by-voice experience.

The new voice-driven process is especially useful for those with multi-cultural backgrounds and non-English contact names.

MOBIVOX LAUNCHES 'SAY IT AND SAVE IT' FEATURE

Advanced Voice Recognition Lets Mobivox Users Add Contacts
By Simply Speaking Their Names

MONTRÉAL-March 13, 2008--MOBIVOX, the international calling service that connects family and friends around the world for free from any phone, announced today the launch of a new feature that makes calling by voice even easier. Create a Contact enables MOBIVOX users to add contacts to their online contact book in their own voice, by simply speaking the information over any telephone.

Nitzan Shaer, COO of MOBIVOX, said, "MOBIVOX already simplifies international calling, by enabling users to dial by voice and place free calls to anywhere in the world. Today, we are excited to take this service a step further, making it even easier to add to the list of people you can call--simply by speaking their names."

Previously, afterMOBIVOX members registered for free at www.mobivox.com, they uploaded or typed in their contacts names and numbers. While they can continue to use that method, the new voice-driven process makes it easy to add new contacts, from any phone, anywhere.

MOBIVOX's advanced speech-recognition technology hears the spoken name of a contact and instantly connects the caller to contacts anywhere in the world.

According to Shaer, "This new feature will dramatically improve the speech recognition accuracy, and is especially useful for those with multi-cultural backgrounds and non-English contact names. These are precisely the people who use MOBIVOX the most to keep in touch with their home country and loved ones far away."

MOBIVOX has also built intelligence into its voice-recognition system that identifies a frequently dialed number that does not exist in the contact list. The automated attendant then prompts the caller to create a contact. This is especially helpful to users who travel extensively and don't have their address books readily accessible.

Shaer will discuss these and other methods used by his company to optimize speech recognition accuracy at the Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference 2008 in Mountain View, Calif., on Wed., March 12.

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About Mobivox
MOBIVOX is an international calling service that makes it possible to call friends and family around the world for free from any phone. Calls between members are free to more than 40 destinations. For all other calls, MOBIVOX offers extremely low rates starting at 1.9 cents per minute.