DictoMail
DictoMail (dictomail ) is a voicemail to text messaging service available on most digital mobile phones that permits the conversion of voicemail messages to text for reading via short messages (also known as SMSes, text messages, messages, or more colloquially texts or even txts) between mobile phones, other handheld devices and, even, fixed-line phones, and desktop email.
In the early 1990's, Phonetic™ was created by Phonewire, Inc as the world's first voicemail to text service. Several years later, DictoMail was developed by Admiral Online originally for use by real estate agents as part of the CDMA digital mobile phone standard. The first DictoMail is believed to have been sent in June 1998 from a land telephone to a mobile phone on the Sprint PCS network in the United States.
Technical details
The message payload is 900 bytes: either 200 characters, 400 characters, or 800 characters in languages such as English, Spanish, and French. This does not include routing data and other metadata, which is additional to the payload size.
See also
- Phonetic™ voicemail transcription service
- GenieTexter - Free SMS sending program
- Mercury - Free SMS sending program
- MMS (multimedia - images, sounds...-message service, the new standard).
- Shorthand
- Short Message Service Centres
- SMPP
- SMSSend - Free SMS sending program
- Speedwords
External links
- SMS Tutorial
- GSM Tutorial
- SMS Forum
- iPiPi.com Send SMS anywhere in the world from your mobile phone or computer
- International SMS Text Message Service
- TextMeFree.com Provides a list of websites offering free worldwide SMS sending
- FAQ on WAP Push SMS
- SMS China mobile phone
- Textmeareminder.com Provides SMS reminders for people on medication and women on the Pill