LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Six Languages on Five Continents and New Hires in Europe and Latin 
America Confirm SpinVox Global Ambition.

SpinVox, the founder and global leader in Voice-to-Content messaging, has
announced the launch today of Portuguese and Italian as the fifth and sixth
languages in its multi-lingual service offering, as it targets the expanding
Brazilian, Portuguese and Italian telecoms markets.

SpinVox is now the world's largest private speech technology company and
conceived, designed and built the world's first Voice-to-Text messaging
service which is already available in Spanish, English, French and German via
13 carriers - such as Alltel (Verizon), Movistar Chile, Vodafone Spain,
Telstra and Vodacom - on five continents.

SpinVox enables people to receive their voice messages converted to text
as an SMS on their mobile phone and/or as an email on their PC screen or PDA.
Converted voicemails can now be read quickly - it is seven times faster to
read a voicemail as text, than it is to dial-in and listen to one - and as
digital content they can be sorted, saved, prioritised and responded to as an
SMS, email or by voice.

"Adding Portuguese to our language line-up gives us access to a
marketplace of 240 million potential new customers, whilst Italian could help
SpinVox access the 90 million mobile telephone lines in that marketplace,"
says Christina Domecq, CEO and co-founder, SpinVox. "More importantly, it
increases the number of carriers who can benefit from the revenue uplift that
adding SpinVox brings to a network. We've seen call completion increase as
much as 30 per cent, as the calling party is confident that their message
will be seen in minutes, rather than listened to hours later, and call
continuity increase by another 60 per cent."

Now anyone in Brazil can experience the Portuguese SpinVox service for
themselves, by phoning one of two demo numbers +55-11-4063 9945 (São Paulo)
or +55-21-4063-9945 (Rio de Janeiro) from their mobile phone, speaking a
message and having the content delivered back to them as an SMS.*

Italians keen to try the service for themselves can call
+39-066-220-7193.

New Leading Hires for Italy and Latin America

To drive the the success of the new languages in-country - SpinVox has
hired Fabrizio Minei as General Manager, Italy & Director Business
Development EMEA and Oscar Rodriguez, General Manager, Latin America.

"Our ability to hire such expert talent to the international SpinVox team
shows the momentum we're gaining as we launch with carriers around the
world," adds Domecq. "Now, interest from countries asking us to develop
SpinVox in new languages is driving us to invest in Portuguese and Italian in
the first half of 2009, with more languages on the roadmap," continues
Domecq.

Fabrizio Minei

Minei brings telecoms expertise in the Italian marketplace from his six
years at Telecom Italia where he rose to Regional Director Europe, based in
London and his role as managing partner of telecoms consulting firm IMONT in
Rome, where he advised companies such as Vodafone/Omnitel, TIM, and Telecom
Italia.

Minei joined IMONT from Global Metro Networks in Milan where he was
responsible for starting-up its Italian operations and deploying a
metropolitan area network (MAN) in Milan for the sale and lease of dark
fibre.

Minei also brings to SpinVox extensive contacts and experience from
across Europe, from a variety of international roles including Managing
Director Italy and Vice President EMEA, of Primus Telecommunications where he
was responsible for its start-up operations as well as its successful
business development in the region.

His most recent role was General Manager, Italy and Regional Director,
SEMEA for Visto Corporation, the US-based world leader in push email
technology.

Minei started his career at Olivetti, with stints in Moscow and Istanbul
for the company and is a graduate of the University of San Diego, USA with an
MBA in International Business and of the Università degli Studi di Roma "La
Sapienza", Rome where he studied business and economics.

Oscar Rodriguez

Rodriguez served as CEO of Avantel, a leading provider of
telecommunications products and services to business, government and
residential customers in Mexico, for six years. There he presided over a
structural transformation of the company, to a fully integrated
tecommunications service provider. He also served as Technology Advisor of
Grupo Empresarial Angeles, a privately owned services and broadcasting
company with over US$2billion in assets.

Rodriguez brings more than 20 years experience at IBM, where he held a
number of positions including corporate VP sales and operations; and VP for
Latin American Distribution and Business Partner Sales when he doubled
business through distribution channels and reduced distribution expenses by
40 percent.

Rodriguez was educated in Mexico at Universidad Anahuac and Universidad
de las Americas and in the USA at California State Polytechnic University.

SpinVox Service Portfolio

As well as negotiating deals with carriers, the SpinVox team also expects
to introduce the service to a wider marketplace of enterprise and media
partners who can make use of the full range of SpinVox services - from
SpinVox Enterprise Voicemail, SpinVox Callmail for call centres or even
SpinVox Blog and SpinVox Social Networks - which allows people to update
their blogs or social networks just by using their voice.

*International call charge will apply if number called from Portugal.

About SpinVox

SpinVox is the world's largest commercial speech platform and is
implemented as a carrier-class cloud service which is used daily by tens of
millions of people for automatic delivery of converted speech to SMS text,
email and web environments.

By pioneering significant innovations in speech recognition and mass
market services available through any network worldwide, SpinVox(R) has
created the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content(TM) in order
to deliver new value from everyday user behaviour.

SpinVox services are available directly on http://www.spinvox.com,
through leading carriers and through new media, Unified Communications and
other service providers globally.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion
System(TM) (VMCS) - protected by over 60 patents worldwide - which works by
combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language
process. Developed by the Cambridge, UK-based SpinVox Advanced Speech Group;
VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish,
German, Portuguese and Italian.

SpinVox is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers
Wireless, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar
Chile, Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.

Free trials of the SpinVox Memo, Blast and Blog services are available
through the website, http://www.spinvox.com. To find out about free VIP
SpinVox voicemail trials please contact the SpinVox press office on
spinvox@porternovelli.co.uk.