Text message your voice with Pinger

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Text message your voice with Pinger

by Chris Gilmer Oct 30th 2007

Text messages are normally easy to send, but what about when you're driving or occupied and want to get something complex across? Pinger is a service that lets users call into a service and leave a voicemail to a contact, that will in turn send a text message instead of a ring. Recipients then press a button and listen to your voice message and can reply or forward the message. It's a quick alternative service that makes voice messages easy without actually ringing up and interrupting a person. Recipients are presented with a message that shows who the message is from, how long it is, and when it was sent before they listen.

The Pinger service is free to use, but is only currently open to US residents. Instead of calling a number, Pinger has a special application for Blackberry and Treo that speeds up the process and allows for a visual preview of messages, list of last 10 Pinger messages and sharing between other Blackberry or Treo users.

Tags: email, message, pinger, sms, text, txt, voice

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michell said 3:42PM on 10-30-2007

Check out SpinVox they convert the VM to text

S.K. said 8:35PM on 11-01-2007

Can't you already send people voice messages? I get text, audio and video messages from people all the time. No middle man.

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