Hyderabad-based NowPos Tests Innovative Voice Email Application
Fri, 01/13/2006 - 01:35 — Sahad P V
I have been invited to participate in the beta testing of an innovative voice email application from a company in Hyderabad. The company is called NowPos (short for Now Possible) and has developed a voice email (vMail) application.
What exactly is vMail? According to the company, it's a "web-based e-mail service that brings in a new paradigm in e-mailing - of using voice - recorded, encrypted, delivered and retrieved in a unique way, making the 'sound files' on NowPos the smallest in size in the Internet space."
Basically, you can send a voice mail from your NowPos id to any other email account like Yahoo! or Gmail. I am yet to test it (I haven't attached my headstet to the comp), so I can't vouch for it as of now. (It says I can refer 25 50 friends, if any of you are interested, let me know)
Apparently, NowPos has been working on this for the last one year or so. It has filed for patent protection of its technology. This is said to be having applications not only for friendly chats but also in areas like recruitment, matrimonials etc.
Ayyappa Nagubandi, Leader, NowPos Online Services, told CNBC channel a few months ago, "This can be used in job portals...matrimonials.. Most recruitment in India happens for voice BPOs. People can record their profiles online. The
recruitment cycles can be cut short. The same thing can happen in
matrimonials also..."
UPDATE I
It's an interesting innovation from India. It's incubated by TrulyIntelligent Technologies Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad, and is now its fully-owned subsidiary. But I am not very happy with the design, architecture etc...I am sure they need some help to make it world class...I am also not very sure about the need for such a service...I would prefer a service where your cell phone or fixed phone voice message could be sent as a voice message to an email. Michael Arrington talks about a company called Teleflip which allows sending a text message to a mobile phone for free. It's not a new concept but is useful.
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not able to access the company website. Can you please check and direct me to link where I check the website of NowPos
Thanks a lot to all of you, including Sahad for the entire chain of thought. I work at NowPos. I can take any queries and answer any doubts anyone might have.
I am sure you have read about the news items on us, including our voice ATM.
thanks and looking forward to hearing from you
Sriram
Hi,
Sahad, thanks for the invite.
Similar to Teleflip in North America, in India we have a lot of similar service providers like sms.ac and many more which at one point of time gave it free. [airtelno]@airtelkk.com still works for me to send sms to any airtel in india by email from any account.
Checked out NowPos. Googling 'email with voice' throws up 131 million results, and I even checked out a couple of sites on that. So, the difference must lie in technology and positioning, and maybe, in its being free. Most of the other softwares send the file along with the email by converting it to a popular audio format. NowPos, I assume, saves sound-files on its own servers, and just sends the links, which is easier to access and play at any time without increasing mail-box size.
Packaging apart, I found no problems in recording my voice and sending it across. It was quite fast at that. However, it plays ads before conveying the actual message, which might confuse the person if the product is not that popular. Also, all mails went automatically to 'spam' which I suspect was due to no text content.
Positioning it at BPO jobs might be a good idea. But I believe companies will ask for a whole assessment model rather than just voice recording. Assessment companies right now have their own software at examination centers and record standard replies to some standard questions, based on which candidates are assessed. This software will make the installation redundant. However the assessment companies are capable enough to have online recording feature integrated into their software.
Can't say about matrimonials. That would assume that the voice of a suitor becomes an important part in assessing him as a bride/groom.
What interests me most is when they say, they make "the 'sound files' on NowPos the smallest in size in the Internet space". That could have profound applications in its own sense. All these incredibly big song files that we have on our computers could be converted into their format. The whole arena of music sites like 'yahoo music', internet radio sites like BBC, CNN which depend so much on voice streaming could be revolutionized if the site really has been able to overcome the problems it says it has addressed.
I would like to know more about their technology.
Thanks,
Chandan
I would like to have a invite too. Please send a invite to neetikab@gmail.com. Thanks!
NB
Hi Chandan,
Sure, it's an open call. I will refer as soon as I get some free time today.
Cheers
PVS
That is one interesting Idea. If "any of you" does not include specific people, I will definitely be interested. Kindly send details to ck_nifft@hotmail.com if interested. It would be great to check out this product
Thanks,
Chandan
September 12, 2007
just trying to know what is now possible?