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This is a reader's comment on NowPos. I am posting it here, since it adds another perspective to the issue. Thanks Chandan for the comment.

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.

By Chandan