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Dealz
For: iOS, Android
Discount retailer Dealz has released an app delivering notices special offers and promotions to consumers. The app also includes a store locator with a street view option, so wherever customers are across Ireland it will guide them to the nearest Dealz store.
Get the Gist
For: iOS, Android, Blackberry
HulloMail, a provider of the award-winning voicemail mobile application for smartphones, has incorporated its Scribe voice-to-text transcription technology into its Android SmartVoicemail mobile applications.
Already available for iPhone, Get The Gist gives Android users now have the option to have a 10-second ‘snapshot' of voicemails transcribed into text format within the app, therefore giving an indication of what the voicemail is about before playing back at a more convenient time.
The voicemail transcriptions are fully automated and use proven voice-to-text transcription technology developed by Nuance.
Get The Gist is available for HulloMail's Android and iPhone subscribers for a monthly subscription of €1.59 in Ireland.
For users of HulloMail's free Android app, the monthly subscription is €2.39. This will be extended to the free HulloMail iPhone application in the next client update.
The subscriptions entitle a user to have up to 50 of their voicemails converted to text.