SpinVox offers top 5 tips for coming out or simply expressing gay pride online

Posted on October 7, 2008
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ATLANTA, GA – October 11 is National Coming Out Day. This year people won’t just be taking their gay pride to the streets — they will be taking it to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and countless other social networks. And for a growing number of them, it will mean using SpinVox voice-to-content to broadcast their pride online and out loud.

With SpinVox, you can speak your blog posts and social network updates by simply dialing a number on your mobile phone and leaving a message. For users with several blogs and networks, a new ‘Ping through SpinVox’ service is available that simultaneously broadcasts spoken posts and updates to thirty of the most popular social networking sites. You can also ‘come out’ in grand electronic fashion by using SpinVox to blast spoken messages via email and SMS to as many friends and family members as you like.

SpinVox also offers the following five ways to express gay pride via social networking:

 1. Add gay pride “Flair” to your Facebook page. A new SpinVox button is available through the Pieces of Flair application by searching for “SpinVox Coming Out.” 2. Add Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” to your MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, imeem, Hi5, iLike, and other social network pages. 3. Start or join a gay pride network online. Many niche gay and lesbian audiences still need forums to call their own! 4. Become a fan of Liz Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Madonna, Bette Midler and Cher on your Facebook page. 5. Declare your support by promoting gay friendly sites to your blogroll.

“With SpinVox you can update your entire social network in your own voice while you’re celebrating National Coming Out Day,” said Christina Domecq, SpinVox co-founder and CEO. “Our mission is to help everyone speak freely and we support those who want to share how they feel ‘in the moment’ with their friends and family.”

SpinVox is free to anyone wishing to use the service to update their blog or social network. Visit http://www.spinvox.com/ for more. You can also Ping through SpinVox by signing up at http://ping.fm/.

About SpinVox

SpinVox(R) is the world’s largest privately-held speech technology company, providing the most successful voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people. SpinVox services are available directly on http://www.spinvox.com/ and through leading carriers and service providers globally.

Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies, SpinVox has brought together the two most natural forms of communication — voice and text — to create the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content(TM).

Its award-winning service is not only upgrading voicemail — by converting voicemail to text for delivery as SMS or email messages — but is also empowering people to speak SMS messages or emails to anyone, from any phone. SpinVox also enables people to speak messages directly to their favourite web messaging services such as Facebook, Twitter and many other popular web networks.

As a carrier-class hosted service provider, any network, anywhere in the world can rapidly implement SpinVox and it is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile and Livejournal and has announced a deal with Skype.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish and German — with additional languages, Portuguese and Italian, under development.