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DictoMail (dictomail ) is a voicemail to text messaging service available on most digital mobile phones that permits the conversion of voicemail messages to text for reading via short messages (also known as SMSes, text messages, messages, or more colloquially texts or even txts) between mobile phones, other handheld devices and, even, fixed-line phones, and desktop email.


In the early 1990's, Phonetic™ was created by Phonewire, Inc as the world's first voicemail to text service. Several years later, DictoMail was developed by Admiral Online originally for use by real estate agents as part of the CDMA digital mobile phone standard. The first DictoMail is believed to have been sent in June 1998 from a land telephone to a mobile phone on the Sprint PCS network in the United States. Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS... voicemail to text messaging was originally created by Phonewire, Inc in the early 1990s, initially called e-Page and later renamed to Phonetic(TM) voicemail transcription; in the late 1990s, a competitor appeared under the service name DictoMail, developed by Admiral Online. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


Technical details

The message payload is 900 bytes: either 200 characters, 400 characters, or 800 characters in languages such as English, Spanish, and French. This does not include routing data and other metadata, which is additional to the payload size. This article refers to the unit of binary information. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Metadata is data about data. ...


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Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS... GenieTexter is a small free GUI software application for sending SMS messages from an internet connected computer. ... Mercury is a free GUI software application for sending SMS messages from an Internet connected computer. ... Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) is the logical evolution of the Short Message Service SMS, a text-only messaging system for mobile networks. ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... Shorthand is a general term referring to any abbreviated or symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a standard method of writing the language. ... A short message service centre (SMSC) is a network element in the mobile telephone network which delivers SMS messages Operation When a user sends a text message (SMS message) to another user, the phone actually sends the message to the SMSC. The SMSC stores the message and then delivers it... The short message peer-to-peer protocol (SMPP) is a protocol for exchanging SMS messages between SMS peer entities such as short message service centres. ... SMSSend is a software application for sending SMS messages from an internet connected computer. ... Dutton Speedwords is an international auxiliary language as well a shorthand writing system. ...

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