SpinVox offers a few cool services that I have tested out for the past 2 weeks or so and I have to say they are all pretty cool, the first I tested was their voicemail service that converts your voicemail to text and then emails it to you or sends it to your phone via a text message.

If you Alltel (US), Cincinnati Bell (US), Sasktel (Canada), Rogers Wireless (Canada), Telus (Canada), Telstra (Australia), Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile, and Skype (Global), you probably can already take advantage of the SpinVox service, which will convert your voicemail to text.

Having used a similar service in the past, I expected the service to work but miss certain words in the message especially form people with thick accents.  However with the 20 odd voicemails I have received from different people with varying accents the service hasn’t missed a word to yet, it also displays numbers instead of spelling them out, which I think is cool and if you are having the messages sent to your phone via text message, spelling out the numbers can cause multiple text messages. For example the number 1329 if spelled out thirteen twenty nine might cause one text message to become multiple text, but just put 1329 will keep the size of the text message small.

The service is great especially if you want to check your voicemails at work but aren’t allowed to use your cell phone, if you have access to the internet, the voicemail can be sent to your email and you can read it, and find out if the call was important or not.

But SpinVox does offer a free service called VoxLinks, which will allow you to speak a text message. Meaning you call a number (980) 939-8785 or if you are in the UK 0161 369 5672 and follow the prompts. You then record a message and it’s sent to someone as a text. This is way faster than typing out the text and I’ve used it quite a bit since I discovered it.

Another cool free service is SpinVox Social Networks, it says it’s just a trial but I do not know when it expires. The service is a partnership between SpinVox and Ping.FM and it allows you to update your twitter status, facebook status and other social networks over the phone.

Something that goes hand in hand with the SpinVox Social Networks service is their SpinVox blog which lets you blog directly to your LiveJournal, Windiws Live Spacies, Moblog.co.uk, Typepad, Vox and Blogger over the phone. Pretty damned COOL if you ask me.

Then there is SpinVox Memo, which I signed my mom up for a trial is very forgetful, she pretty much is able to call a number and record a message. She then gets a txt message reminder. It’s been a life saver for her.

Then there is blast which pretty much works like SpinVox VoxLinks, but with the SpinVox Blast service you can send the message to multiple users quickly and easily with just one call.

All of their services are easy to use and fun, the only bothersome thing about the service is the voice of the automated system, she kind of sounds as if she is having a hard time breathing or if she was holding her breath during the recording. Sounds odd, I mean I love her British accent it just sounds odd.

If your wireless provider offers any of their services definitely they are worth signing up for, and if not try out the trials on their site http://www.spinvox.com