VoxOx Debuts Translator-in-the-Cloud for Instant Messaging, E-mails, Texting, Social Media

English when they appeared on the spaceship’s big-screen TV screen.

Unlike Star Trek, however, the VoxOx Universal Translator does not translate voice calls. Translating a voice call would require transcribing speech in a way that understands slang, accents, slurred speech, and so forth, Bratt explains. “No one has really been able to do it [in] a seamless way,” Bratt says. “In the future, if it gets more viable, we may take a look at it.”

Bratt tells me the company has not spent any marketing dollars to promote its Voice-over-Internet Protocol services, relying instead on media announcements since VoxOx made its debut in 2008. The technology integrates different types of communications into a single, iPhone-like graphical user interface. Telcentris derived the name for its VoxOx business from “voice over X,” meaning its cloud-based software can send a voice call over any number of networks to a user’s computer or phone. Like Skype, VoxOx provides users a free phone number and allows free calls to other VoxOx users.

The VoxOx technology also enables users to combine a variety of their existing communications technologies onto a single platform, with a single computer screen that displays icons for their voice, video, instant messaging, text, e-mail, fax, and certain social networks, and the company continues to add compelling features. Last June, the company added a feature that makes it easier to place low-cost calls overseas. And in July, VoxOx added a virtual personal assistant—a service that can answer your phone calls, take a message, record a conversation, or route calls to your computer, cell phone, office phone, or any other destination you have listed.

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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.