ATLANTA, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- SpinVox, the leader in voice-to-text technology, has used its expertise in mobile phone and voicemail etiquette to name America's top ten most annoying voicemails.

"In the US we spend almost 100 billion minutes each year leaving or listening to voicemail so most people will have received one or more of these types of messages. At best they are annoying and at worst couterproductive, using up the valuable time that people increasingly don't have to spare in their busy lives," says Christina Domecq, SpinVox co-founder and CEO.
According to SpinVox, the following are the worst offenders -- voicemails that people should avoid leaving at all costs.

 Top Ten Annoying Voicemails:

1. The Marathon Message: The extremely long voicemail that never ends.
2. The Death March: Leaving a phone number at the end of a long  voicemail.  If you missed it, you now have to listen through the entire message just to get the phone number.
3. The Screaming Eagle: The voicemail left in a noisy bar or as a fire truck is passing by.
4. The Drunken Dispatch: The drunk dial voicemail.
5. Voicemail Interrupted: As the person is leaving the voicemail, they stop in the middle to have a conversation with someone else or answer another call before they return to finish the message
6. The Misguided Message: A person or telemarketer leaves a message for you that was actually intended for someone else.
7. Voicemail Incognito: The anonymous voicemail.
8. The Dehydrated Dispatch: Any voicemail left by someone with a bad hangover.
9. One Way Wonder: When the person thinks they are speaking to you when they are actually talking to your voicemail.
10. The Pocket Dialer: The person that accidentally calls you because the phone is in their pocket or bag and isn't locked, leading to an endless soundtrack of them walking down the street, driving or having a conversation with someone else.

"We created this list to spark a discussion about something that is very irritating and that most Americans have to endure day-in, day-out," adds Domecq. "The good news is that the introduction of SpinVox voice to text services converts your voicemail messages to text and sends it you as an SMS or email message. This means you don't have to go through the hassle of dialing up your voicemail and listening to something that's not useful. You simply read the message, and in one click retain it for future reference or delete it."

For more information about SpinVox visit www.spinvox.com.

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About SpinVox:
SpinVox(R) brought together the two most popular methods of communication -- voice and text -- and created a new category of messaging called Voice-to-Screen(TM). Its award-winning service is now making everyday communication simpler and more powerful, creating new recurring revenues for wireless, landline, cable and VOIP carriers as well as service providers and web partners. SpinVox has already launched its service with Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa and Six Apart and announced deals with Alltel, Rogers, Vodafone Spain and Skype. As a managed service provider any network or service can rapidly and cost-effectively implement SpinVox.

At the heart of SpinVox is its Voice Message Conversion System(TM) (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS is being rolled-out across four continents in four languages -- English, French, Spanish and German