Ipadio’s iPhone App Makes Mobile Broadcasting and Audio Blogging a Breeze
Written by Ipadio
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Plus SpinVox voice to text conversion as standard on iPhone calls
[19 August – London, UK]- Ipadio’s new iPhone app, in the App Store now,
gives users the choice between recording high quality audio for publication
later or streaming their calls live to the web – on www.ipadio.com or straight to their own web
site.
For the first time, iPhone users can choose to live
stream audio to their own web site or pre-record up to 60 minutes of audio and
upload it later. Callers also have the option to use SpinVox voice to text
conversion to produce title, tags and a transcript, plus all of the things you’d
expect including adding photos from the phone, geolocating the call and
automatically integrating with social media (Twitter, Facebook) and popular
blogging platforms. Listeners can subscribe to each “channel” as a podcast in
iTunes, within an ipadio account, via RSS or even old fashioned email. IPod
Touch users can of course record and publish via ipadio.
Dr Mark K Smith, CEO of ipadio, says, “From the day we
launched, ipadio’s iPhone users let us know in no uncertain terms that audio
quality is paramount to them, and so here we are – up to 60 minutes call time at
high quality. But we’ve decided not to stop there, and we hope that optional
SpinVox conversion plus all of the rich functionality that can be managed from
the web account will make ipadio a valuable addition to the serious blogger’s
toolset. In fact, several bloggers and journalists are setting their ipadio
accounts to “private” and then embedding them to their own sites along with a
more detailed article, so they never appear on ipadio.com at all. That’s fine with us, and gives
ipadians ultimate control over their audio content. Along with moderation it’s
just the functionality that many journalists are looking for.”
On uploading a call, users have the option to leave
their title, tags and description to SpinVox, or to type these manually. In
practice, most callers are running a quick test and then leaving things to
SpinVox, as the results are great. If the odd word is missed, it’s easy to edit
the text either in the iPhone app or through an account on ipadio.com.
As well as signposting the content, the SpinVox
conversion will make the phlogs (phone blogs) easy for search engines to find.
With the new app, users can call ipadio whilst on the road and appear in the
search results before arriving home.
Ipadio’s commercial service introduces workflow process
(moderation, group access and distribution, database integration of calls),
additional in-call functionality (in-call polling, “call push”) to meet each
company’s exact requirement. Ipadio has already announced its partnership with
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to collect audio assessments.
Since its first live use during a yacht race from the
mid-Atlantic in November 2008, ipadio has pioneered the live audio-to-web
market. Its ease-of-use and responsiveness to users has found
favour with organisations and individuals as diverse as government, media
companies, sports championships, travel companies, tourist boards, charity
campaigners and fundraisers, bloggers and comedians.
About ipadio’s
developer
Ipadio (www.ipadio.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of
digital communication company Nemisys, and has a patent pending: GB0820862.1.
Creative digital experts Nemisys (www.nemisys.uk.com) develop effective web sites and
online applications. Nemisys has a strong record of delivery in numerous
sectors, notably with charities, education, government and sports organisations.
Formed in 2001, with a turnover of £2 million per annum, it has 24 staff, all of
whom are automatically CRB checked. Several of ipadio’s directors were
previously involved in the successful flotation of an online conference provider
on the London Stock Exchange. Their commercial and development expertise has
been harnessed in the development of ipadio.
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