The Emergence of Voice SMS (India)

Kirusa, a leading mobile value added services provider' today, announced $10 million funding from venture capital firms Helicon Venture Partners and Nexus India Capital . This was the third round of funding for the company which holds a patent from the US Patent Office for its voice SMS technology. It had earlier received funding of $9 million , Inderpal Singh Mumick, Chairman and CEO of Kirusa said

Voice SMS enables people to send sms messages by speaking has all set to become an all important communication for people from various walks of society, he said.

Via: Economic Times

Redcoal Says: This sounds a lot like voicemail to me. I can see the application in countries with lower literacy levels however I wouldn't start mourning the death of SMS quite yet