PowerNet and SpinVox Team-Up to Provide VoIP to Vote

PowerNet, a provider of integrated voice, data, and internet services, has partnered with SpinVox, a provider of voice-to-screen messaging, to allow voice messages to be converted to text during multi-state primary, dubbed super duper Tuesday states.

The special coverage will be hosted by WNYC Radio, an American public radio station in New York, to enable greater listener interactivity during the station’s ongoing coverage of the multi-state primary.

WNYC Radio will use SpinVox to communicate directly with voters in the super duper Tuesday states. Voters will be encouraged to contribute thoughts, comments and observations by speaking messages to a special phone number set up for them by PowerNet Global. Those messages will be converted into text by SpinVox and will dynamically become a part of the coverage in real time as presenters John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji report on voter sentiments and read select text on-air.

Mike Shaw, principal strategist of PowerNet, said: “Our VoIP network combined with our managed services experience essentially provides a bridge between the public switched telephone network and SpinVox’s voice-to-text service. The 800 number provides a free way for customers to speak their political viewpoints and have them read on WNYC radio.”