Have Someone Else Type E-mail For You

Our new mobile society means people are receiving e-mail just
about everywhere they go over devices like pagers and cellular telephones.
This leads to the logistical problem of trying to give a full response
with text using the 10-digit keypad of a telephone.

One solution may be the voice to text e-mail service announced
today by WeType4u.com, a company that launched in May with what it calls
"cyber typing service." With the company's regular document service,
registered customers phone in and dictate letters, memos, sales reports
or any other item that they want transcribed on their behalf. The finished
product is then sent via e-mail as a Microsoft Word document.

Tom Mersch, president of WeType4u.com, said that the e-mail service is an
offshoot of the company's existing service.

"The infrastructure was already there, and one day we realized that the
transcription model is a great way to help people convert voice to text,"
Mersch recalled. "If you are at a trade show and meet someone that could
be a good business contact, you can use our service to send that person
an e-mail while all the details of the conversation are fresh in your mind.
You can send e-mail to people even when you do not have Internet
access," he added.

Mersch emphasized that the transcription is done by human typists, not
machines, and that the message will be sent as a regular text e-mail, not
an attached voice file.

"Yahoo just announced that it is attaching voice files to e-mails, but
there are technical problems with that," he said. "Not everyone has the
technical capability to receive and play voice files, and file size is
also an issue. Most voice file attachments are at least three megabytes.
If someone has a Yahoo or Hotmail account that is limited to six megabytes
of storage and they receive three voice files, they will have problems."

According to Mersch, the price of the new e-mail service is $.99 for up to
100 words, then a penny a word after that. The regular document
transcription
service is $2 for the first page, than $1 for each half page thereafter.
He said that there are different service levels depending on the
turnaround speed needed.

More information on WeType4u.com can be found at
http://www.wetype4u.com.