Stephen Wu has joined its leadership team. In his new position as Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Wu will be responsible for leading sales and partnership efforts with carriers and service providers, and driving the company's international expansion into global markets.

A former Microsoft executive and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, Mr. Wu has over two decades of strategic, executive, international and operational experience in high technology management, private equity and business management. Building on the existing momentum of GotVoice, Mr. Wu will work to partner GotVoice with carriers and IP communication providers to incorporate the GotVoice G2 solution into companies' existing platforms.

GotVoice G2 is a voicemail-to-text transcription engine and utilizes advanced free-form speech recognition technologies when transcribing voicemail. Its patented communications platform is the first-of-its-kind to unify mobile, home, PBX, VoIP and IP-based PBX voice messages, allowing users to read their voicemail or listen to them as digital audio using email, a mobile phone, or via the Web. This enables GotVoice partners to offer end-users a single solution for checking all of their voicemail -- and provides them with voicemail transcription that is faster, better quality and is offered at a lower price point than is available anywhere else in the world.

"I have the advantage of coming on board at time when globally, carriers and service providers are seeking differentiation through services like GotVoice," said Stephen Wu, Vice President of Sales and Business Development. "Our carrier-grade solution is unparalleled in that it has been trained against millions of individual speakers from carriers throughout our markets and boasts unmatched accuracy and speed. We are helping to drive revenues for our partners by differentiating their offerings at a price point that stimulates usage."

Prior to joining GotVoice, Mr. Wu was Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing at NextWave Wireless, Inc. where he was responsible for the company's strategic relationships. Before this, he was a Founding and General Partner of The Carlyle Group's Asian Technology Funds. He also spent over a decade at Microsoft Corporation where he held senior and general management positions in various groups including the online MSN division, where he launched the MSN portals in Asia -- as well as its Product Groups, Consulting and Sales divisions.

"GotVoice is poised for growth. We knew the right person for this job would quickly step in line to help drive thought leadership of GotVoice advantages," said Curt Blake, CEO of GotVoice. "Stephen embraces the entrepreneurial spirit of GotVoice. He understands our partners and our significant global market opportunity, and will serve our business model well."

The GotVoice G2 Platform is capable of supporting millions of users with its carrier-grade, high quality transcription engine built for scalability and capable of interoperating with all major voice and VoIP carriers. Its patented unified communications functionality allows seamless access to existing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and/or voicemail systems, as well as voicemail-to-text conversion -- without infrastructure upgrades or capital outlays. With GotVoice, carriers have an economical and effortless method for delivering their subscribers' voicemail as both text and digital audio files via email, SMS, Web and API, creating additional revenue streams and increased data traffic. The GotVoice solution is available today to carriers and IP communications providers via OEM, APIs, White Label and Hosted Solutions.

About GotVoice, Inc.

A pioneer in the integration of voice messaging services, GotVoice (www.gotvoice.com) enables the convergence of everyday voice into the digital world. Its patented communications platform empowers consumers and businesses to receive, consume and unify voice communications utilizing email clients, through their mobile phone interface or via the GotVoice Website. With popular features such as Voicemail-to-Text, Visual Voicemail, the ability to share voice messages as digital audio files and the unification of wireless, landline, PBX and VoIP voicemail, GotVoice makes seamless communication possible, anywhere. Founded in 2003 by industry veterans with backgrounds from RealNetworks, Microsoft, Starwave, AT&T and Corbis, GotVoice works with all major mobile, business and residential carriers.

Information Source:    Marketwire