Deltagram launches voice messaging service

CHENNAI: Deltagram, a network enabled service provider, has announced the launch of HALLO, a voice messaging service to transmit voice messages anywhere in the country through HALLO pay and use cards. The HALLO card which merges satellite and GSM technologies would facilitate the digital capture, compression, storage and transmission of the user’s voice anywhere in India, not only from one phone to another but to mobile phones as well.

Priced at Rs 5, the card enables the transmission of messages through a menu driven Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS). It is fully automated and gives the user an identity number. The duration of the message could be of one minute with an optional reply facility available to the user.

The service is accessible from any telephone through a local call and messages can be recorded and sent in one’s own voice in any language. Here, unlike the impersonal SMS facilities available to cell phone users, there is authenticity of the message as well as a personal touch as it is in the sender’s own voice.

HALLO also facilitates sending of greetings or messages at a pre-defined date and time and the same message could be sent to more than one person or a group of people. The IVRS is user friendly, ensuring enhanced user comfort levels and one distinctive feature is that the service would eventually be available through one unique telephone number throughout the country.

The card, which would initially be available only in Chennai, would be launched throughout the country within the next six months. The company expects to sell five lakh HALLO cards per month in Chennai.