Ipadio Releases First Audio Blogging and Mobile Broadcasting App for Android

31st August 2009

For the first time, Android users can choose to live stream audio to their own web site or pre-record up to 60 minutes of audio and upload it later. Callers also have the option to use SpinVox voice to text conversion to produce title, tags and a transcript, plus all of the things you’d expect including adding 4 photos from the phone, geolocating the call and automatically integrating with social media (Twitter, Facebook) and popular blogging platforms. Listeners can subscribe to each “channel” as a podcast in iTunes, within an ipadio account, via RSS or even old fashioned email.

Dr Mark K Smith, CEO of ipadio, says, “From the time we launched, ipadio has worked with all telephones – land lines, satellite phones, VoIP and mobiles. But by developing specific apps for the iPhone and now for Android phones means that we can offer additional functionality from the phone in addition to via an online account. Android flavoured bloggers can now create a complete blog entry direct from the phone – up to 60 minutes of audio, 4 photos, title, description, tags and geolocation. And if you don’t have time to add a summary, you can leave it all to Spinvox.”

On uploading a call, users have the option to leave their title, tags and description to SpinVox, or to type these manually. But as with the iPhone app, in practice most people are running a quick test and then leaving things to SpinVox, as the results are great. If the odd word is missed, it’s easy to edit the text either in the Android app or through an account on ipadio.com.

Ipadio’s phlogs (that’s phone blogs) appear on ipadio.com immediately, and are indexed in just a few hours. The SpinVox conversion makes the phlogs all the more discoverable. With the new app, users can call ipadio whilst on the road and appear in the search results before arriving home.

Since its first live use during a yacht race from the mid-Atlantic in November 2008, ipadio has pioneered the live audio-to-web market. Its ease-of-use and responsiveness to users has found favour with organisations and individuals as diverse as government, media companies, sports championships, travel companies, tourist boards, charity campaigners and fundraisers, bloggers and comedians.

ENDS

Notes to editors

1. At the time of writing, several phlogs are appearing within Google’s search results within 5 hours.
2. Recent phloggers of interest:
   a. Climate Camp - http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/AmeliaGregory/2009/08/30/Singing-At-Climate-Camp
   b. Interview from FLOSS, Kosovo - http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/DavidBailey11/2009/08/30/The-Brian-King-Interview-FLOSS-Kosovo-2009
3. Ipadio’s Android app is available from the Market on Android phones. This can be found by either searching the market for ipadio, or browsing to www.ipadio.com/download on an Android phone.
4. Ipadio will extend SpinVox to its LIVE! Service, available on all phones everywhere, following additional testing.
5. Ipadio is available to journalists and bloggers free of charge. Already, it has been used to stream press calls, remote interview personalities and live broadcast from a campaigning ship as it was being impounded and all other communications were down.

About ipadio’s developer

Ipadio (www.ipadio.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of digital communication company Nemisys, and has a patent pending: GB0820862.1. Creative digital experts Nemisys (www.nemisys.uk.com) develop effective web sites and online applications. Nemisys has a strong record of delivery in numerous sectors, notably with charities, education, government and sports organisations. Formed in 2001, with a turnover of £2 million per annum, it has 24 staff, all of whom are automatically CRB checked. Several of ipadio’s directors were previously involved in the successful flotation of an online conference provider on the London Stock Exchange. Their commercial and development expertise has been harnessed in the development of ipadio.

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John Duffy, ipadio

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