About SimulScribe

History

While on a business trip to Los Angeles in 2003, James Siminoff was out to dinner with friends: William Wachtel and his son, Jesse Wachtel. Before they could sit down, William had to sort through a 20 minute backlog of voicemails gathered during a day filled with meetings. Jesse commented to James, "Wouldn't it be easier if you could just read your voicemail?" At the time, James was working with voice recognition technologies and had a creative idea on how to build a system that would enable people to stop listening to voicemail and READ IT. ...and with that, SimulScribe was born.

Today

SimulScribe is currently the largest voicemail transcription provider in the United States. The company has had the great fortune of supplying many global telecommunications carriers with its back end technology for highly-accurate, real-time transcription. The company sells its service through its retail brand, Phonetag. SimulScribe has created proprietary technology and models which run on the IBM voice recognition engine.