Not long ago, I posted some information about a pretty cool new service, CallWave Vtxt.  CallWave Vtxt takes the voicemails you receive on any cellphone, with any service, and transcribes it into an text message which can be sent to your phone.  This is great for receiving your messages in noisy areas, or at times when you cannot call your voicemail.  Today, I received word from CallWave that their subscription numbers have skyrocketed and are continuing to rise.  Read on for more from the press release:

CallWave, Inc. today reached a new milestone with its recently launched Vtxt^SM service, hitting one million voicemail-to-text transcriptions in just two months.

This marks consumers? quick and positive response to CallWave?s unique Vtxt ?GIST? offering ? the first and only summarized voice-to-text transcription service for mobile phone voicemail. CallWave makes it easy for users to sign up at callwave.com using their existing handset, phone number, and service provider ? and at no cost to them during the Beta period.

Leveraging proprietary speech recognition technology, GIST identifies and pulls key words and phrases, creating a summarized transcription that delivers the “gist” of a voicemail in one text message, making it easy to identify if a message is urgent or not.  Users can then quickly scan, prioritize and read voicemail ? without scrolling several texts containing word-for-word transcriptions.  There are no human operators involved, so messages remain completely secure and private.

The CallWave GIST design is based upon the way busy prosumers and email centric internet users manage their voicemail and mobile email.  Often times, they reply to a missed message without ever, or only partially, listening to the voicemail.  And like mobile email, they want to be able to fully review, search and find complete messages on their desktop if they skipped something on the handheld.

For mobile users who require a more complete translation of a voicemail, the CallWave service gives users a full transcription and audio file of voicemail in their email along with the ability to manage voicemail and Vtxt messages via a first-of-its-kind web portal, CallWave Phone Page.  This personalized portal has unlimited storage and allows users to read, listen to, save, search and reply to messages, via text or callback, right from the PC.

CallWave also celebrates a second milestone ? as the company announced it has surpassed one million widget downloads since late December 2006.  Consumers are using the free CallWave widgets to send text messages and manage mobile phone voicemail ? all from the convenience of their desktop.