I have fallen in love with a service from a website called jott.com. With jott.com I use my (cell) phone to send myself or others emails. I pick up the phone and dial a central number and leave a voice message for someone in my jott.com address book. To leave myself a message I simply say “myself”. Then an email with a message transcription and an attached audio file is sent to that email address. The voice recognition works surprisingly well. When I dictated part of Richard the 3rd as a test I got this phrase:
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York
The only word it got wrong was using “sun” for “son”. Not bad.
What I like about this service is that as someone who is middle aged who is always thinking about 10 things at a time I just have to pull out my cell phone and leave myself a message to get the idea out of my head and into my email. As a email addicted person with a cell phone, a laptop Jott.com helps tie my life together. Cool.
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May 29th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I agree. Jott.com is going to solve TONS of peoples problems! For instance, here in washington state, they just passed a law banning cell phone usage while driving, including texting. All people have to do is discover jott and their problems are solved! Now how cool is that?! I see this company going a long ways. From my understanding…Jott is going to start a business model that will cost a few bucks or so.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I started using Jott.com recently and really like the service. But I have noticed some misjotts. So I’ve started http://misjott.com and hope people will let me know where Jott messed up. Should be fun!