Jott—a Free Voicemail to Transcribed Text Memo Service
April 28th, 2007 | Posted in blog 6 Comments »
I just discovered Jott today. Jott transcribes voicemail you leave on its service as text, and then sends that text to you via e-mail. So if you’re driving along and you have a memo to note, instead of writing it down, you just call a special Jott toll-free number, speak your memo, and Jott transcribes it as text and e-mails it to you.
You can also “jot” voicemail transcribed memos to others you’ve added to your Jott contact list. It’s a cool service, but when I cranked up a podcast and tried to record an excerpt of it as a memo, Jott couldn’t understand the speech. Darn. But if you speak into the phone clearly, it transcribes it rather well. For example, here’s a jot I made tonight:
Hi Shannon its Tom, please save me a couple of cookies I will be back in about half an hour and I might get a movie or not, I am sending you this voice mail, which will be converted to text in your inbox, arriving in about five or ten minutes. Bye, love you. [...]. Bye, bye.
If you don’t mind a few comma splices in the transcription, it’s a great resource. Also, Jott is in beta right now, so everything is free.
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Hmmm. Free if you live in the US or Canada – not available to the other 5.8 billion people in the world.
Ooops, sorry about that Rhonda. I forgot to mention the areas it’s free. You’re in Australia, right?
Yep.
[start rant]
And one thing that constantly annoys me is the number of companies – large and small – that promote their services (free or otherwise) assuming that all their web users are from where they are from. Even when they get in usability experts, and user experience people they still fail to consider that their users may come from anywhere in the world. At least Jott, to its credit, made it known on their home page that the services was only available to US and Canadian subscribers.
A few years back, I had the unfortunate experience of dealing with one of the US telcos. I had purchased one of their phones in the US using my VISA card, then when I tried to activate it and buy credits, they would not accept my VISA card as it “was foreign” and therefore I had to find a physical store and pay for credits there… with that same VISA card! (read my May 3 entry about this here: http://travelog.wordpress.com/2004/05/31/april-may-2004-conferences/).
So many websites hide the information that their products or services are not available in other countries – even Amazon’s “free shipping” doesn’t tell you upfront that the free shipping is for the US (Canada?) only. You have to dig a little deeper to find that out…
[/finish rant]
Tom… you may want to check out an experiment we’re running on jott blogging at http://res.realestateshows.com/jott
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This sounds like a wonderful service. I might use this in the future. Right now i’m using a simple and easy to use voice mail service. Try to search for 101voicemail