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Capture with Jott
Stew | Mar 20 2007
I am in no way affiliated with this service, but thought I'd post about it in case it can be of use to anyone. I recently discovered Jott, a voice-to-text web-based transcription program. I had been looking for a capture device to use in my car for some time. My cell phone has a voice recorder, which I have used with my Bluetooth headset, but I'd always forget to review my recordings. Enter Jott. I call Jott on my cell phone, leave a message at the beep, and it's magically sent to my gmail account as a text email. The emails then get processed when I'm back online. The transcription sometimes confuses a few words for others, but it's definitely not so severe as to limit the message's meaning. I've even used this to transcribe memos and letters for my assistant. Being away from my desk quite a bit, and often finding it inconvenient to reach into my pocket for my hPDA, this is a great solution for on-the-run thinking. 8 Comments
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 Seconded on all counts. ...Submitted by cebailey on April 10, 2007 - 7:09pm.
Seconded on all counts. The transcriptions aren't always exactly perfect (especially with names), but it helps if you speak slowly. But this service is awesome for 'ubiquitous capture.' Set it to a speed dial on your cell and capture is 10 seconds away. A few minutes after you call, you'll get an email with whatever you said in the subject, prepended by a [Jott] tag. It's a no-brainer to have Gmail or mail.app filter based on that. And it would only take a bit of work to get those filters automatically piping input to iCal, or even better, one of the web calendars that speaks "English" like Gcal or 30 boxes. »
Another Jotter here! I...Submitted by Paul on April 13, 2007 - 7:57am.
Another Jotter here! I hadn't thought about phrasing my Jotts so that Gcal will recognize them as appointments, that's very cool. Jott is currently in public beta, do you think they will begin to charge for it at some point, or get revenue in another fashion? »
I can see how Jott...Submitted by Stew on April 13, 2007 - 9:18am.
I can see how Jott would be very profitable. [I hope that] Maybe they will keep a free version, with limits on Jott groups and Jotts per month? »
hello jotters!Submitted by chrispancho on April 25, 2007 - 9:58pm.
It's really good to see fellow jotters NOT from washington. It shows how vast this thing can get! I wanted to share my love with this thingamajig! Jott has helped me out a ton being a musican and all. I play guitar and I often thing of riffs and lyrics when I'm not around my guitar and Jott has allowed me to store my ideas! (its kinda silly singing guitar riffs into the phone butt it works!) Other than my music, it is always neat to jott a friend obseneties from time to time haha. As for Pauls question about a charge.... I thought of the same thing. Then again, there has been talk about myspace charging now...since Tom sold to FOX for 100 million. Crazy I tell ya. »
 Another Jotter here. I...Submitted by jasonechols on April 26, 2007 - 6:41am.
Another Jotter here. I had a huge need to be able to capture thoughts and ideas when not around my computer. Jott fills the bill very well. Not the transcriptions are not always perfect, but they do include the audio file for the recording you did if you need to reference it. Great tool!!! »
I loves me some Jott!...Submitted by ScottE22 on April 26, 2007 - 11:52am.
I loves me some Jott! I even blogged about it since it seems educators are always the last ones to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon... »
It looks very pretty~~I really,really,really...Submitted by abobddy on May 24, 2007 - 10:42pm.
It looks very pretty~~I really,really,really want one . »
do it!Submitted by chrispancho on May 25, 2007 - 9:37pm.
Its free!....well for now. But even after they start charging, they will have a free version up. I think they may even spiff the free version a little! That would be awesome! »
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