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Jott
By Pat | March 2, 2008
Well, I didn’t see much usefulness of Jott when I first heard about it. But, after several people started Jotting in their Twitters, I decided yesterday to check it out.
Jott is basically a service that translates your voice to text. So you can call in on its toll-free number, speak for thirty seconds, and Jott will then email you the text, or email it to your friends, or send it to any number of applications, including Twitter. I can see that it would be a great way to record a “note to self” when you’re on the go, and don’t have something with you to write a thought down (who writes things down these days anyway?). And if you have hands-free mobile set up in your car as I do, you can easily even send yourself, a friend or coworker an important message while you’re traveling.
So it seemed like Jott would be quite useful after all. However, when I tried several times to import my Mac address book via vCard export and then importing the list through Jott’s import wizard, all it imported were the names, not phone numbers or email, which is necessary in order to make it at all useful. Since I’m on Plaxo, I tried that, but it only imported 15 out of my nearly 200 contacts. So that functionality has a long way to go before it can ever be, well, functional.
I did to a couple of test Jotts, two to myself, and one to Twitter. They all behaved really well. There was just one wrong word in my Twitter, but I don’t think I was speaking very clearly, which the application reminds you over and over should be done. I’d have to say the speech to text functionality seems pretty good at first glance.
Overall, I think it has real promise as an application. I do think people need a good way to take a quick note or tell a bunch of people something on the go. But there still needs to be some work on the import interface because who wants to enter their address book all over again?
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