I just came across a site that offers a fascinating free service. You may have heard of it because the company just celebrated its second birthday. It’s jott.com. Jott is a service that transcribes voice messages into text messages, reminders, lists, appointments and even blog posts.
James Martin from PC World wrote an article in the Washington Post about Jott stating “it is a fantastic productivity tool that every busy mobile professional should try.” In the world of public relations anything that saves time is worth investigating.
Although I haven’t signed up yet, I’m definitely going to check it out because this can be a very powerful and time saving tool. According to the site you can register any email account, cell phone provider and online calendar service such as Google Calendar. Jott has also partnered with other online services such as, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Twitter, Yahoo Groups, Jaiku and even Amazon.
How incredible is that! As long as you have your cell phone in hand you can be connected with any number of services from email, work calendars and schedules, to even creating a blog post.
Once you call in, you’re asked, “Who do you want to Jott?” You simply state the service, such as Google Calendar, then speak up to 30 seconds worth of changes, appointments or updates to your calendar. Jott then takes the message and within minutes it updates your calendar.
Another interesting fact that I read in Martin’s article was Jott had flawlessly transcribed Martin’s voice message, posted it to his Twitter page and even had the commas in the proper places.
In addition, Jott allows users to import contacts from email clients such as Microsoft’s Outlook. So whether you are driving or away from the computer, as long as you have your cell phone you can email anyone of your contacts.
I imagine many PR folks will put Jott to use in the future.
I think that the Jott Company really jumped in to something great here. The fact that you can cut out the middle man of a computer and send vioce activated emails, texts, etc. over the phone will revolutionize how people communicate. It will be especially influencial in the communications fields such as PR to cut down on time and increase the effectivness of time management. The fact that it also writes the reminders, emails, etc. well and with commas and good grammer is another plus- no more spell check! Overall I think this blog was very informational and well written. I can’t wait to see what new forms of communication will come out next!
Leah Morgan
By: leahmorgan on April 23, 2008
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Wow! Jott sounds great!
Any ides of whether it works with the online calendar app Famundo (www.famundo.com)? That’s what my family uses.
Angie
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