Jott August 21, 2007
Posted by Brian in tools.trackback
A service called Jott lets you call a number, say something you’d “jot” down, and they send it to you in an email. The speech-to-text worked very well when I said “Hello, World”. It didn’t understand “floccinaucinihilipilification” or “antidisestablishmentarianism”, but it sort of, kind of translated “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”. I’ll try with more coherent words and sentences, but I just think this is a cool app. Any takers?
From what I recall, Jott actually employs real people to listen to the recorded messages and transcribe them. Outsourced to India, perhaps. That’s why you the complex words were not recognized.
That’s only a 1/4 accurate. Jott DOES have transcribers in India AND in the US. They also are using voice recognition software which the jotts pass before they get to the humans.