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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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Another Jotter here. I...Submitted by jasonechols on April 26, 2007 - 7:41am.
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!!! » POSTED IN:
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