Replacement for Jott service
 

I have been very happily using the paid Jott service for several years. This is a voice to text transcription service with a lot of really nice features. I called today to use it and got an email that they are shutting down in a month. Apart from the being really annoyed aspect, I need a replacement.

I use it for the following:

1) I call the Jott number (it recognizes my number) and have it send an email to my task list with a new task. The item shows up automatically on the task list (I use Toodledo).

2) I call and tell it to set a reminder for myself and it sends me a text message with the message at the time I tell it

3) I call and tell it who I want to send a message to, including text messages and it transcribes the message and sends an SMS.

4) I think of something and want to send myself an email note. This is the easiest to replace I'm sure.

Any ideas for replacement services? Jott recommended Dragon dictation (Nuance owns both) but that really isnt even close to a replacement since it isnt hands free and requires multiple steps whereas Jott is totally hands free and one step. I pay for Jott now and am fine with a replacement for about the same cost or even more. I have really grown to depend on Jott as a capture and remember tool and this is really a pain to have to deal with. Thanks for any suggestions.

For nos. 1 and 4, you could try these:

http://www.staples.com/Post-it-3-x-3...product_490610

Quite useful when traveling in particular. But why would anyone think about issues when traveling in a frequent flyer forum I suppose.

What is your cell phone technology? You can do almost all of that using your voice on an Android smartphone without a 3rd party service.

I used (and liked) Jott back when it was free and I can totally understand getting hooked on the service. It used to remind me of Wildfire which I always admired. And their corny MP3 demo, which ain't as admirable. Agreed that Dragon is not the right direction, and that Jott has some amazing productivity features you're not likely to duplicate. I was thinking about a few oddball alternatives, but none of these are nearly as slick and are mostly for requirement #4 (the easy one.) Listed from best to worst:

• Remember The Milk is a nice way to post notes to yourself. You can subscribe to your notes via an RSS feed, there are iPhone/android clients, a web site, and here's a hack integrating with other services that could also meet your needs.
• Android I have a pal who uses voice to text on his Droid for a lot of stuff. The transcription isn't all that great, especially when compared to humans. But I think you could do many of the items you've listed with spoken "verbs" (e.g. "Navigate" "Call" etc.) followed by spoken text.
• Google Voice turns voice messages into text automatically, and then you're sent an email transcript. You could map your Google voice number to your office phone, and then not pick it up.
• Ooma provides a subscription "voice mail to text" service with actual humans that listen and transcribe the call. So you could call home (but that might wake up your family) and leave a message. Also, of course, you'd need to buy an Ooma box.

Hope that helps,

Robert

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IPhone and BB (9650). But not really. As far as I can tell there are similar apps for both such as Dragon dictation. But they require you to cut and paste or the like as far as I know.

Try reqall.com

It will do most of what you have noted. I used Jott before I switched to reqall - it does a few things better, a few things not so good. Overall, though, it's much the same. I combine it with some email rules to accomplish a couple of the tasks you mention.

I think it's $25 a year or thereabouts and they have native smartphone apps.

Android Voice Actions
 

This is a pretty compelling video of Android Voice Actions. jeffcarp was right, this covers all of your requirements.

TalkScribe
 

A number of Jott orphans that only need #4 for personal dictation or (not on the list) voicemail trancription have found a new home at TalkScribe. Take advantage of a free trial until the end of the month to 'see' the quality of the transcription and experience the level of support.

Like @boberonicus and @jeffcarp suggest, there are some great voice recognition features and apps in Android and probably iPhone for relatively short/simple things like tasks, reminders and short SMS. I use them all the time on my Andorid EVO. But for less than quiet controlled environments or longer notes, they can become confused:confused:.

Is it just me or does anybody else think it's absolutely nuts for airlines to use speech recognition on their phone systems? I don't know how many times I've been in an airport trying to fix a flight problem and can't make it through the menus because a boarding announcement talks over my response.:mad:

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