[Lotus99]

Last year when Jott was free for a few months before they started charging for it, I had it installed on my Pearl, and it was great. But then they started charging $13 a month for it, which I didn't want to pay for the occasional email I reply to using my voice, or the messages to myself I would send (which I found the most valuable).

In case you've not heard of it, it's here Jott.com | Jott Assistant. Voice-to-Text Notes, To Dos & Reminders. Hands-free Email & Text Messaging. Group Messaging.

Has anyone come across a service like Jott that's free? Or a software for the BB that does speech to text? I'm guessing speech recognition software's not there yet as far as capability to do a decent job transcribing, as I tried one on my PC, and it barely managed to catch most words.

Which is probably why Jott has a bunch of people in India doing the work... and hence they are a pay service.

[jsconyers]

Try Vlingo. I use it occasionally when I am driving to send a text or an email. You can get it from App World.

[Lotus99]

Sweet! You are DA MAN! (or WOMAN!)

From a quick look, seems to operate just like the old Jott did! Same business model too:

"To improve speech recognition accuracy for our entire community of users, we are initially offering Vlingo for free. Charging a fee would introduce a barrier to improvement and slow the process. While we can't say Vlingo will always be free, currently it is free."

I'll take it while it's free!

PS You can download it directly from their site too it seems, where I've signed up for it.

[jsconyers]

Yep, it's currently free. Try it out and let us know what you think

[Lotus99]

HOLY JAW DROP BATMAN! Just installed it, and the list of things it can do is amazing! And the voice recognition built into it kills me! I thought that only fancy softwares on PC's with big processors could understand human speech and turn it into text, and even that required a bunch of learning your voice, etc.

This has been bang on the few times I tested it out of the box! WOW! They should release the software for voice recognition on a PC if that's what it can do on a little BB!

This blows Jott out of the water!

[VIOLATOR]

Since you like Vlingo so much, and if you want a another organizational service, try ReQall. I use the free version as well as Vlingo.

reQall: What's reQall


David

[Lotus99]

Sounds interesting too. What do you use it for that Vlingo can't? Vlingo seems to cover off being able to do all the things it also does, except for adding things directly to your calendar. Anything else?

as far as reminding you of meetings, doesn't the reminder feature on a BB's calendar that goes off xx minutes before a meeting work fine already?

And how does the memory jogger thing work? description seems too vague... what's a real life scenario how it would work?

[VIOLATOR]

I use ReQall for several different things. The main thing I use it for is tracking my household bills. My wife and I work crazy hours so I log all my bills and when they are due on Reqall and it reminds me when they are coming due and when they are due.

I also use it as an ongoing "Shopping List". I just announce what I need to get from the store, Milk, bread, beer, coffee, sugar, more beer, paper towels. Then it sends it back to me as an e-mail.

The Memory Jogger sends you a scheduled notice of events coming up. I set mine to come at 5:30 every morning.

Like I said - I am busy as heyell and am on the run a lot. I am also involved in a lot of things so I use the BB Calender and Google Calender Reminders as well as ReQall. It is a really cool and functional service once you start playing with it.

David