| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.09.2017 | Zello tops US app store as the walkie-talkie for hurricane volunteers | With Hurricane Irma hitting Florida’s southern islands as a category four storm, and more than 6.3 million being told to evacuate Florida, being able to stay in contact with the outside world is a high priority. As a result, smartphone apps... |
| 08.06.2015 | Messaging App Jott Is Blowing Up Among Junior High And High Schoolers | As Facebook and YikYak try to grow a younger audience, a startup that taps into one of the key attribute of teen users – no money for data plans – is blowing up.
Jott, a messaging app that works without a data plan or WiFi connection, has c... |
| 29.02.2012 | How to Craft a Killer Elevator Pitch That Will Land You Big Business | Redeem now
What is an Elevator Pitch?
This is the 30-60 second business description of what you do and why someone should work with you. It's called an "Elevator Pitch" because it describes the challenge: "How would you expla... |
| 04.04.2011 | Nuance unplugs Jott: Voice-to-text service to end May 3rd | You won’t be able to Jott anymore. The mobile service, which allowed users to convert voice messages to text, will be turned off on May 3rd. Started in April 2006 by former Microsofties John Pollard and Shreedhar Madhavapeddi, the Seattle c... |
| 12.01.2010 | Voice-Activated Internet: Text-Free Tweeting, Blogging & More | As some of our readers know, I was clumsy enough to hack off a chunk of my finger while making dinner a couple nights ago. This incident has severely curtailed my blogging activity, but it’s led to a fortunate inspiration, as well!
For thos... |
| 30.12.2009 | Does voice-to-text technology actually work? | No matter how fast we learn to type, it’s never going to catch up to how fast we can speak. Luckily for us, technology might mean it doesn’t have to. Voice-to-text technology is entering more and more industries, and has the potential to ma... |
| 10.11.2009 | Sponsor Post: 10 Killer Tools for Small-Business Success | Editor’s note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write ‘Sponsor Posts’ and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope ... |
| 14.07.2009 | Nuance Acquires Jott | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), the Burlington, MA-based voice technology juggernaut that has already absorbed most of its East Coast competitors, reached west today, an... |
| 14.07.2009 | Nuance acquires Jott, the simple voice-to-text mobile phone service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Speech recognition company Nuance has acquired Jott, a company that lets you use your voice to create notes, set reminders, send email ... |
| 14.07.2009 | Nuance acquires Jott, the simple voice-to-text mobile phone service | Speech recognition company Nuance has acquired Jott, a company that lets you use your voice to create notes, set reminders, send email and text messages.
We wrote about Jott when it first launched two years ago and praised it for its simpli... |
| 18.06.2009 | SpinVox rolls out across Latin America | SpinVox, the voice to text messaging provider, is rolling out across 12 more countries in Telefónica’s network across Latin America. The move follows the October 2008 launch with Telefónica’s Movistar Chile.
The countries include Argentina,... |
| 02.02.2009 | The Early Adopter Gets the Worm | There are a dizzying number of cool new services, applications, and gadgets available to citizens of the world today. New stuff is coming out all the time and it can be hard for us Internet experts to keep up, let alone average human beings... |
| 13.01.2009 | No More Free Jott For You | In August voice-to-text service Jott moved out of beta and added a premium feature for $4/month. Since then, the company says, about 30% of Jott’s active users have opted for the premium, no-ads version of the service.
People use it to send... |
| 13.01.2009 | Jott Moves to Paid Model, Rolls Out New Service | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Jott, which provides free voice-to-text services for e-mail and text messaging, announced today it is moving to a paid model effective February 2. Jott Founder a... |
| 21.11.2008 | Springpad Wants to Be Your Online Home for the Holidays, And After | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re like me, you go through life with the vague hope that someday, technology will help you become a more efficient person. How often I’ve driven to the grocery store or... |
| 16.09.2008 | Jott’s Move From Free to Premium – Bait and Switch or Good Business? | Many Web 2.0 companies have tried to make money by charging for their product, but it can be hard work – especially if the product started out as free. Jott, a voice to text transcription service, is an example of one that took the plunge a... |
| 22.08.2008 | Jott.com: an Interview with CEO John Pollard | For about two years, Seattle-based Jott Networks Inc. has provided a service called Jott. People call a toll-free number, record a message, and see the words translated into text and emailed, either to themselves or someone on their contact... |
| 21.08.2008 | Jott Leaves Beta, Continues To Do One Thing Awesome | When Seattle-based voice to text service Jott first went live in December 2006 I wrote: “It’s very simple – a user calls a specific phone number and leaves a voice message along with a recipient or recipients (an obvious use for Jott will b... |
| 15.08.2008 | Use your iPhone for jotting | iPhone users with fat thumbs can now take advantage of a free application that turns short voice recordings into written notes.
iPhone users with fat thumbs can now take advantage of a free application that turns short voice recordings into... |
| 30.07.2008 | Some Web Apps Work Better Together | How many new websites can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle? Sometimes it feels like that’s what we’re trying to do these days – but all these new applications and services don’t have to be crammed into our heads and lives as separate things t... |
| 08.07.2008 | TSheets Lets You Clock-in To Work From Your iPhone | TSheets, a web enabled timeclock tracker, has just introduced an iPhone web app version of its site. The web application allows users to clock in or out of work from a remote location, and also gives professionals a handy way to keep track ... |
| 06.05.2008 | Use TwitterFone For Easy Voice-To-Text On Twitter | Twitter is certainly usable via SMS on a mobile device, but typing messages on a phone is cumbersome. A service that converts voice to text and then posts it to Twitter could be a niche hit.
A number of services have launched to allow users... |
| 25.03.2008 | Jott.com review | This morning I got my mytreo.net Newsletter and despite the fact that the page anchors don’t work in Gmail, I read (skimmed) the first paragraph and decided to try the service they were promoting, Jott.
The link in the email took me to a Pa... |
| 25.03.2008 | BFF review: Jott.com | This morning I got my mytreo.net Newsletter and despite the fact that the page anchors don’t work in Gmail, I read (skimmed) the first paragraph and decided to try the service they were promoting, Jott.
The link in the email took me to a Pa... |
| 21.03.2008 | SpinVox raises whopping $100M+ for voicemail to text conversion | SpinVox, a London company that converts your voicemail into text, has raised more than $100 million to expand quickly by signing deals with large telecom carriers around the world — an apparent land-grab.
The amount of cash is significant, ... |
| 01.11.2007 | New Release: Tumblr 3.0 & Interview with Founder on Read/WriteTalk | For the most recent episode of Read/WriteTalk I sat down with David Karp, the founder of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that makes it easy to create Tumblelogs – which Wikipedia defines as:
A variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed... |
| 17.09.2007 | TechCrunch40: Mobile and Communications | The second session of the first day of the TechCrunch40 conference was on the topic “Mobile and Communications.” There were very interesting companies but unfortunately, they all suffered bad connection & coverage problems, so they coul... |
| 04.09.2007 | Jott Launches Jott Links: Web 2.0 By Phone | Seattle-based Jott, a mobile phone service that lets users record and send emails, text messages, and to-do lists via speech-to-text over their mobile phones, today launched a new suite of tools based around popular web 2.0 sites. The new “... |
| 05.06.2007 | Bubble Motion, trying to bring voice SMS to U.S. | Bubble Motion is a texting (SMS) service that eliminates the need to type out message on that tiny keypad, and lets you leave voice message instead.
Many of us are texting, but we aren’t leaving voice messages via SMS — because carriers are... |
| 10.05.2007 | Jott raises $5.4M for voice-to-text | Jott, the convenient voice-to-text service we reviewed favorably in March, has raised $5.4 million in its latest round of financing.
Jott, of Seattle, allows you to call a number, record a message, and then have that message translated into... |
| 26.03.2007 | Jott, a convenient voice-to-text service | Jott rocks.
Jott, a company based in Seattle, offers a convenient new service that lets you speak messages and send them to yourself or others — as a transcribed text message.
Or as a voice message, if you prefer.
Sign up at Jott.com takes ... |
| 11.12.2006 | Jott raises $1 million to covert voice from mobile phone into text | Jott Networks is a new Seattle startup that allows anyone with a cell phone to convert their voice into text and have it delivered via e-mail. See John Cook’s story here.
It has raised $1 million in seed funding from Ackerley Partners, Drap... |
| 10.12.2006 | Jott to Convert Cell Phone Calls to Text | Seattle based Jott will launch its new voice to text product sometime this week. It’s very simple – a user calls a specific phone number and leaves a voice message along with a recipient or recipients (an obvious use for Jott will be for pe... |
