Jared Evans Global Microbrand

Jott is a voice recognition and message-sending system. After reading this review by Jason Kolb, I could immediately see an additional benefit using Jott to facilitate communication between hearing and deaf people.

Hearing people can dial the Jott phone number and have their verbal message automatically transcribed into an email which is then sent to the Deaf person.

Unfortunately, Jott is currently only one way street from the hearing caller to the Deaf person. It could become even more of a killer app if the Deaf person was able to reply to this email and have Jott’s servers transcribe the text into a voice call back to the hearing caller. This would be even more simpler to implement since text-to-voice feature is much less complex than voice-to-text (have to deal with accents/background noises/muddled audio/etc).

**update** Heather signed up for a Jott account and was able to send me a voice message automatically transcribed into an text email. She had to speak more slowly than normal and clearly but it works like a charm. Only if I could reply back to her! Hope this will be on Jott’s list of future features!