1. Why does it matter who does the transcription? Indian, American, Eskimo, Asian, they are all people offering a service.
2. Voice to text transcription has been used for decades by many professionals and now it is becoming readily available to the masses in a cost effective manner. Our private medical status is often dictated into any number of devices and then sent off to a transcription service (people) who then send the info back to the doctors office. It was not too long ago that I watched this process…it went like this:
A) Write chicken scratch notes that the doctor can’t read.
B) Look at your notes and dictate into whatever kind of recording device as best as you can a recap.
C)Send off the tape or whatever to a transcription service
D)Voice is transcribed by humans.
E)Plastic sheets are sent back all hodge podge that have the notes typed up on clear plastic stickers
F)Assistant at office peels these off and places into patient file.

We have a come a long way!
3. What privacy issue do you have with Jott or with Google? I know in detail how both services work, have you researched either or did you just jump on the bandwagon with the rest of the security phobes? You might want to do some of your own research.
4. I would pay for Jott. How much? I don’t know, but I would pay per message probably and I am already doing more updates on my blog because of it.
5. I use jott for quick messages to groups, myself, appointments etc. It is all well and good to say use a pencil and paper, but what about those of us (more and more now a days) that are on the move constantly and multi-task to the Nth degree…to be able to leave a note while I walk here and there saves me lots of time and my time is precious as is yours.
6. This will be completely software driven eventually…
7. the possibilities are endless as many services allow emails to be sent to them for various triggers…now you can use jott and use voice commands.

rant over.

But you are totally fine with some american listening and retyping your personal messages that are confidential?

Security – yes…we all don’t want some wack-o see, hearing, and typing our own messages be it personal or not. But you would think legal issues were first on their mind when this idea of “jott” came about. From my understanding, Jott has seemed to have the issue of privacy and security under control.

Yes…their are human transcribers that take your voice to email, text, etc…BUT they also have voice recognition software. They integrate both means to make transcription as clean as possible. haha and I noticed people scared of someone from “India reading and typing” their messages. Well the human transcribers are all over the place..not just India.

A reply to Greg’s comment…You can tell your wife that it can be more than just “being lazy”. Jott has many implementations. As for me, I use it for remembering guitar riffs when I don’t have my guitar on me. And it helps especially when I’m in my car! I’ve heard of real estate agents using jott, for what…I forget haha.

Anywho, just wanted to clear up a few things people seemed to be concerned about with jott. Like I said…I’ve been a jotter for a while and it has brought nothing but goodness to me. Hope ya’ll find some good use with Jott and don’t feel guilty….YOU’RE NOT BEING LAZY! haha

as for privacy, if you’re clueless enough to use GMail, you already don’t give a whizz about privacy.