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Reply to BlackBerry emails with voice – Jott does voice recognition on BlackBerry

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 3:44 PM

With all the push-emailing and that industry-setting QWERTY keyboard on RIM’s BlackBerry handsets, we can see how all those thumbs out there could start to get worn out. If you haven’t already injured your thumbs with all that tap-tapping, Jott wants save your thumbs from eventual injury.

The new Jott application is aimed at BlackBerry 8800, 8300, and 8100 smartphones and adds a “Reply with Jott” option to all email menus. With an on-screen prompt and a couple voice commands, Jott allows users to reply to emails with voice-dictated emails. Jott works over Bluetooth headsets as well.

Jott does voice recognition for BlackBerry

Jott claims that voice-replies to emails are 3 to 5 times faster than tapping out the message with your thumbs – so you might be better off shooting out all those emails by voice rather than typing. It also opens up the possibility of replying to emails while driving or with a handful of, say, groceries.

To download the Jott application for your BlackBerry, point your BlackBerry browser to www.jott.com/bb and download the app.

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Brooke

    You do not have to download anything to use Jott. You DO have to download the Jott for BB app.

    Jott works the same way, you add contacts to your contact list, and then call into Jott and send a voice message (or you can send Jotts from their website). Jott then sends out a text and an email to your contact and currently it is TOTALLY free.

    Jott for BB allows you to reply to emails and the contacts you are replying to do not have to be in your Jott contact list. Jott for BB is also free.

  • diaper

    This works a treat!