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May 8

Jott.com vs twitterfone.com vs the rest…

Well, I can’t say I have a comparison of all services yet, as I can’t seem to get an invite to twitterfone.com the one service I really want to compare to jott.com

With that, once I get an invite to really test this “other” speech to text service I’ll let you know.

Here’s a basic line up:

Jott.com > I have this account and it ROCKS!

Not only can I send messages longer than the typical competing services 10-14 seconds, it can be posted to numerous services by simply speaking where you want it to go; (either by setting up your Social Network login info, or by pre-populating your address book). Here are a few: twitter, WordPress, Yahoo Groups, Jaiku, Zillow, Thirty Boxes, Live Journal, TypePad, Tumblr, Milk Remember the Milk, Sandy, Xpenser, Gumiyo, Trapster, Mosio, Vitalist, Google Calendar, Recommendr, Toodledo, Nozbe, Mentat, Keep Up, custom Services and any email address or phone number, etc., etc.

You also only need to program one phone number to call in your address book and for the US it’s toll free.

At present, sign-up was easy, and quick, no invite needed (that could change from the time of this posting)… but over all it was a breeze to initiate and get started with right away!

It has a bit of trouble understanding non-English words, but I’m sure that will be resolved soon with constant updates to their excellent service!

I was simply ecstatic that I could leave an lengthy email message via my voice and Jott.com translated it perfectly. (excluding non-English words).

I also enjoy having the option to create groups, that will allow posting to multiple services at once, such as twitter and my blog and brightkite, etc. Granted, I’m still looking for an all in one solution to this… as they all have such different features and trying to incorporate all of them with a group sending (blast) is a task in itself.

In addition to the other wonderful things, I tested the “length capability” with a long post I made to twitter, it auto truncates it with a url to the full post and audio track for users to read and or listen to. That is cool! So, if you go over the 140 characters with twitter, no worries, it’ll still be intact!

Coming through with a text message was a bit of a poo, their advertising got in the way of the message, truncating most of it… but that could be different if being sent to another jott.com user. (no need to advertise).

The home page is easy to use and it’s all right up front for you to use and see. Granted I could not find a mobile version to modify my account from my phone, at least it was easy to use from a standard browser… (setup). I could easily add contacts or socialNetworking accounts, etc. with a couple clicks!

twitterfone.com > still trying to get an invite :( .. but I here it’s cool. :)

Spinvox.com > signed up > it’s ok

They say on their homepage that sign-ups are processed by humans, hmmmm, (although a nice thought) the email confirmation, (sign-up confirmation) came through in less than 5 seconds.. I wish I were that fast at processing information and sending out the confirmation email.

Sadly, with spinVox, you have to use multiple numbers to do many things… I prefer a one number function with voice commands like Jott.

Their pages are lengthy and cluttered, (a bit hard to navigate in comparison to some) and setting up other socialNetworks is not as easy as Jott.

I tried to setup a blog to post to using spinVox and unfortunately it tells me my account is not setup yet. (perhaps that is the “human setup” they were referring to in the beginning.)

Also, I seemed unable to setup twitter or other socialNetworks without creating a “spinVox Labs” account?! Seems a bit of a hassle to use a service that is suppose to be catering to multiple functions… no? Why would I want to setup multiple accounts/service on one service to use other multiple services? Again, “All in One”!

Other services out there like twittergram.com and twitsay.com seem to limit you to 10 second recordings (per another user review)… (compared to jott.com’s service, I’m loving the ability to send an entire message, not just a short 140 character twit or tweet).

All in all, I am impressed with Jott.com’s service the most so far. It offers many things I would most definitely use and will continue to. Should I actually manage to get a twitterfone account I’ll be sure to update the post and or make a new one regarding the new comparison.

6 comments

6 Comments so far

  1. Matt Hanson May 8th, 2008 09:40:04

    Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..

    Matt Hanson

  2. Noel May 8th, 2008 15:43:01

    Thanks for the post, I agree with you on Spinvox. They seem to have a cool “vibe” on the site but it’s a little clunky and hard to read. We’re big fans of Jott at Mosio because it just worked right away, no problems. Plus, the people who work there are very nice, they seem to have a great thing going.

    Looking forward to seeing what happens with Twitterfone, it seems awfully niche oriented considering you can post to Twitter via Jott, Spinvox, Utterz, etc and do all of the other things with them as well. Twitterfone does have cute web design though…

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  4. pat phelan May 10th, 2008 03:23:34

    here’s an invite, hopefully you will get this first
    ——
    You got my email.
    thanks for the mention

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