A spot of Jott will do ya just fine

Speech-to-text tools have been evolving for a while now.  A tool that I've been playing with a bit and LOVE is Jott, which is in public beta testing right now.  Send Jott your e-mail Contacts through Outlook/Gmail etc. Then you just call the Jott number and talk.  Your words can be sent to yourself, another person, or a group via e-mail or text-message.  How cool is that? 

For me, with my 90 minute commute each way, this is a great tool.  I can send myself reminders, send myself the draft of a memo or report, send e-mails to other people asking quick questions, you name it.  It works in the US and Canada, takes only a few minutes to set up, and works pretty darn well recognizing what you've said.  You just talk clearly, it captures your words, and that's it!  You can do one after the other quickly without going through menus.  And really, you don't even need to talk that clearly.  I started off enunciating like crazy, but then got sloppier and lazier with my speech and it still picked everything up perfectly--even sentence structure. 

It's very, very cool and I highly recommend trying it.  A few tips for successful Jott fun: 1) make sure your contacts are listed with first and last names 2) set up one account for work and one for home 3) Each one is limited to 30 seconds, but don't freak out--just send yourself multiple ones back to back if you have to.

I heart Jott :)