BenjaminSte.in

I am so excited for Jott’s newest feature — reading text (RSS feeds) to you outloud over the phone!

Given that I am a zealous PhoneTag user and have all my voicemail transcribed to text, this seems like a strange thing for me to be interested in.  However it is precisely because of PhoneTag that I need a service like this!

You see, I ride my bike a lot and I usually like to listen to music (technically podcasts sped up 160%) while I ride.  Things got really intereting when I got an iPhone: because the earbuds double as a hand-free phone headset, I started talking on the phone while I ride.  Unforunately (fortunately?) it’s still very difficult to text while you ride, so I tend not to do that very often.

So imagine this common situation: I’m riding my bike and totally rocking out to something when a call comes in.  For whatever reason I decide not to answer it and the person leaves a voicemail.  I’m curious what it says, but I obviously hate listening to voicemail.  So I get a text message alert saying I have voicemail, the transcription arrives in my email inbox, I automatically publish the email as an RSS feed, and then I have Jott read it to me!  Awesome!