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Set Your Agenda by Phone with reQall
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 8:00 AM on January 1, 2008
New voice-to-text reminder service reQall is more than a little bit like the better-known Jott, but stands apart with wide accessibility and support for users in the UK and Canada. As with Jott, the primary feature is a phone number to call and speak a reminder to, which is then transcribed and made available a whole heck of a lot of ways—on your reQall and iGoogle pages, by RSS, through a standard iCal feed, a text message alert, or in a daily email agenda. As you might expect, the transcription isn't perfect (see screenshot above), but fairly accurate and able to both time-shift and set reminders into categories. reQall is currently a free service (and the founders have stated that a free version will remain after beta), and can be signed up for by phone or at the web site.
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Olivier
Posted July 26, 2008 1:32 PM
Can you use it on Australian phones/iPhone 3G?
Please help...
Thankyou in anticipation.
'Liv
burnmp3s
Posted 8:15 AM 31/12/07
From their website: "While the combination of automated speech recognition technology and human transcription provides more accurate results for you, you can also choose to have your recordings transcribed just by the computer."
This is different from Jott, which does not have an option to transcribe with no human interaction. This might make it more useful for people with privacy concerns or other reasons for not having the transcription done by real people.
burnmp3s
ddouthitt
Posted 11:49 AM 31/12/07
Sounds excellent. I hope their transcription is better than Jott; I find Jott is accurate about 30% of the time.
Until it is nearly completely accurate in transcription, I suspect both Jott and reQall will be minor players. Too bad really - the idea has such potential if they would just do it right.
ddouthitt
That_Bastid
Posted 1:04 PM 31/12/07
I get the feeling that Jott is the front-end for a warehouse full of laborers in headsets making ten cents an hour (less room & board.)
That_Bastid
hentropy
Posted 7:21 PM 31/12/07
Very handy. Just tried it with about a dozen short reminders, and got about 95% accuracy. Mostly missed proper names, which isn't surprising. I'm sold. Thanks for the tip, lh.
hentropy