OMG, Jott is people.

When I first saw Jott.com and learned that it “converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments” I was really impressed. It seems like everyone at some point or another has dabbled in voice transcription, including IBM, Microsoft and Apple, with mediocre results. Then out of nowhere this little online startup not only develops a voice transcriber that is scarily accurate, they find a way to do it over mobile. Amazing. Or maybe not.

“[Jott] is a really easy and useful service, and we may be hooked. Here’s the intriguing part: Jott sends your messages to India for transcription. There, cheaply paid workers are listening to your voice message, and typing down the text in an email, which they then shoot off to the recipient. It took us about five minutes to receive our transcribed message tests — and they were perfectly done.” - Venture Beat

It turns out that Jott is not an advanced proprietary technology that has pushed the boundary of software development. Jott is People. Anyone else feel a little Deja Vu. Where have I seen an ‘advanced technology’ that actually turned out to be people ‘repackaged’? OMG … that’s creepy.