Jott trial update
When I was in the Yosemite area, I tried signing up for Jott, the phone to email message/transcription service. Even though I had wireless and phone service, I wasn’t able to complete registration for some mysterious reason.
Once home, I completed registration without any trouble whatsoever. I called the 800# from my cell phone to send my first Jott. The recorded voice asked, “Who do you want to Jott?” I answered, “myself”. Then promptly drew a blank on something to say. “This is my first test Jott.” Wow. Profound. Not.
I tried another one. “Who do you want to Jott?” “Myself” then, “Call Mark.” Another recorded voice immediately jumped on me to exclaim “I do not understand”. “Call Mark” “I do not understand.”
This call and response repeated 5 times until I was ready to do something drastic with my phone. For the same reason that limitless phone navigation trees can illicit unreasonable responses from otherwise patient human beings, hearing “I do not understand” after something so simple was rather frustrating. Funny thing is that when I got home, there was, in fact, a Jott email waiting for me that reported: “Call Mark.” Minor glitch in the system perhaps?
After another successful usage the other day, I was feeling amenable to the service. Until today. I still haven’t receive the email message from a Jott I sent over 12 hours ago. Hmmm. “I do not understand.”
I’ll try it a few more times. Unreliable messages will definitely put a damper on my enthusiasm. Right now, I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt–user error? one-time glitch? I’ll let you know what I think.
