Jott this: Zillow now accessible
By: Spencer Rascoff, Zillow COO | September 5, 2007
One of my favorite services just added Zillow functionality, and I had nothing to do with it. No biz dev deal required; no pitching; no nothing. I’m in heaven.
Jott is a free service that transcribes voice to text. It works like this: set up your cell phone (or any phone) for free with an account, and when you call into Jott’s toll free number you can send yourself a message which will appear in your email a few minutes later. The wav file is also attached to the email, because sometimes the transcription isn’t perfect. It’s a great way to send yourself notes, especially when you can use your phone but not email (e.g., while driving). I send myself at least five “Jotts” a day — I highly recommend the service.
Today, Jott launched the ability to send Jotts to Zillow — add Zillow to your account, and now you can call Jott and say an address, and Jott will email you and text message back the Zestimate. This is a nice complement to “Zillow mobile“, where you can send an address in the subject line of an email to “z@labs.zillow.com” and we’ll send you back the Zestimate and other information.
Kudos to Jott for shipping an innovative new feature using our API.
Updated (11/26/2008) -
With the launch of our Zillow Mobile website, we have discontinued our Zillow Mobile email service. Please point your mobile web browser at http://mobile.zillow.com/ to get Zestimates and more on your mobile device.
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David Bragg on September 5, 2007 12:41 pm
Wow! I am interested to know how accurate this is. Now here is the tricky part. Can it tell the difference between accents. For example, if some one from the southeast, like myself talks, will it throw in all the southern drawl? If it could do that, than you really have something there. HA HA!
No seriously, very cool feature indeed. I am going to look into it.
Thank you,
The David Bragg Team
Gabe on September 5, 2007 10:37 pm
I agree! I’m no realtor or interested in buying a home soon…but tried out the Zillow Jott Link function on my house and another house my dad owns and it was quite accurate! It’s amazing how awesome Jott’s voice recognition is becoming. I haven’t had one problem after the first month of using Jott.
David - I’m almost positive that Jott handles heavy accents well. Give it a try! It’s free! If it doesn’t now..I’m sure it will later. There are too many people in this country with different speech. Jott has to accommodate to all if they want to make it big! haha
The Live Journal link really tickles my fancy too. GOD i love it.
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