Nuance To Close Down Jott

Back in 2006, before smartphones became really popular, a service called Jott was developed to make regular cell phones smarter. You dialed a toll free number, waited for a prompt that said, “Who do you want to Jott?” and based on what you said next, you could send someone an e-mail or text message by speaking the message that the service translated to text. Over the years Jott added integration with other web apps so that, for example, you could add an appointment to Google Calendar.