Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1342 days ago

Voice-to-text service Jott has up and reversed their game a bit with their latest service offering—having custom-picked feeds read back to you, over your phone connection. If you're already a Jott member, you should see a feed notice when you log in starting today, where you can choose highlighted feeds (including Lifehacker) or give Jott your custom feeds. Call into Jott, say "Jott feeds" when asked "Who do you want to Jott?" and you're on your way. Setting up popular news feeds and blogs is pretty straight-forward, but you can get more from your feed read-backs with a few tweaks:

When you first head over to your Jott Feeds, you'll have five pre-assigned feeds listed there (including a certain productivity blog). You can delete them and add in your own feeds, including friends' Twitter or FriendFeed streams or other custom RSS. Whatever you choose, click on the feed name for more options:

You can change the name you say to access the feed, and you'll most likely want to un-check the "Read author" tag, unless you really want the full feed-browsing experience while you're in traffic.
You can also skip answering the "Which Feed?" question by assigning hot key numbers to your feeds, which can come in quite handy with awkwardly-named blogs. While you can skip between feeds while listening, I couldn't find a "next item" shortcut, which would've been more handy:

What do you think of Jott's latest web-integrated offering? What crafty RSS-tweaking uses can you think up for it, or what more does it need to be truly useful? Let's hear it in the comments.
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