Use TwitterFone For Easy Voice-To-Text On Twitter

I’m adorable

How many services can rely solely on Twitter? Wow.

I actually do need one. Do you really want me trying to Twitter while driving down the highway? I mean, sometimes things just need to be said.

I use antlers in all of my decorating.

By the way, what about Jott?!

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I need it so I can tweet about my startup ideas while driving (:

I’ve been using Jott to transcribe my voice into tweets. It seems just as easy as this plus you don’t need to add a new number to your phone.

See http://jott.com/jott/twitter.html

Can I HAS a teletubby theme for twitterfun?

This would be the perfect way to twitter while driving, and keeping your hands on the wheel. (using a handsfree device, that is).

That’s hilarious about the coughing–I always end up choking in the middle of leaving outgoing voicemail messages. I’ve just activated Voice Recognition on my Dell, and am enthralled by the possibilities, but it has to learn my voice better, because there are still lots of transcription mistakes.

This sounds like a great new technology, though.

Earth is flat. Isn’t *that* compelling ?

I don’t pay for a SMS plan. I need this service.

my kid is disabled and there are numerous times when he is in need of quick medical care. having something like this would allow me to contact friends, family, support network in one shot

This is really interesting! I also found something cool.. you can download your voice message in mp3 format (if you require one) by visiting the twitterfone page and adding .mp3 extension at the end!

Try this: http://www.twitterfone.com/l/jdlm2tanwm6y.mp3 (Actual URL: http://www.twitterfone.com/l/jdlm2tanwm6y + .mp3) !!

Any invite codes available ?

Cheers,
Vinay

I have 20 million dolars in an account in Nigeria and I need twitterphone in order to be in contact with my distant relative cousin in the u.s.a who can help me transfer the funds. If you give me a twitterphone invite and your bank account number, I assure you that I can provide you with 10% of the transaction value. This is 100% safe and legal.

I’m constantly mistyping my tweets. Damn these fat fingers!

I need this like nobody’s business. considering it takes me an hour to drive 14 miles to work, it’s only a matter of time before I cause an accident by twittering while driving (#twd). TwitterFone, assuming it understands me, could save my life and others.

It will make it easier for me to record the Chuck Norris Fact battles we have in our office. Example: When you open a can of whoop a.. Chuck Norris jumps out. Reply: All ninety-nine of Jay-Z’s problems are Chuck Norris. It will be easier to twitter the battle with a mic then with a text.

You have invites? I’d love to try it.

Who would *not* want to trash talk their Twitter friends in hands-free mode?

Great lead Michael, I’m currently testing the convergence of voice and blogging services including Pinger (www.pinger.com) and Grand Cental (www. grandcentral.com). Had a early look at MySay but moved everything over to Pinger.

Suffice it to say that there are some cool voice integration services coming our way. I’d like to check out this service too and see if it makes reaching the blogosphere more dynamic and more interesting.

i tried both twitsay (http://twitsay.com/) and twittergram (http://www.twittergram.com/phone). both are also free. twitsay only lets you leave 10 second messages, but at least you can call a german number (uk and us numbers coming soon). twittergram you call blogtalkradio. it would be nice to find one service that allows for longer messages and has international numbers. i’d like to try twitterfone. but i still have my doubts that this will be the big thing.

i need it because my hands are starting to hurt now i just need a thought to twitter interface.

I’d love a TwitterFone account. I don’t get to Twit away from the computer because sms messages are too expensive. But I have free nights and weekends on my phone, which just so happen to be the times I’m way from the computer. It would allow me to use Twitter much more!

I’ve got a pretty bad cough. Maybe this will help.

’cause TechCrunch is the BEST !!

Twitter is my drug and twitterfone is a much badly needed route of administration.

want to try twitterfone to see if it would be good for security validation and decreasing cc fraud….at points of purchase, it would be great if the cc companies text you a security q, and you call back and just respond by voice or text….

Hi! I would love to try this out because I am going to San Francisco for an event and would love to update my readers on GA with quick twitters. Mostly because I won’t be able to write until the end of the night. I hope you pick me!!

Trina ^_^

I’m part Irish
I’m traveling all over the place this month
So I will definitely use it

@16 .. that was funny !!! Waiting for invite code please !

I’m really popular so typing all of my tweets by sms-text cramps my hands and doing it all by voice would be a more effective way to let my followers keep up with me. Plus I think the twitterfone technology is awesome.

gosh dangit! i don’t have an iphone, twitter sucks to text to, and SOMEBODY needs to be enabler to by twitter addiction! i neeed it.

I commute from Sunnyvale to SF every morning

I’ll use it in my negotiations with Quaker Oats to get them to rename the sugarery goodness that is the “Cap’n Crunch” to something more tech savvy (I wonder What we could replace Cap’n with?)

Covering the Magic vs Pistons Game on Saturday. Could voice updates at crucial moments. That would rock!

would be cool to integrate into the dailytwitter.com site, as part of an alpha trial - a microblogging newspaper for twitter channels, this would be a good way of looking at bringing on board more citizen journalists using different technologies to build the editorial in the site.

dt

checked your prostate and it’s okay; can I get a beta account?

Here’s why I should receive a beta account:

1. Because I actually followed directions and am leaving a ‘compelling reason’ on comments as you requested
2. I am a big advocate of social media tools like this to begin with, and would happily blog about my experience using this tool, thus spreading the good (or bad?) word.
3. Because apparently I like to tweet while driving which isn’t safe, so it would help to keep other drivers around me on the road safe.
4. Because I do travel often, and see above reason…
5. It would be amusing to my followers, as I tend to speak my thoughts before filtering through a brain cell quite often (uncensored Research Goddess).
6. I took the time to numerically list my reasons in an orderly fashion.

@40 Good tactic, Amybeth, but Arrington doesn’t strike me as a by the numbers kind of guy.

I love it try out new Web services since I am a computer consultant and can advise people on what’s good, what’s not, what’s hot, what works. twitter.com/cbee

In the third grade, a crazy, spooky looking girl chased me with finger paint, and smeared it on my shirt, cackling like the wicked witch. It left emotional scars (at night I still hear the laughing, and I constantly check the back of shirts I’m wearing in the mirror).

The Twitterfone account would help with the healing.

I am Canadian and we don’t have iphones and I have a horrid text-unfriendly phone.
Confession: I use Jot right now but it’s accuracy is so that I have followers who think I am a poet talking about gestational headpant when I am just observing a
gas station attendant.

Certainly feels like the whole world revolves around Twitter… at least for now

Wait til we can leave comments here using Twitterfone. Much better than those dumbass Seesmic video comments.

I’d love to check out this fascinating-sounding service and write about it on my site, Online Media Cultist, and tweet about it (and on it) on Twitter.

I don’t know if that’s a compelling enough reason for y’all to provide me with a private beta invite, but that’s my reason, and I’m sticking to it.

Could this be integrated with Seesmic, so when you Tweet on the Fone … and do it while simultaneously recording a Seesmic video comment … you get a video and text as well.

I confess I don’t really really need a beta account, but I still want one because I’m a test junkie.

I actually began work on this same of service at Tweet.FM, but I’m hesitant to launch because I just don’t think the voice over twitter medium will take off. There could eventually be some niche that it will become applicable to, but just leaving simple tweets in audio form won’t be all that useful, as we’ll likely find out over the next year or so. Similar services have tried it, and failed. Hell, even Twitter’s founders started with Odeo (audio blogging), then realized text micro-blogging was where it was at, founded Twitter, and sold Odeo. I don’t that failure was a “Just not the right time” thing either.

The main issue in my mind is that people need something visually to entertain them, or they lose interest very quickly. Who is the YouTube of audio? Houndbite? Evoca? Yeah, exactly, “Who?” Seesmic will work because there is that visual aspect, but it won’t ever explode because preparing for near real-time audio/video is a whole different beast than just thinking of what to type in 140 characters.

So, hopefully some useful application will arise out of it, but since I started development on Tweet.FM, I’ve crossed off most of the 15 or so uses I can see for it. It’s like Jott.com. Cool? Yes. Will people find any practical purpose for it? No.

Actually, I don’t need it for myself so much as for my dog. His paws make typing on the computer, and especially on a cell phone, really hard. At least this way he can just mash a button and start barking. He’d be really appreciative to not have to ask the cat to transcribe for him everytime he tweets.

Can I have an invite please? I use twitter all the time and making calls rather than texting will save me money!!!

I vote for an account to Pete #51

Dogs rule

I need it cause my mom won’t let me use the computer after school but I can talk on the phone.

For those of you who did not get access to Twitterfone’s beta, as was mentioned, Jott has offered a similar service for free, via a toll free number (1 866 JOTT 123), for well over six months (thanks David K., Ishan and Jed for calling this out).

Check out the URL above for more, or sign up for free at Jott.com. BTW, from the same number we also let you Jott to Jaiku, Google Calendar, Amazon, Remember the Milk, and over 20 other popular web services.

John Pollard
CEO, Jott

Man, this will be a great service to record my friday and saturday evening conversations in the pub. It’ll be the greatest twitter feed in history.

Even better — girls or … pants dialing. Can’t wait to test it.

My fingers are too big for my phone’s keyboard so I cannot type ;-(
I’d love to try the new service

Jott is pretty accurate even with my accent.

For those comments that indicate drunk dialing fun to be had, I always wonder if there is a mechanical turk powering drunk transcription vs. a high end audio analysis application.

I’m one of the top Twitter guys out there.
Make it way easier to microblog!

spinvox has been doing that for ages

I need one so that history can see AND hear my tweets. That, and, well … have you ever tried typing on an iPhone?

I am going to be SO dead when the hubby finds out I’ve gone Nutzoid over TwitterToys…but this is more than a toy! I needs to has it I duz!! Awesome

I love this idea. I think that the mishapps with translation could be part of the fun!

Looks good, looking forward to trying it out.

This is a fscking HOT service. Yes, I know others do it, but this is bog simple.

@tommyl we will offer audio tweets history as well but only for tweets posted on TwitterFone
@ksso I don’t so. We provide a unique number per user. Local numbers. You are in France you get a French number. You post to Twitter only.
@toddJordan what’s a top Twitter

sounds great - can’t wait to try it !!

Well done Pat, awesome implementation. I hope you add a profanity filter for when I’m using it in the car

Signed up and using it, works like an Irish Charm, few tweaks required maybe like not sending un transcribed messages to Twitter.

Otherwise it’s spot on simple and damn useful, feckin excellent work lads

I just used TwitterFone for the first time and I was thoroughly impressed with the accuracy and speed at which the TTS process worked.

Well done!

Thanks Mike for the wonderful post
We are very excited at the launch of twitterfone. We will add 1 country per week. This is going to be a global service
Thanks to everyone for their good wishes

I need a Twitterfone account to ensure I don’t knock down any (more) women and kids by Tweeting while driving!

SMS is cheap, voice on mobile isn’t.

Mike, Next time you have a fit of coughing or change your mind half way through recording your tweet, just press the * key and your tweet will be cancelled likes it never happened. We’ll make that clearer. Thanks:)

This is a really nice service, I use Jott as well, but I love the twitter feature. Hurry hurry .. I want my invite

-M

Twitterfone is a very exciting service. I can’t wait to dip my toes in and play with it. I love the convenience of it all. Congratulations to Pat, Florian, Sean and the rest of the TF team. It’s a very cool tool and something I will use regularly.

For driving… wouldn’t want another M50 pile-up so I need to make the most of that lovely bluetooth gismo I shelled out for.

I can haz twitfone… please?

Debbie

The other day I saw a guy walking down the street playing one of those keyboard / recorder / flute things. You can’t tweet on your phone fast enough to get that in. If only I’d had a twitterfone account, I could have shared that moment with the twitter world.

I need a Twitterfone account because I have my arms full with beta software AND small children at the same time - not too dissimilar, actually… I also think it’ll be amusing to see what happens to the transcription when an infant starts screaming in the background…

great stuff. I do expect to see “mumbles” on a lot of my posts, but its going to be fun to play with.

jott.com

need it for when I see Michael Lynn having a glass of red…with his guitar and his hippo!

Wow, the Jottsters are out in full armour.

I have a phone (actually, many). I have a Twitter account. I need a Twitterfone beta account (or I ask David Marcus directly and you won’t have the pleasure of being the Keymaster for me).

sounds like a great project - will wait for a .au local number before i try it out tho

A welcome addition to my media arsenal! Can’t WAIT to get my invite!

Okay, the coughing is great and that it was transcribed as (coughing).

I actually do need one. Do you really want me trying to Twitter while driving down the highway? I mean, sometimes things just need to be said.

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com/

hey, twitter is one of my main technology promotion business tool and now I’ll be able to use it on my mobile office (aka my car ;p).

now we could think also to use twitter as a personal (non blonde ;p) secretary at least for only a couple of seconds right now but maybe longer later on

on another side, might twitter become thru services such as TwitterFone another entry door to Microsoft Exchange 2007 vocalisation services to post agenda items or task items on my groupware account?

finally, I need a FoneTwitter tool !! yes mirroring of TwitterFone to listen to my friends post either their already available audio post or their texpostt2voice into my car bluetooth install binded to my mobile phone

again, thanks MaxRoam, Dial2do and Zong for this fun and useful new service platform

friendly your

Carmelo/IPgeek

This has been something I’ve been looking for for quite a long time. Great work Pat!

LOVIN’ IT!

Nice work Pat!

Does this count

I’d like an invite because I’ve seen friends use Jott, and would like to test this one out instead.

Looks to me like TF is kicking Jott’s ass. And Jott is looking scared.

Oh, and why do I need the service, to begin with? I need to be able to send updates while driving, or while my stupid MacBook can’t see the wifi router that’s 10 foot away…

Congrats to Pat and all the folks at TwitterFone.

I wonder how many people are hitting refresh on their browser and have a comment like this one queued up to try and get comment #100 to get an invite. Surely there must be a better way? http://is.gd/cVP

I setup a Jott 2 Twitter gateway about 6 months ago, but it was pretty hacky. Haven’t used Jott in quite some time, and while I’ve used Dave Winer’s Twittergram service a bit, I like the idea of using TTS to translate for Twitter posting, so long as it works reasonably well. Not being able to edit Tweets means that services like this better get it right the first time you record/post. Too bad you can’t edit your tweets to correct spelling mistakes/typos.

100?

Is it going to be me on the 100 spot?

Great job, Pat. Unfortunately I’ll have to wait to get back to Hawai‘i to try. No NZ number yet.

I’d like an invite because I’ve almost managed to kill myself several times while texting to Twitter and driving.

c’mon, #100!!!!!!!!!

I’ was one of the silly people queuing up to try to be #100…I highly doubt i’ll get it. But, can’t wait to try this out.

No luck getting the 100th comment here to get me the Twitterfone invite to make my 1000th tweet. So which is 100 (seems the trackbacks count as comments in the counter at the top)

awwww man…………should have been luckier.

http://www.quobile.com

Is it possible to be the 100th one ;p .. if so I’ll try the national lottery too this week end!

ACH, missed it, sh*te (by at least 7 - ironically my lucky number )

Our webapplication is for providing information to the public during disasters. What better way to update your website then by talking to it?

I want to put the RSS feed from my twitter account on my website so I can demo the technology.

Because Duncan Riley would want me to have it.

W A Y 2 LATE for the contest,
however, it’d be interesting to see if the service translated laughing as (LOL) || (Coughing) … Now if they encorporated geocoding _That’d_ be /really/ cool!

not speech to text but streaming audio, i’d go with Utterz http://www.utterz.com/

Im not begging for one. Plus I’m canadian.
So I guess I’m shit out of luck. Give one to your pool boy 1938media.com
jp

My first audio tweet is pretty clear and UK operator works quite well.
Just blogged about this here: http://tinyurl.com/6cs4bj,
and the audio tweet you can hear @URL: http://www.twitterfone.com/l/5ijy8esw8jdj

10 years ago I worked for a startup that did the exact same service in the exact same way, only it was voice-to-email. Does. Not. Scale.

Just tried it out, it works really well. This will be very handy for when I’m driving, no longer have to rush my text messages while stuck at traffic lights. I love the website design too.

Yes, it will work very well as long as the company can afford to hire enough humans to do OCR corrections on the messages.

At first touch, Twitterfone fills a sweet spot in my education technology space, especially for dyslexic students who are grappling with typing responses to online questions.

I am Twitter’s bitch. I admit this with glee.

So I can test how well they could transcribe strine English?

@115

Because I’m not referencing a startup that couldn’t scale during the same year Google was founded and I understand technology has evolved since.

I vote for Amybeth, #40! Even if Arrington isn’t a “by-the-numbers” kinda guy, he was trained as an attorney and they tend to have a fondness for organization and numbered lists. I know I do.

As for Twittering, I use Jott.com and have been very pleased with its flexibility and accuracy.

I don’t twitter from a cell phone cause I am working overseas the past year and a half in Brazil, and SMS to the US is way too expensive on TIM (Brazil cell phone). I have Vonage line at home (and of course skype out), which would make TwitterFone a very intriguing service for me, would like to try it!

Why send me an invite? I. Just. Need. One.

Because I love techcrunch and twitter

right on time !!

Thanks Dani! I shamelessly vote for me too.

I’ve tried out Jott in the past as well and liked it, but I’d certainly like to compare!

So, when are you making your selections, Mr. Arrington?

Since when did typing 20 character messages become cumbersome?

It’s just too dangerous to post great ideas that come to you while driving or walking around. Also, I hate having to pull out my old man reading glasses to compose a message on my cell phone.

Ok, back to business… I wanna know Josh Koppelman’s thoughts on
1) what he thinks of twitter and how it will get monetized
2) how twitter 1.0 gets adopted by middle america
3) what a killer 800 free 411-ified twitter blends Half.com into a next new simple simple killer text tool

AND questions for the TechCrunch community
1- how do I text message from an 800 number
2- how do I text message from a 10 digit US landline

Hi
I believe this is the right tool for me because…..
It’s hard to type all those messages in
Fingers don’t work like they should
I can show my grandkids my new tool
I can be known as the new tech granny.

Meg McNeal

Hola muy bueno me parece una idea genial

Well, I’m sure they are all given away by now, but can’t hurt to still ask.

I don’t have anything special to say, I’d just like one.

OK, yes, I’d use it like a mad man to drive my twits and tweets trough the roof! Let’s see how much twitter can really handle when people are leaving voice conver