Dial2Do at CTIA in Las Vegas April 1-3: get things done with your voice

Dial2Do is a free phone service that lets you get things done just by phoning a number and saying what you want done. You can call Dial2Do and say “email” to send an email, “text” to send a text message, “note” to…well you get the idea.

It is being introduced to the US market @ CTIA in Las Vegas. Dial2Do is adding services all the time. Now you can do the following critical tasks hands-free via voice:

Write Notes — Dial2Do will ask you what you want to be reminded about/ note, and then send you an email with the details, so you don’t err, err, what was it again? Oh yeah, forget.
Compose and Send Emails — Dial2Do allows you to “speak” your emails and pick the recipient. Then Dial2Do sends them email with what you said, and a link to the audio so they can hear.
Compose and Send Text Messages — Just like email, except this time Dial2Do sends a text (SMS) message instead.
Twitter — Dial2Do allows you to speak updates to your Twitter feed.
Jaiku — Dial2Do allows you to speak updates to your Jaiku feed.
Jajah — Say ‘Jajah’ and the name of the person/group, then hang up and Dial2Do will connect your call.

For services that require transcription (email, text), Dial2Do uses a combination of both automation and human assistance. The service “learns” from corrections made by human agents, so the more the user uses the service, the better the automation gets. In the future, they will introduce an “automated only” option. Unlike generic voicemail transcription, they have the advantage that the speaker is always identified and is at least aware that their words will be transcribed, both of which increase the effectiveness of the automation.