There is just one word appropriate to describe Jott: Awesome. Jott is a free mobile hands-free note taking and message service designed to simplify messaging large groups of people or taking notes while you're on the go.

With Jott all you have to do to send a message to a group or even post message to your blog is dial an 800 number. Once connected you are prompted by an automated system to say "Who do you want to Jott?." You name yourself, your blog, a contact, or group and then leave a short voice message with your message. The automated system tells you it "Got it" and then you are free to hang up. Your message is sent immediately to the recipient(s) in text form via email and/or text message with a link available to listen to the audio file if the text somehow gets confused in the translation.

You can import contacts from Outlook, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, and Plaxo accounts directly into Jott making it easy to use the service to email literally anyone. The site uses examples such as being stuck in traffic and emailing your team at work to let them know you'll be late, or posting a blog about a great restaurant you just visited and then emailing your readers to alert them to the new entry.

Signing up with Jott involves picking a username and verifying your email address and phone number. The whole process takes about 5 minutes and ends with you sending your first Jott to yourself. We tried it out with several complex phrases and different email addresses and found the voice recognition software to be spot on with its text version of our voice messages.

One drawback to the service is that you are limited to 30 seconds per message which in cases like blog posts can be pretty limiting but for a service in public beta it is pretty functional and pretty fantastic.

[Via EmilyChang]