If you are anything like me, you spend a large amount of time on the phone – whether it is for conference calls, interviews, sales calls, real estate deals, utility issues and so much more. While the phone keeps us connected during our everyday lives, it does not help us remember the details of those important conversations after we hang up. The old school way to remember those details was to take notes. But you have to be a pretty good note taker to get everything important that was said and you have the potential to miss out on parts of the conversation when you are busy scribbling on your notepad. And forget if you are driving…two hands on the wheel at all times. Well, someone has figured out how to take the notes for you.

There is a new service called Cogi that acts as a virtual assistant for your calls and in-person meetings. Cogi can be used for  landline or mobile phone calls to take  audio recordings of your calls as well as text transcriptions of the key parts of the conversation.  During the call, you can choose which parts of the discussion you want to highlight – think of it like using your yellow highlighter – like team tasks, key features of a product, phone bill costs, with the touch of a button on your desktop or mobile phone. After the call,  you can read and listen to all of your conversations online at your Cogi account. Sign-up for Cogi’s service at www.cogi.com, where you will be asked to download a desktop application that will be used during your landline conversations. For mobile calls – you just dial a Cogi number that activates the service. And for privacy issues, Cogi reminds you to communicate that your calls are being recorded first…Service runs at $29.95 a month, with a free 30 day trial when you first sign-up.  And Cogi works for your in-person meetings too…just dial the Cogi number from any phone in the room and your note taking service begins. What a concept!

Hit the jump for more information, as well as the full press release.

INTRODUCING COGI: NEW SERVICE LETS YOU CAPTURE, REVIEW AND SHARE IMPORTANT CALLS AND MEETINGS

New productivity tool acts as a virtual note-taking service – providing accurate, timely and secure audio and text transcripts so users can hear and read the important points from any call or meeting

Works instantly on any U.S. Phone while at home, in the office or on-the-go

Santa Barbara, CA – December 4th, 2008 – Cogi today announced the launch of its new productivity tool, an audio recording and transcription service that lets busy consumers and professionals remember every detail from every conversation whether it’s a phone call or an in-person meeting – without writing a single note. The Cogi service (with a free 30 day trial) is now available at www.cogi.com.

Cogi empowers individuals to focus on their conversations without the distraction of taking notes.  In just a few minutes, users can sign-up and start using the new service that records important phone calls or in-person meetings and transcribes key points as specified by the user.  Using a combination of state-of-the-art signal processing, speech-to-text technology, and human assistance, Cogi is revolutionizing the way people keep track of important commitments and details that occur in their phone calls and meetings, not to mention capturing the nuances of how things were said.

“We heard it loud and clear in our customer research … it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with the avalanche of important details – especially the ones that come from conversations,” says Palmer Jackson, Cogi Chief Marketing Officer. “There is a tension in every conversation between listening well and taking good notes. Prior to Cogi, it’s been nearly impossible to do both at the same time.”

“Simply recording calls just doesn’t cut it, so we built a first-to-market service that lets users quickly hear, read and share what was said during important conversations.  And, Cogi is a great mobile safety tool – letting cell phone users make calls without worrying about taking notes while driving,” Jackson adds.

To start Cogi, users can initiate a call using their desktop software or dial the Cogi Access Number from any landline or mobile phone.  Once activated, users can record full conversations and flag key (“cogent”) parts of the discussion with the push of a button on their computer or phone keypad.  When the call or meeting is over, users access Cogi’s email-like web interface to view and share recordings and transcripts.

Pricing and Availability

The Cogi application is now available for download from www.cogi.com.  The service works on any U.S. phone on any network starting at $29.95 a month.  Cogi offers a 30 day, risk-free trial.

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