AI Note-takers

[hondo]

Has anyone else purchased or tried these? I'm using the Plaud Note (one step below the Plaud Pro) and not going over the 300 free minutes allowed per month. The transcript pops onto the App automatically within 2-3 minutes and looks clean and so far has transcribed everything accurately. If I want to print out a transcript, I email it to myself from the App. You can also choose to hear the conversation audibly over the App.

So far I'm loving it because I've always despised transcribing.

 

[TigerVols]

I’m familiar with Plaud but until recently I used meetgeek. Now I use Fathom. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Anything has to be better than Otter.

 

[Severian]

I hate going into a meeting with a group, only to be met with 20 windows, half of which are AI note takers recording everything we're discussing and passing the data through a third-party's servers. Terrible operational security.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I've been taking the files from my digital recorder and feeding them into the transcribe feature on MS word. Works better than I anticipated, even with foreign accents.

 

[SFIND]

I've been taking the files from my digital recorder and feeding them into the transcribe feature on MS word. Works better than I anticipated, even with foreign accents.

I will have to try this.

I've been using Otter for years now. It has worked pretty well, but it does come up with some weird stuff at times, and continues to struggle with sports jargon.

 

[MNgremlin]

iPhone Voice Memos app gives you transcripts. Is it 100% accurate? No. But a good journalist should be checking the accuracy of their notes regardless of if it was hand-written/typed or transcribed by AI.

I have also used Turboscribe with relative success.

 

[Severian]

Be like the old heads and learn shorthand.

 

[PaperDoll]

iPhone Voice Memos app gives you transcripts. Is it 100% accurate? No. But a good journalist should be checking the accuracy of their notes regardless of if it was hand-written/typed or transcribed by AI.

I have also used Turboscribe with relative success.

I'd only used Otter a handful of times before my employer banned it (due to privacy concerns) and didn't find it particularly effective, particularly with accents. The iPhone recording isn't much more accurate. Neither can effectively handle the typical sports media scrum with people talking over each other and using jargon.

It's a tool, and sometimes what I've read vs. what I hear on the recording makes me feel like a tool for even looking at the transcript.

 

[hondo]

I'd only used Otter a handful of times before my employer banned it (due to privacy concerns) and didn't find it particularly effective, particularly with accents. The iPhone recording isn't much more accurate. Neither can effectively handle the typical sports media scrum with people talking over each other and using jargon.

It's a tool, and sometimes what I've read vs. what I hear on the recording makes me feel like a tool for even looking at the transcript.

The worse an interview subject articulates, the worse Otter gets. Also, it doesn't do well with fast talkers. I didn't have Otter when I covered Jimbo Fisher but the transcript would have been interesting.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Be like the old heads and learn shorthand.

I had great shorthand when I started. Then I started using a recorder. My shorthand went straight to ****.

 

[Severian]

I had great shorthand when I started. Then I started using a recorder. My shorthand went straight to ****.

If you don't use it, you lose it.