Otter.ai is my voice notes app of choice.  

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I was put onto this by Benjamin Law on Twitter. It’s the closest I’ve come to a transcription app that can actually make my voice notes useful. Particularly of worth when I dabble in journalism, and write interviews with other creatives. I don’t know if I can rely on it as much as paying a freelancer to handle transcription, but it’s still a promising tool.

I wonder how I’d work if I could use voice more often than I use a keyboard. I can imagine a world where I’d be able to scrawl my work with a pen or a sharpie - as I much prefer - and then read it back into perfect real-time transcription. That’s the dream.

xox Joany 🍕🍕🍕

 
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