In my opinion, there are two types of people: those who like WhatsApp audios and those who are right. I don’t like audios, I never liked them and I never will, but the good news is that a new one is now added to the classic option of ignoring them: let the bot listen to them.
The AI can stop the bullet for me, listen to the audio, transcribe it into text and tell me what it is. It is a service that has grown considerably in recent months and will surely continue to grow, much to the delight of those of us who resist listening to audios on WhatsApp. I want this job eliminated by AI.
Listen to me audio and tell me
There are many reasons why I don’t like when they send me audios on WhatsApp, although they boil down to something as simple as that, my cell phone is silent 99% of the time and I don’t want to have to listen in real time (or a little sped up) to what they have to say . Instead, write it to me or, if you don’t want to, dictate it into your cell phone and send it to me as an SMS.
Since no one is paying attention to me, I have had to choose what I have control over to continue without listening to what they write to me. There have always been apps to convert WhatsApp audio to text, but now what they have is robotswhich doesn’t even need to be installed.
There are more and more robots of this type capable of transcribing voice notes into text, such as Cami, Luzia or Alfred the Transcriber, although they tend to be very limited. Leave you try it a bit and then they ask you to pay. I hate WhatsApp audios, yes, but not enough to pay to transcribe them. At least not yet.
This is why my best ally for now is AI transcription bot by Audionotes.ai, with whom you can chat via this link. The bot uses the Audionotes.ai API, the free version of which has reasonable limitations: 30 minutes of transcription per month, 6 minutes maximum per recording. Covers most cases.
The first time you talk to the bot you need to configure the languages and otherwise the process is as simple as send him a voice note and wait for him to transcribe it. Of course, this only works with real voice notes and not with audio files that are not voice notes. The way to differentiate them in WhatsApp is that the voice notes are displayed with a wave preview.
So far this bot saves me from listening to voice notes, which makes fairly accurate transcriptions of what they just sent me. They’re not perfect, and they probably never will be, but they’re more than enough to know what they’re talking about and whether or not I should maybe try listening to them.
In my tests, the Audionotes bot sometimes puts a little imagination into it and creatively fills in the gaps, but the end result remains faithful to the original. In fact, by using AI to “enhance” the message, the transcription sometimes makes more sense as written text than if it were a verbatim transcription.
Out of curiosity, this bot sends you three messages after you send it a voice note: the transcription itself, a summary of it (sometimes very similar to the original), and a list of points about what was said. In addition to listening to the audios, it gives me a summary what they say. You can’t ask for more.
Of course, this also has its drawbacks. In addition to not understanding the audios, sometimes I had to transmit a voice note several times pay attention to me. Given that it’s free, this is a minor issue.
For now it isBest way I found to continue without listening to voice notes, although if I’ve learned anything from other similar bots, it’s that sooner or later they will end up limiting their functions even more for those who don’t check. No problem, I’ll find another one.
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