More AI toys
I recorded a meeting on my phone between three people. I needed a transcript. There are several online services, but I tried a couple and wasn’t at all happy.
The the robot suggested I download an app called Vibe, powered by OpenAI’s Whisper. It lives locally on your computer. You feed the audio into it and a transcript comes out the other end (after a time, naturally).
It did a fantastic job. It didn’t label the three participants, which was a pity, but the text was clean and nearly perfect (a few proper names off and some rather bizarre repetition of one-liners).
Uncle B is off sobbing in the corner. So much of his career was spent doing interviews – and then, o god, transcribing them by hand.
June 8, 2026 — 7:17 pm
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