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So I am a big fat of tools that can help me speed up my workflow and become more productive
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And on the channel, I have shared a lot of tools already. There are some amazing tools that have covered on this channel
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You can check them out. But today, I am sharing a tool that can help you speed up your writing process
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You can actually write stuff faster than you can type. The good thing is that this tool works on both computers and your mobile phones
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And it is actually super cool to use it on your mobile phone and be more productive
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By writing faster, then you can type on those times. virtual screens on your smartphones. The tool that I am talking about in this video is called
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audio Skype. It is recently launched and it is actually from the developers of the Chrome
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extension called voice in. I have been a fan of voice in Chrome extension because it gives you the
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real-time transcription. You can use it for voice typing. You get the same exact output from the
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voice in just like what you get in Google talks voice typing because the voice in Chrome extension
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uses Google's speech to text API. But since the voice in Chrome extension's transcription is in real-time
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it is not that accurate you have to go through the entire output to make changes and fix the
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grammars and wrongly transcribed words but this new tool audio scribe from the same developers
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is powered by AI so it is much better in transcription and it even summarizes gives you a formatted
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text i'm assuming they are using open AI's model called whisper which is a superb large language
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model that transcribes audio's near perfectly so i'm assuming they are using whisper AI for
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transcription and then chart gpt for formatting that transcription into making it
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beautiful by removing the filler words and repetitive words you can be as natural as
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you want to be while talking into the microphone and this will make sure that
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you get a perfect output from your audio so let's check the tool out it is
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available on dicta note.co and if you are accessing the website for the first
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time you will have to sign up you can use your Google credentials or Facebook
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credentials or you can continue with your email I will use Google because this is my preference You can choose whichever you want So once you are logged into the Dictor note account you get this audio scribe button on the left sidebar You can click on it And something like this opens So this is a microphone icon below that There is an option of settings where there are two settings available There are two options in the free versions and the other options are in the pro version only So we talk about that in a moment Let first pick the language
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It is selected as auto detect. It will automatically detect what language we are speaking and the
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output language we can select whichever we want. We can either talk in one language and want our
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output in other language. So I will talk into the microphone in English and will keep my output in
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English as well. So these are the settings and then there is an upload button. Obviously you can
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upload anything that you have recorded earlier. So you if you have got meeting notes, you can
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use this tool to transcribe those meeting notes. But keep in mind, the free version will only let
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you transcribe three minutes of audio files. Now let me click on this microphone icon and it will start
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recording. If you're doing it for the first time, the browser will ask you for the permissions to use the
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microphone I've already given it the permissions here are the permissions but if the permissions are not given and then let me reload this page and go to audio scribe
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and if I tap here it will ask me to give the permissions let me reset the
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permissions okay so the permissions are reset I'll reload now if I click on
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audio scribe and I tap here since the permissions were reset you can see that
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it is asking me for permission to use the microphone I will see going to allow and now I can talk into the
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whatever I want to and you can see there is a timer running which is of three
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minutes which is the free version so whatever I talk into the microphone
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whatever I talk into the microphone even twice probably it will fix that and
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give me a perfect transcription which can be used directly anywhere maybe on
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social media maybe in a blog post or anything its job is to give you a
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perfect transcription of whatever you speak into the microphone so I think
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for a lot of people, three minutes would be quite sufficient if you are posting on social
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media or if you are writing something, you can do it multiple times to avoid that free limit
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of three minutes. But if you want to lift that limit, you can get the pro version, which will
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lift that limit to 15 minutes. You will be able to talk into the microphone for 15 minutes
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or you can use the upload button to upload an audio file which is 15 minutes longer once at a time So I have stopped it It saying rewriting but it is actually uploading and sending my audio
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to its servers where it will be transcribed and then it will go through another process of formatting
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it using the AI and we have our transcription here. So it says that you can speak into the
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microphone as much as you want even repeating yourself and the tool will provide a perfect
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transcription and that can be used on social media blogs anywhere else. For most users, three minutes
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should be suffice so it has formatted I haven't used these words but it understood the context
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and gave me a crisp and clear version of whatever I spoke into the microphone so I can either
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directly use this or I can click on this original transcription where I will have the original
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transcription and I can make edits to it this original transcription is also quite nice
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comparatively to the other speech to text tools so you can either use this and then make changes
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yourself or you can directly use this on whatever platform you intend to so this is audio scribe
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which can be accessed on smartphones as well. Now, talking about the pro version, there is an upgrade button
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which will tell you about the Audio Scribe Pro version. So the yearly plan is 50% off
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which makes the monthly subscription at $4 per month. But if you go monthly, there will be no 50% off
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and you will have to pay $8 every month. And these are the limits that are lifted
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The three-minute limit is lifted. You get to upload 15 minutes off video
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or you can speak into the microphone for 15 minutes. There are other versions also available which you can check out here
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If I go back and click on settings, these are the options which you get in the pro version
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Special words, writing style, output length, quick selection, just transcribe and apply voice commands
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So just transcribe will not add any extra word or format it differently than whatever you are talking to the microphone
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So these options are really nice. And looking at the settings, it is quite similar to a tool that I
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covered in one of my videos previously. Yes, it's audio pen. The audio pen has been around for quite some time
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I think for more than six months. And I was amazed that there was no other tool like that
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And I was literally expecting these guys, the guys behind dicta note and voice in Chrome extension
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to come up with something like that. I was expecting that they will be integrating this into the voice in Chrome extension So it will be easier to use but maybe in future they will do it but for now it is a web app that can be opened on any platform so it has got its own limitations
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like free version has only three minutes of transcription sometimes you are intending to write something and it gives you a completely different output and for
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those times I only use the original transcription because it is way easier for
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me to make edits to the original transcription then using the formatted
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output given by this AI tool so you don't have have much control there are some limitations and that is why I created my own iPhone
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shortcut if you have got an iPhone you can use that iPhone shortcut I have named it
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Dictation Pro and it lifts the limitation which audio pen and this audio scribe tool has
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there is no three-minute limitation you can talk into the microphone for up to 30 minutes which is quite sufficient and it will work natively on your iPhone
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because there is no web app to open obviously you will require an internet connection but you can also keep your phone locked the screen can be turned off and you can still
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talking to the microphone it will not stop for audio pen and audio scribe the moment you lock your
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iPhone the audio recorder will turn off so these limitations are not in the dictation pro
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if you have got an iPhone or maybe even a mac computer you can try the dictation pro
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the only thing you require to use my dictation pro iPhone shortcut is open a i's API key
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which is not free but you will be charged on the basis of how much you are using it so here is
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the screenshot from the open aIs API pricing page which you can see it's very nominal if you
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we have to calculate the per minute usage it will be this much amount which is written over
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here I think it is better to pay for what you are using and not getting another
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subscription on top of a lot of subscriptions that are everywhere I mean it's so
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difficult to track subscriptions and there's one more subscription even though it is a useful tool I don't want more subscriptions that's why I created this plugin for myself
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you can download it for yourself it just costs one dollar and that's for one time
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and after that you can use it for the lifetime so the link of the Dictation Pro and this tool
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also will be in the description of this video you will also find a link to the detailed article
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about this tool and the dictation pro iPhone shortcut in the description so that's it in this video
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i hope you find this useful if you did you can hit the like button subscribe for more videos like
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this and i'll see in the next one till then take care