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TranscriptionJuly 30, 20267 min read

How to Save a Voicemail Before It Disappears

Voicemails live on the carrier's system and get deleted on a schedule, so here's how to save one today on iPhone, Android or an answering machine.

TranscriptionJuly 30, 20267 min read

How to Read a Voice Message When You Can’t Listen to It

A voice note arrives while you're in a meeting or a quiet carriage. Here is how to read it instead of playing it, and what the built-in transcripts get wrong.

TranscriptionJuly 30, 20268 min read

Saving Someone’s Voice: What to Record, and What to Do With What You Have

How to record a parent or grandparent worth listening to twice, and how to store, label and transcribe the recordings you already have so they last.

Note-TakingJuly 30, 20266 min read

A Semester of Lecture Recordings: Turning 60 Hours of Audio Into Notes

A practical, three-week triage plan for a phone full of unopened lecture recordings, and an honest look at what transcription actually solves.

TranscriptionJuly 30, 20268 min read

Hundreds of Voice Messages You Never Played: What to Do With Them

Hundreds of unplayed voice notes pile up because audio cannot be skimmed. Here is the arithmetic behind the backlog, and three honest ways to clear it for good.

TutorialsJuly 30, 20266 min read

How to Get Recordings Off an Old Voice Recorder

A cable is the easy part — the real obstacle in old voice recorders is a proprietary format like DSS or MSV that needs converting before anything else works.

Meeting NotesJuly 30, 20266 min read

You Recorded a Two-Hour Meeting. How Do You Find the Right Minute?

Scrubbing through a two-hour recording by ear is slow for a reason, and three simple things make finding a specific moment fast instead.

TutorialsJuly 30, 20268 min read

Cassettes, VHS and an Old Dictaphone: Sorting a Family Archive

A box of mixed tapes nobody has opened in fifteen years, sorted into what is genuinely at risk, what can wait, and what is cheaper to hand to someone else.

TutorialsJuly 30, 20267 min read

How to Digitize Cassette Tapes at Home: Kit, Cost and Time

A practical walkthrough of turning a box of cassettes into files: the kit, the real-time cost, and what commonly goes wrong.

TranscriptionJuly 19, 202611 min read

How to Transcribe Medical Lectures and Dictation with AI

A workflow for med students and clinicians: turn lectures, rounds, and dictation into searchable text with AI — terminology accuracy included.

TranscriptionJuly 19, 202611 min read

Deposition Transcript: Format, Example, and How to Create One

What a deposition transcript looks like, the formatting rules that matter, a realistic example, and how AI cuts transcription cost and turnaround.

Meeting NotesJuly 19, 202611 min read

How to Take Meeting Notes with AI (Without Typing a Word)

A practical workflow for AI meeting notes: recording, transcription with speaker labels, summaries and action items — plus honest tool comparisons.

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