Recording audio well before anything gets transcribed: devices, apps, settings, and the mistakes that cost you a file.
Voice notes stack up when the room is wrong, not because you dislike them. Here is how to clear the queue from the computer you are already sitting at.
Clients who send briefs and addresses as voice messages leave you with a record you cannot search, quote or forward, which is exactly when you need one.
A voice note in a language you only half follow takes two steps to understand, and only one of them is likely to go wrong. Here is how to do both yourself.
Before you transcribe a recorded call, settle whether the recording was lawful — then deal with narrowband audio, mixed channels, and the numbers you will have to check.
Asking the clinician first is what makes recording a consultation work; here is how to ask, where to put the phone, and what to do with the audio afterward.
A plain guide to getting WhatsApp voice messages off your old phone before setup finishes the window for doing it properly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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