Guides from our tests: how to set up and use AI tools in your language.
One invented conversation written six ways, ready to copy: verbatim, clean verbatim, edited, time-coded, as a research interview and as a video transcript, with what each style keeps, drops and is good for.
How to turn a recording or MP3 into text with Whisper on your own computer, Word, an iPhone or upload sites, and how accurate and fast eight free speech engines were in our test with real audiobook speech.
Consent and audio first, then a style: full verbatim, clean verbatim or edited, shown on one passage. A notation key to copy, realistic time, software, interviews in other languages and the final check.
What meeting minutes are and what to put in them, with our template, a filled-in example, the rules for formal minutes, the words used in German, French and Spanish, and what AI note-takers can draft for you.
A time-coded transcript ties every passage to a moment in the recording. The timestamp styles side by side, how they differ from SMPTE timecode and caption files, and five ways to make one, from free and offline to fully automatic.