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Voice Memos on an Apple Watch to quotes with timestamps in English

Voice Memos on an Apple Watch to quotes with timestamps in English: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.

3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short

What the Apple Watch stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.

How it works

How to get the file and turn it into quotes with timestamps

  1. 1

    Find it in the phone

    In the Voice Memos app of the iPhone, the iPad or the Mac the Watch Recordings item is tapped

  2. 2

    Send the file to the engine

    The widget takes the file of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch as it is and marks the speech as English, so the engine does not have to guess what it is about.

  3. 3

    Ask the task for the list of quotations

    The instruction of the list of quotations is written for this task already: it reads the text of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch and asks for Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes, and it keeps every claim to the transcript.

  4. 4

    Mark the language of the speech

    The recording of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch is in English, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says English and the list of quotations follows.

  5. 5

    Check the file before the upload

    When Stereo or Spatial Audio is selected, Voice Memos records with several microphones of the iPhone and with the right and the left audio channels

The result

What comes back from the engine

  • TXT

    One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.

  • TXT, CSV

    The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.

  • SRT, VTT

    SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.

  • Markdown, DOCX

    The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.

The facts

What Apple Watch keeps, and what it says about it

Where the file is

The recordings of an Apple Watch sync automatically to the iPhone, the iPad and the Mac of the Apple Account they are signed in with.

What the file is

With iCloud the recordings of the watch are played on the paired iPhone and on the other devices of the same Apple Account: in the Voice Memos app the Watch Recordings item is tapped.

What can go wrong

In the Voice Memos app of the iPhone the recording is stopped and the file is reviewed, the name of the recording is changed by tapping it and typing a new name.

What the platform says

The memo of the watch is a recording of the Voice Memos app, the same app that records on the iPhone, so the file is of the Voice Memos of the account.

What the platform says

When Stereo or Spatial Audio is selected, Voice Memos records with several microphones of the iPhone and with the right and the left audio channels.

Length of one file

up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro

Free plan

$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card

Pro plan

$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month

The case

What the recording does not give you

In the Voice Memos app of the iPhone the recording is stopped and the file is reviewed, the name of the recording is changed by tapping it and typing a new name. The English speech of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch is read first, and the list of quotations is what the editor of the interview gets out of the transcript.

Tips

  • The sections of the list of quotations are the same for every recording.

  • The language of the widget is the language of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch.

  • The file of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch stays on your own disk.

  • While the recording is on, the Voice Memos app stops recording if another app starts to play audio on the iPhone.

FAQ

Questions about Voice Memos on an Apple Watch and quotes with timestamps

What does the Apple Watch say about the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch?

The recordings of an Apple Watch sync automatically to the iPhone, the iPad and the Mac of the Apple Account they are signed in with. The engine reads the English speech of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch and writes the list of quotations from that text.

Which problems can come with the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch?

While the recording is on, the Voice Memos app stops recording if another app starts to play audio on the iPhone. The engine does not change the file of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch; it reads it as it is and writes the list of quotations.

How is the list of quotations built from the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch?

The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; every line comes from the transcript of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch.

Is there a limit to the length of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch?

One file of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.

Is a link enough for the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch?

Bring the file of the Voice Memos on an Apple Watch to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the list of quotations with the time of every line.

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