The preset scenes of the VoiceTracer adjust the audio settings of the recorder depending on what is recorded: notes, audio for speech recognition, interviews, lectures, meetings, music or a custom scene.
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Dictation into a recorder to action items in English
Dictation into a recorder to action items 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 Dictation stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the table of action items in the sections Summary, Decisions, Action items; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into action items
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Keep the file
The recording is exported at once to WAV or AIFF as a safety copy, and the dictation is uploaded to the transcription service
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Send the file to the engine
The engine takes the Dictation into a recorder from the widget of the page; the speech is in English, and the table of action items comes back with the timecodes.
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Ask for the table of action items
The instruction of the table of action items is written for this task already: it reads the text of the Dictation into a recorder and asks for Summary, Decisions, Action items, and it keeps every claim to the transcript.
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Name the language of the speech
The speech of the Dictation into a recorder is English, one of the 99+ languages the engine reads, and the widget is left on English while the table of action items is written.
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Check the file before the upload
Right after the recording it is strongly recommended to export it at once to WAV or AIFF as a safety copy before the editing starts
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.
What Dictation keeps, and what it says about it
The Standard mode of the Voice Recorder of a Galaxy phone captures a balanced sound and is best for the voice memos, and the Interview mode captures the sound directed at the top and at the bottom of the phone.
The recording of Audacity is taken from the sound input of the computer or from a mixer, and the source is chosen in the Audio Setup Toolbar or in the Audio Settings Preferences.
The dictation of the VoiceTracer is written in the MP3 format, and the memory of the recorder holds 2147 h of MP3 at 8 kbps.
Right after the recording it is strongly recommended to export it at once to WAV or AIFF as a safety copy before the editing starts.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
The case
What the recording does not give you
The file of the Dictation into a recorder is what the Dictation keeps. The recording of Audacity is taken from the sound input of the computer or from a mixer, and the source is chosen in the Audio Setup Toolbar or in the Audio Settings Preferences. The engine reads the English speech, and the sections Summary, Decisions, Action items come out of it.
Tips
The instruction of the table of action items is already written.
The engine does not translate the Dictation into a recorder from English.
Check who may download the file of the Dictation into a recorder.
Questions about Dictation into a recorder and action items
What does the Dictation say about the Dictation into a recorder?
The preset scenes of the VoiceTracer adjust the audio settings of the recorder depending on what is recorded: notes, audio for speech recognition, interviews, lectures, meetings, music or a custom scene. The engine reads the English speech of the Dictation into a recorder and writes the table of action items from that text.
Which problems can come with the Dictation into a recorder?
If the recording is interrupted by a drop-out, Audacity inserts zeroes to keep the other parts synchronized and adds a label track called Dropouts. The engine does not change the file of the Dictation into a recorder; it reads it as it is and writes the table of action items.
How is the table of action items built from the Dictation into a recorder?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the table of action items in the sections Summary, Decisions, Action items; every line comes from the transcript of the Dictation into a recorder.
Is there a limit to the length of the Dictation into a recorder?
One file of the Dictation into a recorder may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Dictation into a recorder?
Bring the file of the Dictation into a recorder to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the table of action items with the time of every line.
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Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
Sources
- WPhilips: VoiceTracer audio recorder DVT4110 and DVT4115 (read 2026-10-25)www.dictation.philips.com · checked
- WSamsung Support: Record voice memos with Voice Recorder on your Galaxy phone (read 2026-10-25)www.samsung.com · checked
- MAudacity manual: Recording (read 2026-10-25)manual.audacityteam.org · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps