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.
Dictation into a recorder to a blog post in English
Dictation into a recorder to a blog post 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.
Upload the Dictation into a recorder and ask for the blog post. The speech is in English, the engine keeps the time of every line, and one file may be up to 30 minutes. The free plan gives 3 files a day.
How to get the file and turn it into a blog post
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Record the dictation
The source of the recording is chosen in the Audio Setup Toolbar, the level is set with the input slider of the Recording Meter, and the recording starts in a new track
- 2
Hand the file over
The Dictation into a recorder goes to the service through the upload widget; the speech is English, and the blog post comes back into the chat.
- 3
Ask for the blog post
The ready instruction reads the transcript of the Dictation into a recorder as the author of the post, and the blog post comes in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft.
- 4
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 blog post 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
What the recording does not give you
The Dictation into a recorder holds the voices and the order of the words. 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. From that text comes the blog post, in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft.
Tips
Read the sections of the blog post before you send it on.
Set the language of the Dictation into a recorder before you send the file.
Rename the file of the Dictation into a recorder before you send it.
Questions about Dictation into a recorder and a blog post
Which problems can come with 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 does not change the file of the Dictation into a recorder; it reads it as it is and writes the blog post.
What does the Dictation keep for 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 file of the Dictation into a recorder is the input of the engine, and the blog post is written from it.
What comes back after the English Dictation into a recorder is read?
the blog post in the sections Headline and lead, Outline, Draft, with the time of every line of the recording of the Dictation into a recorder.
How long may the file be, and how much is free?
One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, and the free plan gives 3 files a day for the blog post.
Where does the file of the Dictation into a recorder wait?
On the Dictation. The facts of the table above name the place where the file of the Dictation into a recorder is kept and the way it comes off.
Related pages
The same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
Video to a blog postThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
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
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.