Have audio transcription separated out by person, and properly formatted
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Zack Baddorf
Right now the audio transcription text that comes back is a mess. It's hard to know who said what and I don't derive any value from the blurb but I keep it in case I need to go back to reference it.
So, I recommend developing the transcription AI so that it can recognize voices and separate out Person 1 vs Person 2 vs Person 3.
Then, I recommend having it formatted to something like:
Person 1: blah
Person 2: blah
Person 1: blah
Person 3: blah
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alex appelbe
In addition to this request, and as probably much lower-hanging-fruit, there are other voice transcription elements that could be really useful.
- Visual notification that indicates that my voice note is being processed ok (before the text shows up). I get scared that the voice note has dissappeared and that the thought will be lost, until i see it show up as text eventually.
- Timestamp of when the voice memo was recorded. If i recoed multiple voice notes in a day on Reflect, it would be great for them to be labelled in my Reflect timeline based on time.
- On mobile, when i want to process the voice transcript with Reflect AI, i think i have to highlight all the text i want to process. This is painful. It would be amazing if i could just click a checkbox on the voice memo(s) which i want to process with AI, and then all the text in that voice tranzcription segment woiuld be automatically highlighted,
To give a bit more context, in case helpful, I'm an alpha tester of Cleft Notes and MacWhisper, which are both fantastic voice transcription tools which i use every day.
- MacWhisper for transcribing meetings and longer notes, and processing them with LLM prompts (eg. summarising, extracting statistics etc).
- Cleft I use for transcribing and summarising personal voice notes and it's amazing for this (It's not designed for long-form, multi-person meetings).
I see
Reflect audio transcription
as being more akin to Cleft, than MacWhisper (for now). What i mean by that is that i find Reflect really great for taking personal voice memo's, on the go. And then processing them with the Reflect AI prompts to tidy them up, when i get a few minutes to spare.Even if Reflect audio was amazing I would still see myself using Cleft, and MacWhisper AS WELL, as i think each of them serves different purposes (for now) and i think voice memo based workflows are the future! (and we don't need Humane Pin or Rabbit to enable this future)
Alex MacCaw
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This is called 'diarization' and we plan to make it.
Mike Brevoort
Alex MacCaw this would be so great in combination with the AI integration.
Here's a janky workflow that I use multiple times per week:
- Record an important meeting using Quicktime + Blackhole
- Use a little python script to pass audio to Deepgram to transcript with diarization
- Open in VS Code, select each speaker and replace all "Speaker x" with real names
- Upload to Claude and ask very specific questions about the conversation, not just summarization but for specific details, coaching in certain situations, etc.
- I take some of the output of that and save it in Reflect under the meeting.
If you could make that workflow seamless in Reflect, I would love you even more :)
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Sergio
Even with this you’d need to sit there and work out who person 1 and person 2 is. Really you need the full integration int whatever video conferencing you’re using and that’s very unlikely to happen.
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Ma San
I have a template that formats the audio transcript after it's been processed, but that's indeed suboptimal. It would be prefable if we can use our own transcription script
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Barbara
An easy first step is to use Zapier to import the meeting summaries + associated hyperlinks to the recorded meetings. This is provided by services like Fathom.video, Otter.ai, or Zoom. Fathom has performed the best for me so far.
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Mark
Since Zoom does meeting AI summaries now, a good first step for this one would be to integrate with the Zoom AI meeting summaries.
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Don Ho
If you're looking for companies that are doing meeting summaries the right way - by far the best, most comprehensive summaries are by Bloks (www.bloks.app). Too bad I hate their UI and their notetaking capabilities are trash compared to Reflect.
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Alex Libre
Don Ho: oh very cool. I currently use Krisp.ai and then just paste the transcript summaries into Reflect, but I'm gonna give Bloks a try.