
Leave the settings menu and check that Live Transcribe’s main screen says “Ready to transcribe” in the center. Otherwise you will be pasting white text onto a white background. Also unlike Recorder however, Live Transcribe needs an active internet connection to transcribe, you can’t use it offline! If you are planning on pasting the transcription into a context with a white background later on, you should make sure that “Dark Theme” is disabled in Live Transcribe. Unlike Google Recorder which I wrote about in my last article, Live Transcribe works with a vast number of languages, not only English. If it’s a different one, tap on the gear icon and then on “More settings”.

It needs to be the same as the recording you want to have transcribed. Open Live Transcribe and check the input language displayed in the bottom toolbar (if the toolbar isn’t there, just tap on the screen somewhere). If you read this before making such a recording, do include a few seconds of silence before having someone talk in the recording and it’s also important that the recording is of good quality in terms of speech clarity, the reasons will become obvious soon. Let’s say you have recorded some audio like an interview, a meeting, a vox pop, a voice-over for video or even a podcast on your smartphone (look here for some good audio recorder apps) and would like to have a text transcription of it. an internet connection (either mobile data or wifi).
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Android device running at least Android 5.0 Lollipop (if your phone is less than 5 years old, you should be safe!).Have you always been looking for a tool that transcribes your audio recordings but doesn’t require an expensive subscription? Here’s what I like to think is a very useful and simple trick for achieving this on an Android phone. While writing my last blog post about Google Recorder 2.0, I stumbled upon a hack that can also be utilized for another app from Google, one that currently understands over 70 languages, not only English: It’s called “Live Transcribe & Sound Notifications” and is available for pretty much every Android device.
