The productivity app wanted is free output, export and storage of transcribed audio recorded on a digital device. Everything I find is fee based; usually transcription for a fee, where the “free” transcription is a lure to require a user to pay to receive the transcribed output; or the output is viewable on a screen but cannot be exported, saved edited or stored locally.
Google Live Transcribe by Android app is an example of the latter. The voice to alphabetic character transcription is impressive; but I cannot access the output to use it other than to view it on a screen, analogous to “closed captioning” on a TV screen. That does not meet my needs. I investigated half a dozen android apps that are ready available at the Google Play store. All that I looked at employ the “pay to play” business model: the app is free to download and use, but the user must pay to obtain the transcript. I understand the business model; the “free” app is giving access to a service for compensation. I am seeking a free to use solution for limited, free output that I can save locally, edit and store.
I looked at “Notta”, which is the closest to what I want, but the “free” functionality and output is limited. A “Guest” is limited to free use for 120 minutes; more time than that is priced at about $100 per year for a subscriber model; and the usability features available to a “Guest” are substantially curtailed from the productivity that a paying subscriber can purchase.
I subscribe to and pay for many productivity apps (for a Windows 10/Chrome environment) so I am not a hater of paying for all useful software tools, utilities and the like. This inquiry is a shout out to see if there is a satisfactory free end-to-end audio transcription app with transcription/conversion local storage and user editing capability before I sign up and pay for something I have found that is not free.
Tom
