Guides to voice notes, transcription and privacy.
How to turn WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram voice notes into text, keep them private and find them again.
Voice notes, remembered.
Why a voice note is worth keeping, and how to keep it private, searchable and on the record.
WhatsApp voice notes as evidence: a written record you can hand to a lawyer
How to turn WhatsApp voice notes into a written, dated record for a lawyer or a dispute, with the original audio kept and fingerprinted, without uploading the chat anywhere.
Read the guideChatGPT, Gemini or Grok for voice notes: where your audio goes
ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok can transcribe a WhatsApp voice note from the share sheet. Here is what happens to the audio, and where they stop.
Read the guideHow to search old WhatsApp voice notes
Chat search finds typed words, not spoken ones. Here is how to make every voice note you get searchable by person, privately.
Read the guideVoice notes as a business record: keeping what was agreed
Deals, prices and delivery dates get agreed in WhatsApp voice notes. Here is how to keep a written record of them you can rely on later.
Read the guideA daily digest of your voice notes
Too many voice notes to keep up with? A daily digest gives you the point of each one, and what you were asked to do, on one page.
Read the guideGetting the words out.
Step by step, for WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.
How to transcribe WhatsApp voice notes on Mac and iPhone
Three ways to turn WhatsApp voice notes into text on a Mac or iPhone, and which one keeps the audio on your own device.
Read the guideHow to turn Signal voice notes into text, privately
Signal has no transcription built in. Here is how to turn Signal voice notes into text without breaking the privacy you chose Signal for.
Read the guideIs it safe to transcribe voice notes? What happens to your audio
What actually happens to your audio when you transcribe a voice note, and how to tell a private tool from one that only says it is.
Read the guideWhatsApp's built in transcripts compared with InkSaid
WhatsApp now transcribes voice notes on your phone. Here is what it does well, where it stops, and when a dedicated tool is worth it.
Read the guideHow to turn Telegram voice messages into text
Telegram can transcribe voice messages, but free accounts get only a few and the work happens on Telegram's side. Here is the alternative.
Read the guideVoice notes at work: keep track of what was said and promised
Clients, suppliers and teams increasingly run on voice notes. Here is how to keep track of what was said and promised, without listening twice.
Read the guideWhatsApp chat to PDF tools compared: where does your chat go?
WhatsApp chat to PDF tools compared on the question that matters for private chats: does the conversation, with its voice notes, get uploaded to someone else's servers?
Read the guideHow to transcribe Indonesian voice notes to text
How to turn Indonesian WhatsApp voice notes into text on a Mac, privately, including notes that mix Bahasa Indonesia and English.
Read the guideHow to transcribe iMessage audio messages on your Mac
How to turn iMessage audio messages into text on your Mac, keep them before they expire, and search them later, without uploading the audio anywhere.
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