Creating minutes from a recorded meeting

Sigurd · Tuesday at 8:09 AM

I have just been at a 2 hour B&W meeting and am experimenting on how to create minutes from the audio recoding.
The recording was done using my phone. I have transferred the resulting mp3 file to my PC. Next stage is to find an app to convert the audio recoding to a text file. Two or three ways to investigate - ideally would be an app that "listens" to the audio recording then outputs a text file. Alternatively I could play the audio over the |PC speakers and have Word dictate function create the text document. Final stage would be to use AI, whichever one does the best job to edit the text to something approaching minutes. Some human editing before and after will probably be needed.

Has anyone tried this and how did you do it. Has anyone any suggestions better than my thoughts (bound to be!).

Edwin · Tuesday at 8:51 AM

You could try Vovsoft 'Speech To Text'...,
however, unless the audio is immaculately clear and concise, it may end up a huge mess.
(Not sure of a time limit on the free version!)

Sigurd · Wednesday at 8:08 AM

Thanks Edwin. Tried it but as you said, result was a compete mess. A lot seemed pure invention!
I wasn't that hopeful that it would work as meeting was recorded using my phone. Quality good enough for human intelligence but not AI.
Minutes secretary will be disappointed!

badrobot · Wednesday at 9:44 AM

Usually, when you say "minutes', it will be like a bulleted summary of the meeting. What you are trying to do is to make a transcript of the recorded meeting so you might wanna look at transcript generator.

Sigurd · Wednesday at 9:59 AM

We may have different terminology between Canada and the UK, or different business approaches!
Minutes to me, for each agenda item, is a brief summary of the discussion, the decision and the action. It could be listed as bullet points though usually (to me) each item is numbered according to number on agenda. . A transcript would be a written version of everything said at the meeting.
I am looking to create minutes.
The first stage would be to convert, as you suggest, the sound recording to a transcript, the second to see if AI is up to creating the minutes. At present I have fallen at he first stage - the quality of the recording is not good enough for an app to convert to a transcript!

badrobot · Wednesday at 11:18 AM

Sigurd said:
We may have different terminology between Canada and the UK, or different business approaches!
Minutes to me, for each agenda item, is a brief summary of the discussion, the decision and the action. It could be listed as bullet points though usually (to me) each item is numbered according to number on agenda. . A transcript would be a written version of everything said at the meeting.
I am looking to create minutes.
The first stage would be to convert, as you suggest, the sound recording to a transcript, the second to see if AI is up to creating the minutes. At present I have fallen at he first stage - the quality of the recording is not good enough for an app to convert to a transcript!

At least you have it recorded. You just need to listen or watch it again and manually create the minutes. It's not all a failure. I guess there's no other option since you mentioned the audio quality isn't good enough for AI to work with.

trevo · Wednesday at 2:18 PM

Sigurd said:
I wasn't that hopeful that it would work as meeting was recorded using my phone.

What sort of phone did you use?

Sigurd · Wednesday at 2:25 PM

A recently bought one - Samsung S24 - so can't blame that. The issue is the volume of different voices, male and female, sat around a table. So it is more of a microphone issue.

trevo · Wednesday at 3:08 PM

Sigurd said:
A recently bought one - Samsung S24 - so can't blame that. The issue is the volume of different voices, male and female, sat around a table. So it is more of a microphone issue.

Did you use a voice recorder app ? I use the Google Recorder app for meetings and it transcribes very well.
I don't know if Samsung has something similar.

Sigurd · Wednesday at 4:09 PM

It was a Samsung app. Do you use an external microphone with the Goole app?

trevo · Wednesday at 4:49 PM

No, just the phone microphone.

Before Google brought out their app, I used to use another, Sound Recorder Plus, also does Speech-to-Text .

Sound Recorder Plus: Voice Rec - Apps on Google Play

Easy voice recording app. Record voice memos & audio on a dictaphone.

play.google.com

Sigurd · Wednesday at 5:39 PM

I'll see if I can install that tomorrow - it's bed-time here! Thanks for the suggestions.

Sigurd · 2025-02-21T06:01:22-0500

I think I will need to improve the recording quality and also for some better meeting discipline!
Anyway - thanks for the help. Useful recording apps in general.

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