You can now add an action to record audio and get instant text transcriptions.
Record and Transcribe Voice can be a useful addition to apps for field inspections, incident reports, customer interviews, or documenting operational procedures on the go.
It can be added to any Component that supports Actions (e.g., a Button component) or added to a workflow in the Workflow Editor.
Reminder: This feature is in preview mode. To enable it, you must turn it on in the Previews menu on your team settings.
Give it a try and drop your suggestions in this thread. Thanks!
Thanks… really nice addition. I have already added it to my main app. I like very much the idea of an on-submit action, which can be used for many things, e.g. using AI to generate some text.
Perhaps the pop-up window might benefit from extra formating options, much like you can format a pop-up form.
I have the same issue. On a computer, it works perfectly. However, on the PWA on a mobile phone, there’s an error message at the end of the audio recording.
I know it’s in preview at the moment so we can expect some potential issues to look at, will continue trying to eliminate all the usual fixes. But in meantime still get this error
This new feature looks amazing! I’ve been really excited to try it out. Do you happen to know how long a single audio recording can be? I’d love to use it for my 50-minute classes. Also, does it work only online, or is there any offline functionality? Thanks in advance!
The record & transcribe component is very nice. A comment about the user interface of the component, which ads a button to the screen:
The current settings of the record-and-transcribe button are not intuitive. I’m referring to “start”, “center” and “end” which are probably meant to be “left”, “center” and “right”.
It would be nice if the record-and-transcribe button had the same style settings as the button component.
If you are able to draw conclusions as to the maximum length of a recording (audio) or the maximum length of a transcription (number of characters in a cell in a Glide Table), I would be interested in your findings. Don’t hesitate to share them here
Bob, do you remember what the maximum number of character in a cell of a Glide Table might be? I believe I recall a thread with David and Jeff from a long time ago commenting on this (I could be remembering wrong) and the conclusion what “Millions of characters” or “No limit”, but I wonder. I imagine there must be some sort of hard limit. Would a 10, 20 or 50-minute recording reach that limit?
(Admittedly I could probably test it by copy-pasting long texts in a cell and see when or if it breaks. That test would be valid in my environment though.)
These ranges account for variations in speaking speed, word length, and language-specific characteristics. Different languages have different average word lengths and speaking rates, affecting the total recording time that would generate 1 million characters.
I am wondering, can we have a column where the link to the voice note can be stored. Just like the Audio Recorder component where we can listen to the audio recording later. Can we also have a link for the recorded audio?
I think this could be nice, but only as an optional checkbox in the settings of the component. Currently I quite like that the component doesn’t count a generated audio file against the storage quota of the plan.
I have no idea how real-time transcription works, but it might be possible than no audio file is generated in the process of creating the transcription.
I’ve been really excited to try it out. Do you happen to know how long a single audio recording can be? I’d love to use it for my 50-minute classes. Also, does it work only online, or is there any offline functionality? Thanks in advance!
