Things to sort out this week
Mostly the flat — the boiler, the deposit, and whether to stay another year. Also: book the dentist before it gets worse.
What to do
What the doctor said
Blood pressure is fine. The tiredness is probably the iron — start the tablets, come back in six weeks if it has not lifted.
To do
Nobody chose a language. Nothing was translated.
Anything you say out loud, written down and made sense of — in whatever language you said it in, including when that changes halfway through a sentence.
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Any recording on the phone. A voice memo from last year, a lecture someone sent you, a video.
A talk, a podcast or a lecture becomes notes you can read in a minute instead of an hour.
Anything that runs in two languages comes back as one note — each part written in the language it was actually spoken in, and the whole thing readable in yours. Nobody picks a language first, because nobody knows in advance.
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When you pick it up there is a summary, the things to do that came out of it, and the whole transcript underneath. No setup, no template to choose, nothing to configure.
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Most transcription assumes you picked one language and stuck to it. It is the most common complaint about the apps that already exist, and people make it in the language they were let down in.
“Keine Ausgabe für den deutschen Markt. Texte und Audio sind englisch.”
A German review of a competing app — “No output for the German market. Text and audio are in English.”
Aspenote writes what was said, in the language it was said in, and summarises in that language too. Translation happens when you ask for it and not before — and it follows you when you change language halfway through a sentence.
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Turn on live text and the words appear as you speak. Set it to the language you are speaking and it is live transcription; set it to one you are not and it is live translation. Neither of you picks what anybody is about to say.
Afterwards
“Who owes what, and by when?” Answers come from what was actually said, and it tells you plainly when something was not said rather than inventing it. Paste a link to a talk and it does the same for that.
The free ones are whole recordings — complete summary, complete transcript. Nothing blurred, nothing behind a padlock.
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It goes from your phone straight to the transcription service and is deleted there the moment the transcript exists — including when something fails. We keep a copy of the transcript for seven days so a dropped connection can finish the job, then it deletes itself. There is no account and no advertising SDK, and nothing we measure carries what you said.