Transcription
Turn recordings of meetings, interviews, or speeches into searchable text you can quote, summarize, and reuse.
Transcription converts spoken audio into text. Once you have the text, the recording stops being a black box — you can search it, quote from it, summarize it, and feed it into the rest of Referenta.
What It's Good For
- Committee hearings and parliamentary sessions you couldn't attend live.
- Interviews with stakeholders, partners, or experts.
- Internal meetings where someone needs to come back to "what did we actually decide?"
- Speeches and public events you want to quote from.
- Phone calls (where local rules allow recording).
A Typical Flow
Scenario: you sat in a 90-minute committee hearing this morning and now you need to pull three quotes for a briefing.
- Open Transcription from Tools.
- Upload the recording. Wait for the transcript to come back.
- Move into the next step. This is the important part — transcription is rarely the final task. Most people then:
- Open the Assistant and paste in the transcript. Ask: "summarize the main positions in this hearing" or "find the moments where the minister addressed funding".
- Open Text Processing to clean up filler words if the transcript needs to be quoted directly.
Why It Matters
Once speech becomes text, it joins the rest of your workflow. You can:
- Search it instead of re-listening to find one line.
- Quote it accurately in a briefing or article.
- Summarize it in a fraction of the listening time.
- Compare what one speaker said in two different forums.
Tip: Treat The First Output As A Draft
Automatic transcription is good but not perfect. Names, technical terms, and homophones (their/there) sometimes go wrong. Before you publish a quote, check the original audio at that timestamp. The transcript is a starting point — not a final record.