Exploring the podcast feature on Voicenotes AI

I'm pleased to be trying out the podcast feature on the Voicenotes AI app, which I've been using now for a few months. I started out by using Voicenotes as a personal journal. I thought it would be a good thing to record my daily thoughts, things that are happening in my life, and some aspirations that I might have for the future. I hadn't really done this in the past, either as a written diary or in verbal form like today, but it really is a useful tool to track how a person is progressing, both in a mental well-being sense, but also just to note changes in their lives and any thoughts or issues that they might be having.

It's like talking to a friend in a way, because AI can actually give you feedback on things that are happening in your life. A few times I've asked it to summarise how I'm going in terms of adjusting to certain changes that are happening, and it gives me a really balanced overview. If you talk to a friend, they might be judgmental or they might give you opinions, whereas the AI simply states the facts in a way that you can use however you want to or choose not to.

The other good thing I've found about Voicenotes is recording interviews with other people, or meetings, and then getting summaries and action lists, and it's very accurate in doing that. As a former journalist and someone who still works in the communications and media space, I think this is incredibly helpful, transformative in fact. It means that I can concentrate totally on the discussion that I'm having or the meeting that I'm involved in and not need to take written notes, because when you're taking written notes, especially in an interview situation, that can be a little distracting. You're focused on what you're writing down, rather than what you're listening to. You're focused on how you're going to be shaping the article, rather than what your next question should be. Or if you are thinking about the next question, you're not getting the note recorded accurately. This takes all that hassle out of that.

Yes, I know we've had audio recorders now for quite a long time, and I've used them in the past as a journalist, but it's very slow and painstaking to go back and listen to that recording, get the good quotes out of it, and then write up the article. What I've found with Voicenotes is that it gives me the summary, it gives me a full transcription, and the transcription is very accurate. And then I can either use the summary or the transcription to actually write an article about what I've been listening to. Or I can talk into it as I am now, and have it transcribe my own voice and turn that into a written blog post.

It's not often that a piece of technology comes along that you can actually say, this is going to change the way that I work. But I can honestly say that about Voicenotes. And there are other apps similar to this that are out there, but I'll spruik this one, because I've been using it consistently now since January, and I've found it to be incredibly accurate, incredibly innovative, and most importantly, it's very useful.

This feature that I'm publishing today has only been introduced in the last week. It shows that the developers are committed to improving the service and innovating along the way. I'm not sure how I'm going to use this going forward. It might be a little bit random, it might become a personal audio blog, or I might even develop it into a proper podcast where I talk about things that are of interest to me. In the meantime, this is my first test.