You're reading a blog post that I made by using the Otter.AI speech-to-text service. Others have done that before--this time I've got a second brain working to create this post, thanks to David Vargas (above).
I wanted to find out if I could use the Otter app on a Samsung Note 9 with a cracked screen while parked in really poor broadband area. That short test worked like it always had. I made a two minute clip inside Otter and as I drove into 4G connectivity, my spoken audio uploaded to Otter in the background.
When I sat down at my laptop 20 minutes later, I watched the transcript of the audio clip drop into my Roam Research knowledge graph. This elegant connectivity of services will be a big enhancement to my daily notetaking and a major boost to my work with Open Education Resources. As you can hear from one of my Topgold Audio Clips, I want to give props to JavaScript developer David Vargas and to supporters like Jordan Burton and Dave Prout who made this happen.
For John Tierney (one of the five regular people who read my blog), this is Otter, JavaScript, and Roam Research all connecting complementary pieces of technology to provide a unified system for processing. This sort of service would be a valuable part of the toolkit for field researchers. And when integrated to part of a daily review process, these connected services would help ensure that no good ideas will get lost.
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Photo of Bernie Goldbach work place snapped around the last time he was paid to roam around US Zip Code 92495.
[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus in County Tipperary, Ireland.]
