Besides the Gemini Nano-powered Summarize on the 8 Pro, the latest Recorder update adds “Transcribe again” to other Pixel devices.
Transcribe again lets you get a transcript in languages that aren’t currently supported by Pixel Recorder’s Live Transcription capability. After launching from the overflow menu of a previous session, select one of the available languages:
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | Kannada (India) |
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | Khmer (Cambodia) |
| Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified, China) | Korean (South Korea) |
| Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional, Taiwan) | Malayalam (India) |
| Czech (Czechia) | Marathi (India) |
| Danish (Denmark) | Portuguese (Brazil) |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | Russian (Russia) |
| English (Australia) | Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) |
| English (India) | Swati (South Africa) |
| English (Singapore) | Southern Sotho (South Africa) |
| English (United Kingdom) | Spanish (Spain) |
| English (United States) | Spanish (United States) |
| Finnish (Finland) | Swedish (Sweden) |
| French (Canada) | Tamil (India) |
| French (France) | Telugu (India) |
| German (Germany) | Setswana (South Africa) |
| Hindi (India) | Turkish (Turkey) |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | Tsonga (South Africa) |
| Indonesian (Indonesia) | Venda (South Africa) |
| Italian (Italy) | Vietnamese (Vietnam) |
| Japanese (Japan) | isiXhosa (South Africa) |
It works by uploading that audio recording to Google’s servers. The company tells us that standard, cloud-based Google speech-to-text is being used here.
This process takes a good minute or two and you’ll see a “Processing” card noting the status of the transcription. In our testing, you can’t use Transcribe again on something that already has a transcript in hopes of improving the quality.
Version 4.2.20231031 of Recorder has widely rolled out.
The previous Recorder update in October added the ability to favorite/star recordings, Audio channel (mono or stereo) selection, and a “Detect language’ capability for Speaker Labels.
More on Pixel Recorder:
- Pixel Recorder’s Gemini Nano-powered ‘Summarize’ requires 1GB download
- Google finds most use Pixel Recorder for short sessions
- Pixel Recorder web app updated with editing capabilities
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