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by kixiQu 1065 days ago
Every platform ought to transcribe the voice notes. Even a bad transcription can be adequate when you can fall back to listen to the audio. Allo did this and it was great. I wrote a [bot] to do it for Matrix using GCP transcription.

[bot]: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/08/05/matrix-bot-transcrib...

People communicate differently in voice notes than in typed messages, so I like having tech that can accommodate both.