(Originally published on November 14, 2022 by Abhinav Santoshi)
Hi, Insiders! My name is Abhinav Santoshi and I’m a Product Manager on the Office Voice team. I’m excited to share with you the availability of a new Transcribe and Ink experience in OneNote on Windows.
By bringing together Ink and the power of voice transcription to OneNote, we are enabling you to more efficiently capture and then refer to information. Now you can concentrate on delivering a speech, conducting an interview, recording a lecture, taking class notes, or attending a presentation—all while knowing you can listen back and read the transcription afterwards.
With transcription on, you can record the audio you want to capture, leaving you free to annotate content or write notes. When you’re ready to review your transcription, you can press the Play button to play back the ink strokes that were captured along with the audio recording. This new capability makes it easier than ever to take notes, focus on what’s important, and review your content later!
You can transcribe speech in two ways: by recording in OneNote or uploading an audio file to OneNote.
You can capture audio directly in OneNote while taking notes in the canvas, and then transcribe the recording. You'll see the transcript after you click the Save and transcribe now button. The ink strokes you make while recording it will also be captured and replayed.
This is particularly helpful in settings like a classroom where you can record the lecture while also taking notes. Or, during an interview, when you can record your interactions with a candidate and her answers to your questions while also capturing notes.
Here’s how to start:
NOTE: The OneDrive account where your audio is being uploaded will be shown in transcription pane. Currently you can only create one new transcription per page.
You can upload a pre-recorded audio file to transcribe the recording. This is useful when you want to refer to a past lecture or training session and be able to listen to the content again.
NOTE: Transcribe currently supports the .wav, .mp4, .m4a, and .mp3 formats.
Use inking tools available on OneNote to annotate content or take notes. The ink strokes captured during the recording will be played back to you in sync with the audio.
Notice that the relevant transcript section is highlighted as the audio plays. You can also easily jump to a specific moment in your recording by clicking the timestamp or right-clicking ink strokes of any annotation to recall more context.
From the Transcribe pane, you can add the entire transcript, or specific sections of it, to your OneNote document.
This feature doesn’t store your content or audio data. Microsoft only uses your content to provide you with audio results. For more information about experiences that analyze your content, see Connected Experiences in Office.
Please visit the language availability section of Transcribe your recordings in OneNote on the Microsoft support website.
We will be rolling this feature out to Insiders running Version 2211 (Build 15729.20002) or later.
Features are released over some time to ensure things are working smoothly. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as an Insider, have had the opportunity to try it.
We want to hear from you! Please share your feedback about the Transcribe and Ink experience with us right from the app by tapping the Send Feedback button in the top right corner of the OneNote window.
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