Transcribe & Summarize: turn a recording, video or link into notes

Four tabs choose what to transcribe. Talk records from your microphone: press Start recording, press Stop when you are done, and the recording is processed. Upload a file takes MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, WAV and WebM files by drag and drop or by choosing one. Paste a link takes a YouTube or web address. Paste or dictate text takes notes or an email thread you paste, or words you say with the microphone button.

Anything to focus on? is optional: type what to pull out (for example every price that was mentioned) and the summary pays attention to it. The box under it, I have the right to use this, must be ticked before anything starts. If other people are speaking, tick it only when they know it is being recorded or you have their OK; some places require everyone's consent.

The line at the bottom shows how many free recordings you have left this month, the longest recording allowed (30 minutes on a free account), and how long a free account's recordings are kept (90 days). Your recordings lists what you made, newest first; open one to see it again. An unfinished one is marked unfinished.

For a recording or file the steps are: Getting the audio ready (your browser decodes it and cuts it into short pieces at quiet moments), Listening (each piece is transcribed and dropped; the progress bar fills as pieces finish), then Finding who said what and writing the summary. The audio itself is never stored. Stop cancels the run and nothing is counted. If a piece fails it is tried once more, and if the run cannot finish, the use is given back.

For a link or text there are two steps: reading the page, captions or text, then writing the summary. Web pages are summarized, not copied. YouTube works when the video has public captions we can read; we never download the video or its sound. When it cannot, it says so and asks you to upload the file instead. Pages that need a login, or that load their words with scripts, cannot be read.

At the top, All recordings goes back to the list. Download offers the summary or the transcript as Word or PDF, the transcript as plain text, and subtitles as SRT or VTT (recordings with times only). Share a link makes a read-only page with the summary, key points and transcript that anyone with the link can open; Stop sharing turns it off. Delete removes the recording and everything made from it. The title is editable: click it, type, and click away.

Under the title is the length, language, and where it came from. Right after you transcribe a file or recording, a player and a waveform appear: click the waveform to jump to that moment. The small circles under the waveform are chapters; click one to open the transcript at that spot. After you leave, the transcript stays but playback does not, because the audio is not kept.

• Summary: Short, Medium and Detailed buttons change the length; below are Key points, Decisions (only things clearly decided), and Chapters. Copy summary copies the text.
• Transcript: each line has its time (click it to play from there when a player is available) and its speaker. The Speakers panel on top says that speakers were estimated from the words, not the voices; type a name into any speaker box and it changes everywhere. Copy transcript copies the whole thing.
• Action items: the to-dos the AI found, with an owner and a due date only when they were said. Send to Hub adds one to your Hub Inbox; Send all to my Hub adds them all; Copy list copies them as a checklist.
• Reports: choose Meeting minutes, Client brief, Blog post, Follow-up email, or Anything else, add an optional note (the microphone button works here), and press Make it. Each report can be copied or downloaded as Word or PDF, or deleted. Up to 10 reports per recording, with no extra use. If you ask for something the recording does not contain, the report leaves it out and a Not done yet note says what, instead of inventing it.

• Every result has a thumbs up and thumbs down. Thumbs down asks what went wrong and goes straight to the aiKit team.
• The AI can mishear names, numbers and heavy accents, and it can mix up speakers whose lines are alike. Read it before you rely on it. It is not a certified word-for-word record for legal or medical use.
• Free accounts keep a recording for 90 days and then it is deleted; accounts on a paid or custom plan keep recordings until they delete them. Audio is never stored. A shared link stops working when the recording is deleted.
• Free recordings are up to 30 minutes each, and the number of free recordings a month is shown on the start screen. Very large video files need a computer with enough memory to open them in the browser.
• It does not join live Zoom, Meet or Teams calls yet. Record the call, then upload it.