The canadian government will provide lots of historical data for curious citizens, many of which are recordings of interviews from decades and decades ago. For a book project this allows me to make a hours of audio searchable through a GUI application I have developed that has a voxtral backend.

I find voice memos really annoying, so I’ve been dropping them into a Whisper frontend for a while. Something built into the OS would be nicer though.

Pretty sure iOS is providing this? At least for messages and voicemail.

Yup but on third party apps, where you can download an mp3, there is not always a built-in transcription option

Turning dialogue audio into text for searchability and accessibility (particularly for deaf users)