Spent $45 on an AI transcription tool for warehouse meetings and it actually saved me 4 hours this week

I was just tired of typing up safety briefings and shift notes by hand. Bought a sub to Otter.ai on a whim, threw my phone on the table during our morning huddle. It caught everything including the forklift beeping in the background. Took five minutes to clean up the transcript instead of an hour of note-taking. Anybody else found a cheap AI tool that actually pays for itself in time?

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olivia_lopez989d ago

Oh man, I feel this so hard. I once spent a whole Saturday trying to transcribe a voice memo of a brainstorm session and ended up just crying into my coffee. But yeah, I grabbed a $30 a month thing called Fireflies for my weekly team updates, and it caught my coworker whispering "I forgot the snack order" in the background. I had to clean up a few weird bits like where it thought "schedule" was "skedaddle," but it saved me from typing up three hours of notes so I call that a win.

bailey.jennifer9d ago

Wait, skedaddle? That's hilarious but also kind of scary how bad it can get with simple words. I'd be paranoid about what else it's totally butchering in important meetings.

morgan.jason9d ago

Trying to clean up transcripts is just part of the deal with these tools... I usually keep a running list of the weird words mine gets wrong so I can find-and-replace them all at once. It's way faster than typing everything from scratch.

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