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Garmingo Voice has solved a long-standing problem for me.

I have to access an hour-long or more recording of a meeting that occurs on a daily basis outside of my time zone, and in the past I’ve listened to it with half-an-ear and scrabbled to make notes of anything that will affect me or my team. The same where I’ve been asked to listen to lengthy podcasts or videos.

I’ve tried many locally installed transcription apps and they’ve all been hugely disappointing. The issue has only been resolved by paying $$$ to a service that allows lengthy audio files to be uploaded and transcribed. Garmingo Voice has allowed me to now do this locally on a barely-used and aging Intel Power Mac, and their ‘ultra’ model transcription is comparable to the paid service that we are currently using.

I had a few initial issues during installation, namely I couldn’t install the driver. I raised this with support, who were incredibly helpful, and issued me with a driver file to be loaded via terminal. Then 48 hours later I was notified that there was a new update where this issue had been fixed, and having checked, the in-app installation of the driver now works fine.

I haven’t tried their cloud service as this is what I’ve been attempting to get away from !

There are a few things I’d love to see in future updates:

* The ability to upload a file in the Meetings panel to group by speaker in the transcription.
* .mp4 uploads along with .pdf and .docx outputs.
* Dropbox connectivity.

If you have similar transcription needs then definitely give Garmingo Voice a try. In my use case, this one is a definite keeper.