AI Transcription and Summarization - Apple Notes, Samsung Notes, iFlytek, Plaud, and Soundcore Work

Okay, not too long ago, I did a video on the iFlytech a note. This lovely thing, it was an e, it still is an e- in tablet

that does notet, comes with the pen. You

can buy this case separately. It runs

Android and uses Google Play. It has a built-in notes app. And one of the key features of the notes app is that it does transcription and summaries,

meeting notes, and it's pretty good at what it does for what it is. It's better

than a lot of the other e- in tablets that are out there in terms of its AI capabilities for transcription and summarization. But I mentioned in that

summarization. But I mentioned in that video that I couldn't get past the fact that I'd spent a lot of time with Plaude and I just thought that Plaude was

better at the transcription and meeting summary notes summarization kind of thing. Well, I have the Plaude here and

thing. Well, I have the Plaude here and talk a little bit about it today because in this video I'm going to talk a little bit about AI transcription summarization

as it comes to Soundcore work. I

recently picked up the Soundcore work because there are a lot of AI transcription recording notetaking devices out there and most of them are

like the Plaude. It's in its case. If I

take it out of its case, this is what it looks like. It's a credit card type

looks like. It's a credit card type device. It's got a proprietary charger

device. It's got a proprietary charger on the back. Got a little button you use to connect it to your phone or your tablet or whatever you're using to connect it to the app. And then you hold

it to record. And it's got a little slider if you want to record phone calls or if you want to just record outright.

This is the regular Plaid. There's now,

you know, Plaid Pro that has a little screen on it, which looks really neat and useful because you really don't know the battery level of this Plaid unless you're connected to the app. But I have

really grown to like this. I use it every week in church for sermons.

But now that Soundcore has come out with one, this little small device like this, it kind of reminds me of the note pin

style. You can get the plaude. The

style. You can get the plaude. The

plaude comes in a pin that you can hang around your neck or clip to your clothes. And it's the same thing here

clothes. And it's the same thing here with the sound cord. You got this clip, magnetic little clip here that you can

connect to clothing. It comes with this lanyard cable that you can clip around it and wear it like a little necklace.

That can be handy if you want something that's with you all the time. You want

to wear this, clip it to your clothes or wear it on the lanyard, then it's easier to have with you all the time. I do like this form factor with this charging case. I love that the charging case

case. I love that the charging case charges via USBC.

I hate that the Plot has a proprietary charger.

So, I really wanted to test this out and see how it performs against Plaude, which has been my gold standard for a while in terms of transcription and note summarization. But, I didn't want to

summarization. But, I didn't want to just go there. I wanted to take a little bit further because I talked also in my video about the IFly talk that there are a lot of apps out there that do the same

kind of things. In fact, you may have one built into your phone already. If

you use an Apple device, you've got Apple Notes. If you have a Samsung

Apple Notes. If you have a Samsung device, there's Samsung Notes. Most of

the other brands have their own notes apps now. Lenovo has a notes app. Uh,

apps now. Lenovo has a notes app. Uh,

nothing has a notes app, and nothing has a little recording feature built into their operating system that you can use with a little button on the phone, especially with the latest phones. So,

there are a lot of different options out there. There's apps in the app store for

there. There's apps in the app store for both iOS and Android that do a lot of this. There's Good Notes and all kinds

this. There's Good Notes and all kinds of note-taking apps. How do they really actually perform? So, not only did I

actually perform? So, not only did I want to compare Plaude and Sound Core work, which I think are direct competitors, but I also wanted to see, well, you know, bring in the Fly Tech.

I've got it. Bring in Apple Notes. I

have an iPad. Let's bring in Samsung Notes. I've been using that for years,

Notes. I've been using that for years, but I've never really used it for transcription and summarization. Let's

see how that performs. I tried out Otter.ai, which is one of the apps that you can get in the Google Play Store.

And I just wanted to see how all of these kind of work, how they handle the summarization, how they handle, you know, key points, whatever features of

these different apps and hardware recorders. And that's what this video is

recorders. And that's what this video is really about, showing you what do you really get when you step into one of these platforms. What kind of notes do you get? and I'm putting it through a

you get? and I'm putting it through a very strange kind of test, probably unique to people who care about video editing. I decided to download one

video editing. I decided to download one of Da Vinci Resolve's training videos on editing, editing part one. The video is about an hour and 10 minutes, and I had a whole bunch of devices going,

recording it, transcribing it on the fly.

ling the material directly in there and start putting together this edit. And

from the sort menu in the media pool, just click and make sure that you're organizing these clips by clip name.

This will put them in the order that we're roughly interested in.

In this case, we actually have int 01 and it's called shoot the real world based on the naming convention that we're using for this project. You can

see that as I'm scrubbing backwards and forwards, my live media preview is on so that I can actually see the content of that clip. If my audio scrubbing was

that clip. If my audio scrubbing was also turned on, I would also be able to hear the audio scrub as I move my mouse back and forth. To turn the audio

scrubbing on and off, you can use shift S.

>> I'm going to double click this clip and that will actually open it directly into the source viewer.

Now I can use the scrubber bar here in order to be able to return to the beginning of that clip. And I'm just going to play the clip through just so that we can all listen to the interview.

You could use the space bar or the L key.

>> So in this film making a documentary about how the airplanes changed the world, it was really important to go out and shoot. And it's a unique kind of

and shoot. And it's a unique kind of video because it's different than a meeting where you have different speakers and it's different than even a lecture or a sermon because although you

do have just one speaker, the speaker is actually giving you step-by-step instructions and showing you things that it's difficult to capture in audio when

you're watching a video, right? So, I

want to see how well do these devices perform and how well do the different software packages perform in terms of recording this and will any of them provide me with something that I could

actually use later to refer back to like how did I do that thing? How do I get that menu to pop up? How do I make that thing happen? Can any of them actually

thing happen? Can any of them actually handle something like that? Because

that's kind of an unusual request, I think, of audio transcription and summarization, but we're going to try it out and see what happens. and you're

here for the ride. Thanks for coming along. Here we go.

along. Here we go.

Okay, so we're here in Apple Notes on my iPad Pro. This is an M1 iPad Pro. I

iPad Pro. This is an M1 iPad Pro. I

don't know that it matters, but here we have the transcription. So, we've got the transcription of the of the full audio, which isn't super interesting to

me for the purposes of this conversation, but it is here. So you can you can see that you can go through this and and understand what it thought it

was recording. But then also you've got

was recording. But then also you've got your summary here. And this is the whole summary. So we've got 1 2 3 4 five six

summary. So we've got 1 2 3 4 five six paragraphs. And it really is just

paragraphs. And it really is just summarizing the whole entire video, right? When to organize footage in Da

right? When to organize footage in Da Vinci Resolve. Import the footage.

Vinci Resolve. Import the footage.

Create bins. Use metadata. Smart bins

can be used to filter clips. Process of

editing video involves selecting sound bites from interview clips, inserting B-roll. Source viewer allows for

B-roll. Source viewer allows for detailed waveform analysis, blah blah blah. The timeline in Da Vinci Resolve

blah. The timeline in Da Vinci Resolve 17 offers various zoom options. Full

extent details, custom zoom, allowing for better control, blah blah blah.

Process of editing a documentary about airplanes involves trimming interview clips for sharper start and using the trim edit mode to refine the edit. Audio

levels are adjusted. Music is added.

Additional clips are appended. Further

refined. The video demonstrates various editing functions in Da Vinci Resolve including ripple edits, shuffle inserts, slip edits, speed changes. Also covers

match frame and replace functions for synchronizing clips and finding alternative takes. Additionally, it

alternative takes. Additionally, it shows how to split clips and adjust audio tracks. So that's the entire

audio tracks. So that's the entire summary here of that 1 hour 10-minute video. And you can see this is really

video. And you can see this is really strictly giving you a summary. It is not really going through and creating sections or segments. It's not really outlining the different aspects of the

video. It's just giving you an overall

video. It's just giving you an overall in order view because you start with bring in the footage. Then you go into smart bins and you go into editing um sound bites from the different clips and

then you've got your timeline and your your trimming stops and then the overall conclusion. It is a proper summary.

conclusion. It is a proper summary.

There's nothing I can say about it being inaccurate. It captured everything here

inaccurate. It captured everything here correctly in terms of what the overall process was for the video, but you couldn't really go back to this and do anything with it, right? There's no

particular instructions that it captures here. It could be a good highle like if

here. It could be a good highle like if you wanted to remember, okay, what did part one cover versus part two? Okay,

then this is really good for that. But

if you wanted to refer back to these notes and use them to kind of help you with future edits in terms of, well, what how did he do that? How did he get into the Zoom options? how did he do the trimming. How did he get into that blade

trimming. How did he get into that blade tool? You don't have really have any of

tool? You don't have really have any of that here. It's really just a summary

that here. It's really just a summary that's just meant for identifying what's in this video. And and in that respect, it's a perfectly lovely summary, but as you'll see in some of the other video

summaries that we have, it's not really as detailed or as helpful as some of the others we're going to take a look at.

So, that's what we got here though with Apple Notes. It can do summaries. So,

Apple Notes. It can do summaries. So,

you have this built in. If you already have an iPad or an iPhone, you've got this. You don't have to pay for this.

this. You don't have to pay for this.

It's already here. So, this is all you need. You're good to go.

need. You're good to go.

Now, we're here in the iFly tuck in the AI note. And in this tab, we've got the

AI note. And in this tab, we've got the actual recording. You can see it starts

actual recording. You can see it starts with, "Hi, I'm Chris. I'm an editor in Da Vinci Resolve Master Trainer." So,

we've got the transcription in here. And

that goes on obviously for quite a while, but you can see that it's captured here.

In the next tab though is what we really care about. This is where we have the

care about. This is where we have the meeting minutes that it created from the audio, the transcription summary. We see

we've got the title here, Da Vinci Resolve editing workflow overview. We've

got our basic information with the date.

We've got the Chris who you saw in the transcription. He said he was the Da

transcription. He said he was the Da Vinci Resolve master trainer. We've got

the project which is Age of Airplanes documentary. The client that name I

documentary. The client that name I don't know if you noticed on the iPad. I

think it said it was like Turulligan or Towigate or something like that. The

name was, to be fair, I I couldn't spell it on my own. I'd have to go look that up, too. So, they put in here surname to

up, too. So, they put in here surname to be confirmed, but his first name was Brian. And the purpose we've got for

Brian. And the purpose we've got for editing, media organization, metadata usage, smart bins, and timeline setup in Da Vinci Resolve to assemble a short trailer. So, this is good. You get your

trailer. So, this is good. You get your basic information here at the top. I

like that it gives you date. I like that it gives you presenter and it even tells you the project. I like the way this is laid out. It really outlines what you're

laid out. It really outlines what you're going to get in this video. It is a video about editing using this project for this client and that's really

helpful. So, you got the agenda overview

helpful. So, you got the agenda overview and this kind of gives you an overall outline of what's going to happen in the video. Going to create a new project.

video. Going to create a new project.

Set up storage. Input footage with the bins. Organize audio and video. Apply

bins. Organize audio and video. Apply

and import metadata. Configure automatic

custom smart bins. Batch rename clips using metadata. Create timeline. And

using metadata. Create timeline. And

begin assembly edit. So that's the overview of what's going to happen. And

that's pretty much what went through in the video. Then we see here in key

the video. Then we see here in key decisions and actions, we've got segments. We got project setup. We got

segments. We got project setup. We got

media storage and import. And each of these we we're going to have bullet points. And you're going to see this is

points. And you're going to see this is going to be very similar when you look at other options that we're going to review later in this video. This is a really standard kind of format of

segmenting the content and then putting little points from each segment in bullets. So here we have project setup.

bullets. So here we have project setup.

Created the new project age of airplanes. Accept a prompt to change

airplanes. Accept a prompt to change project frame rate and open the media page. media storage and import. We've

page. media storage and import. We've

got added new storage location. Imported

video and audio folders using add folder and subfolders to media pool. Creating

bins. Now, it is kind of giving you instructions. If you think about what

instructions. If you think about what you need to do to to open up a project, you create a new project. You're naming

it. You're going to change the project frame rate to ratch whatever the video is. It is kind of going through step by

is. It is kind of going through step by step here and telling you what you need to do after media storage and import.

We've got audio organization with the bins, music, music for trailer VO for voice over. It tells you create bin with selected clips for two

voiceover clips. And the sound effects

voiceover clips. And the sound effects it says are already grouped. We've got

video organization with keywords. So you

got they previewed the clips, disabled the audio scrubbing. I like here that it gives you a specific command key combination shift s that's really useful tag three interview clips with keyword

interview so it's telling you here here what keyword to use tag credits clip with keyword credits so again you're getting specific information observed autogenerated keyword smart bins that

comes from that with metadata important usage we've got open the inspector and the file tab for editable metadata fields so it's telling you to go to the inspector and go to the file tab so you can edit the metadata fields that's

really helpful imported the logging um from the CSV and gives you the file name. This is actually the file name via

name. This is actually the file name via the file import metadata to the media pool. So again, it's telling you go to

pool. So again, it's telling you go to file import metadata unchecked clip start and end time code. There's no time code in CSV and the result you got 27

clips with scene shot take indicators and comments. We got project wide

and comments. We got project wide search, filter by scene, filter by comments, automatic smart bins here with preferences and user editing. Automatic

smart bins. You already enabled that.

You got a new scene category smart bins file for creating a new custom smart bin, new smart bin with B-roll, and then your rules for the filtering does not

contain interview or credits. So again,

these are steps that he went through to create these smart bins. As he's

creating his B-roll, he doesn't want it to be interview. He doesn't want it to be credits. And his sub rules, you got

be credits. And his sub rules, you got keys again, option, alt, plus clip type is video, video, and audio. And then out of that, you get a dynamic smart bin of

B-roll populated with not interview, nonredit video clips. So these are steps that he went through in the video. This

is this is actually telling you how to kind of achieve this and it's all written here. So, this is actually

written here. So, this is actually really useful. Batch renaming the clips

really useful. Batch renaming the clips using the metadata. I like here that it tells you the set the naming pattern.

This is what he did. And you'll notice that it's got percentage symbols in here as opposed to the word percentage. It's

smart enough to know that he's using this as a variable and it actually recorded it the way it it was intended to be recorded. That's really smart.

You're going to see that's not everything does that. And so you've got your smart bin, you've renamed it with your pattern, and then you get smart searchable clip name. So you you're

going through the steps and it's telling you what's the result of these steps.

The result is you get consistent searchable clip names. It's really

helpful. Your timeline creation again, going through each step, telling you what he did, showing pretty good detail here. He's

doing overwrite edits via the timeline viewer. He's navigating with up arrow

viewer. He's navigating with up arrow and JNL keys using detail zoom and full extent zoom identifying edit out points. Loaded his

next interview.

And then tools shortcuts and options.

We're going through the same kind of thing. Importing. You're seeing what

thing. Importing. You're seeing what files and what segments of the menus to select. And the same thing in here.

select. And the same thing in here.

You've got the variables. How to

navigate with playback again with your specific keys. Spacebar and your JNL

specific keys. Spacebar and your JNL keys. up arrow. Then after you've gone

keys. up arrow. Then after you've gone through all those segments and you've seen each of those steps, we got a segment here for what are the risks issues and other things that need to be confirmed. I mentioned before that the

confirmed. I mentioned before that the last name of the filmmaker Tur Wooligan or something like that. They it's

indicated here that transcription is unclear and you need to correct the surname.

the CSV logging specifics. It says here the schema fields in the source are assume standard but letting you know you should confirm that the audio scrubbing behavior was briefly toggled but the exact

desired setting you'll need to confirm that during edit and further assembly decisions and context selection from interview two to be confirmed. This is something that was

be confirmed. This is something that was I think one of the points that he mentioned like you would need to work through finalizing exactly how you want that to look with the filmmaker in this

particular example. And then we got our

particular example. And then we got our next steps. Confirm filmmaker's name.

next steps. Confirm filmmaker's name.

Finalize project metadata credits.

Continue assembling the trailer because again in the video he went through all the steps and he had I would call it a draft project at the end of it but you're going to want to you know continue refining it. the interview

selects. You're gonna in want to integrate more B-roll because he had a whole bunch of B-roll that he could use.

He had music and sound effects.

And you're gonna want to make sure that you've got your bins and your smart bins set up properly and you've got your version control so you you can duplicate your timeline for iterations with

version two and version three. And

that's everything. This is actually pretty good. The way iFly Tech arranges

pretty good. The way iFly Tech arranges this is it has the pages. So you've got your initial page. If if I had taken notes, that would be the first page

here. The transcriptions here and then

here. The transcriptions here and then the summary here. And then if I wanted to create another page, I could create another page. So it puts each of those

another page. So it puts each of those se segments in separate pages kind of sort of. But how long this is, you can

sort of. But how long this is, you can see that it's it's not super long, but it's got a pretty good amount of detail.

I'm just going to scroll through it really as quickly as I can so you can see how long this is. It's probably a good

four or five pages of information, I would say, depending on how how big of a page. Actually, there are page breaks in

page. Actually, there are page breaks in here, so I probably should have been counting, but yeah, there there's probably about

five pages or so of information for 72 minutes and 72 minutes and 14 seconds, it says up here at the top. So, this

really condenses it pretty well. It's

captured a lot of the things I would care about about if I wanted to refer to this in the future in terms of what keys, what key combinations, what

keywords, what menus, what selections, what options, what things to think about. This is actually a pretty decent

about. This is actually a pretty decent transcription and a pretty decent summary that I could take and use with Da Vinci Resolve in the future if I wanted to. So that's what you get out of

wanted to. So that's what you get out of the Fly Tuck AI Note 2.

So, now we're looking at the Samsung Notes summary.

And the first thing you notice is that it's got sections, and each section has bullet points underneath it. And these

bullet points are primarily summaries of what's going on at that point in time in the video. They've got this starter one

the video. They've got this starter one here where it talks about you there's the introduction to Da Vinci Resolve and that they're creating a new project,

navigating to media page. In the next section, you see it's accessing system storage.

Media management is talking about importing footage. It's really just

importing footage. It's really just summarizing what's happening in each of these sections. Organizing media clip.

these sections. Organizing media clip.

It's telling you, okay, it's creating bins.

We're dragging clips and the smart bin using smart bins and thumbnail previews.

It's really just each bullet point is kind of summarizing what's happening at that point in the video. And there are no timestamps, so you don't have a time to link back to in the video. It's just

going through it section by section and giving you about three bullet points for each section.

So, it is correctly summarizing what's happening in each section, but it's not really giving you a sense of how to do anything that it's talking about, right?

So, it it talks about, you know, keyword adding keywords to clips, but it doesn't give you examples of what those keywords are. It talks about organizing them. It

are. It talks about organizing them. It

talks about populating data, clicking and typing, but it's not telling you what to click or what to type. It's

talking about importing data using the file inspector, but it's not telling you how to get to file inspector. It's really just summarizing

inspector. It's really just summarizing what's happening at each point in time and in each section and giving you very concise bullet points of what's happening. But you wouldn't really be

happening. But you wouldn't really be able to go back and pull up this summary and then go through and figure out, okay, what was happening? How can I reproduce this? How can I reproduce

reproduce this? How can I reproduce these steps? What keys were used? What

these steps? What keys were used? What

menus were clicked? what settings were were used, what naming conventions. It's

really just a very concise and correct summary of what's happening. But you

couldn't really use this summary to learn from. You couldn't take this

learn from. You couldn't take this summary and sit down and start editing video and have any kind of of tips or helpful hints on how to be successful.

There is a lot of summary here. You have

10 pages covering the hour and 10 minutes of the video, but all of the the summaries are pretty much the same. You

do occasionally get some information here in the dynamic timeline zoom.

You'll see it talks about using shift Z for full timeline zoom and returning to the previous zoom level. There's a shift plus scroll wheel for track height. So,

occasionally you do see some information here that you could use practically when you're working with Da Vinci Resolve and you want to refer back to these notes.

There's occasional information in here that's useful, but for the most part, it's really just summarizing. Even here

in audio scrubbing, it's not telling you what steps it used to scrub through the audio. It's just telling you that

audio. It's just telling you that scrubbing happened. And that's really

scrubbing happened. And that's really mostly what you see here in this summary. It is a very

summary. It is a very again accurate and concise summary of each of the sections and the sections make sense and it's going through it in order and it has you know correctly kind

of categorized the work into these nice little bullet points. So if you really just want to know what's going on but you don't necessarily want to use these notes to refer back to to be better at

video editing or knowing what steps that the editor took, then this is a pretty decent summary. It's just not helpful

decent summary. It's just not helpful for use when you want to sit down with Da Vinci Resolve and figure out what you need to do to get through the project.

So, here we have the notes from Plaude. Now, it says Samsung Notes audio here because I failed to

bring out the Plaude recorder and record at the time I was recording with everything else and I was not able to work enough time into my schedule to go

back and replay it. So what I did was I exported the audio from Samsung Notes and I imported into Plaude because one of the advantages of the PLA platform is

that you can import audio from anywhere as an audio file and it will transcribe it and generate notes for you. So that

is what I did. So you can actually really compare this directly with the Samsung Notes summary because they use the exact same audio file.

We start off right away with little differences in the format of these notes. You still get the the topic or

notes. You still get the the topic or the name of the file at the top, but now we've got fields for date and time and location and instructor.

Now, the plaude summary generated here was using the intelligent summary where it picks the format for you. I did not pick a a

template for it to use. I told it to go ahead and do the intelligent summary approach and generate the notes that thought it was appropriate based off the audio type. So what we have here is we

audio type. So what we have here is we have a nice overall summary of what the video is about. It tells you, you know, the date. It tells you what the video

the date. It tells you what the video was about, who was it, who was the person who was speaking, what were they speaking about. It's a pretty decent

speaking about. It's a pretty decent summary giving you an overall perspective what's in the entire video.

And that's that can be really useful, especially if you're referring back to this uh in the future and you don't really remember, okay, what was this?

What were these notes about? Having that

overall summary and not having to scroll through all of the the notes in the document could be really useful. So, the

difference we have here right away is we've got different sections. We've got

knowledge points and then we end up with questions and action items or assignments.

which is a a different format than Samsung Notes or Otter or really anything we've seen so far. The

knowledge points walk through what's going on in the video. So, we have this beginning here where it's talking about the project setup. You'll notice right away a difference in how the plot

summary is generated because we're starting at the very beginning and it's telling you okay what to do literally start in project manager click new project here's what to name it click

create it resolve and it opens it in the cut page auto automatically you can see this is much more useful for sitting down with these notes and being able to kind of walk through the steps that you would need in order to start a new

project in Da Vinci Resolve and then do all the different things in the video that the instructor did. So again,

you've got pretty detailed instructions here. It tells you in the media page,

here. It tells you in the media page, right click to add new, um, navigate to the documents, editing folder, choose open. It's pretty detailed, and you'll

open. It's pretty detailed, and you'll see that it's pretty much like this through all the sections. You've got

your folder structure, how to organize your audio clips. It's telling you what what bins to create, how to do the voiceover clips, organizing your video clips with the smart bins and the

keywords. It tells you what keywords

keywords. It tells you what keywords were used. It tells you how to create

were used. It tells you how to create the smart bins.

It's got information on how you import the metadata into your media pool.

It tells you how many different clips should have come through.

It tells you what to do with the inspector in order to see the scene, the shot, and and it goes on like this through pretty much each section. And

the and the sections are numbered, which this is a document, a word document that I generated. So, it will collapse these

I generated. So, it will collapse these into sections that you can navigate to or use in your table of contents. And

they're numbered here. It does that in, I think, pretty much every summary, but the fact that they're numbered here makes it easier to kind of keep track of where you are. We don't have timestamps

here again, but you at least do have the clips that are the sections that are numbered. And again, in each section,

numbered. And again, in each section, it's pretty much telling you almost exactly what he's doing. It's even smart enough here with this renaming clips to give you the percentage sign instead of

the word percentage, which in another summary you'll see it wasn't quite that smart. So, there's really some

smart. So, there's really some intelligence here in knowing, okay, it's not the word, it's actually the symbol.

And as we go through here, it will tell you about sorting, how to do the in-n-out points, what keys to to click

in order to set your in-n-out points, your metadata, managing audio sources,

editing. It's all pretty detailed. You

editing. It's all pretty detailed. You

could really actually sit down with this with these notes and kind of go through and do a lot of these steps on your own with with this project or with a project

of your own just following the same kind of format.

And it goes through each section that way. There's 27 sections, I believe,

way. There's 27 sections, I believe, and it goes through and it tells you in each one what's happening and how to recreate it to the best of its ability.

and in most cases is actually really really useful.

There is a section here for questions.

You'll see that it's blank. You could

insert your own questions here if you wanted to if there was anything that you thought was unclear. And then this assignments really just kind of goes back through all of the tasks again.

It's pretty much the same as the sections, but it's telling you here's what here's the practical list of steps that you need to do to recreate what he

did. And that is the entire eightpage

did. And that is the entire eightpage summary here in plaude which is pretty useful.

I think that this is a really good summary of what was practically done so that again you could use this and actually get through some steps in Da Vinci Resolve and at least have a lot

more information about what keys to press and what steps to take than what you got out of the Samsung Note summary.

So that's what you get from Plaude.

And now here we have the Soundcore work summary. This time I'm I had to export

summary. This time I'm I had to export it as a PDF. I did upload it from Soundcore from the Soundcore app into my

local cloud storage as a Word document, but I couldn't open it in Word on my tablet. So I exported it as a PDF, which

tablet. So I exported it as a PDF, which is what I'm showing here.

And again, we see some similarities to the plot summary. We do see that there's an overall summary right here

and we have the time and the location and related personnel. So if you and again you can export this as as a document or a text file. So you can update these files with time and

location if you want to. Now this

section at the top that I just skipped over, this is unique to Soundcore. These

tags that are in here are all created by Soundcore. I didn't go in and plug in

Soundcore. I didn't go in and plug in any of these tags. It automatically

populated those on its own, which could be useful depending on how you want to use your notes. If you use your notes, you export them to something like Notion

or Obsidian or Capacities, then having tags could be really useful because then you're able to search based off tags. So

that's that's actually neat. And these

tags make sense. I could see that you would probably want to use these if you were searching for this particular document in your knowledge base.

So again, we like I said, we have an overall summary here and then we go through and much like all the others, you have the sections for what steps are

taken throughout the video. Now the

formatting again here was was automatically picked by Soundcore. I did

not specify what type of template to use. So, it's automatically determining

use. So, it's automatically determining that it's going to summarize what's going on in each section and then it's going to give you practical tips and in

some cases actionable guidance.

This is actually pretty neat. I that

could be really useful for for other types of videos like this where it's educational, some information is being imparted that you might want to use in the future and when you go back and kind of refer to it to figure out, okay, how

do I want to do this on my own? Having

the tips section and the actionable guidance is useful because then you can you can consider those when you take these steps in the future.

So again, it's going through the steps and it's kind of telling you what to do. I

wouldn't say that it's quite as detailed as the plaude summary in terms of what exactly what exact steps to take. It is

telling you that you create your new project, you should name it, you can select your source folders with your clips, you can preserve your folder structure. It's not going through though

structure. It's not going through though and telling you, you know, go into project manager, you know, click on this, name it this. It's not that detailed or that specific, but it is going through and telling you what the

steps are. And again, the practical tips

steps are. And again, the practical tips I think can be useful. You keep in mind, you know, making descriptive project names so you know what they are, frame rate prompts so you don't have future

issues. Those are just they are actually

issues. Those are just they are actually what it says. They are just practical tips. In each of these sections, you've

tips. In each of these sections, you've got again three bullet points. That's

that seems to be like the default for these different intelligent summaries that you have three bullet points and then in this case you've got instead of practical tips, you've got actionable guidance. It's telling you organize your

guidance. It's telling you organize your clips, use smart bins to help you out, use keyboard shortcuts. It's not telling you what the keyboard shortcuts are, but it's telling you to use them. So, you'll

have to note that. Although, you do have you do have some shortcuts keys here for manual bin. So, those are listed with

manual bin. So, those are listed with the metad data management. It tells you to add your keywords, import your metadata from CSV files, renaming your

clips. Again, you've got practical tips

clips. Again, you've got practical tips here. Save whenever you change

here. Save whenever you change something, use descriptive keywords, leverage metadata. That those are all

leverage metadata. That those are all like it says useful. You've got each of your sections here again with the three bullet points. And in some cases, it's

bullet points. And in some cases, it's telling you very specific like here was the version numbers. In the video, they used this AOA trailer version one to track it. So, it did call that out

track it. So, it did call that out specifically and it put it in quotation marks so you know that's straight out of the video and it captured it correctly.

Editing workflow with your your drag and drop overlays and telling you where you know to add your clips, how you can drag them in. It's telling you how to set in

them in. It's telling you how to set in andout points and it is telling you keys here. Keyboard shortcuts for override

here. Keyboard shortcuts for override and insert are listed out here.

and your tips again make sense. Always

set your end points, your outpoints, using your overlays, leveraging batch selection, those all make sense. In this next section with

make sense. In this next section with audio management, again, it's giving you some keys.

It's giving you a little bit of information about about what to do with your audio. I think most of the

your audio. I think most of the summaries included this this 12 dB - 12 dB setting, so it's consistent with with everything else here. And again, you got your practical tips. So, it goes through

pretty much like this. And in most cases, giving you at least what the keyboard shortcuts are, which I think are really useful because I know having those those are the things I would write down. If I were taking handwritten

down. If I were taking handwritten notes, I'd want to write down what the keywords are, what the the shortcuts are, what the whatever the key combinations, because I know I'm not going to remember those. I'm going to

refer to those until they become, you know, embedded in my brain and part of my muscle memory. So, at least it is giving you most of those keyboard shortcuts, which is really useful. And

so, we just go through it all like this with a pretty good pretty good step by step. Not quite as detailed as the

step. Not quite as detailed as the plaid, but at least it is giving you keyboard shortcuts and it is capturing information about what types of naming conventions you should use. As we go

through here, you'll see it just continues on with giving you keys that are really useful and the practical tips make sense with the matching the frame

rates. Tells you, you know, keys again

rates. Tells you, you know, keys again here, your actionable guidance. These

all make sense and it's it's grouped and organized in a way that makes sense.

I could sit down with these and at least even if I don't have the step-by-step instructions, at least again like I have a good sense of, you know, okay, here's where I should be going. Here's what I

should be thinking about, what I should be using on the keyboard to make things faster and easier for me, things that I should be thinking about to keep my

information organized and be able to use my clips intelligently.

So, it has gone through and it's outlined everything that that's in the video and it's captured what I would say are the the key bits of information, what steps you should take in what order, what keys you should be using,

what kinds of things you be you should be thinking about to keep yourself out of trouble and keep yourself organized.

This is pretty good. It's nine pages of information for the 1 hour or 10-minute video. I would say this is a really

video. I would say this is a really decent summary. And if I had never seen

decent summary. And if I had never seen the plot one, I would say this was the best of the bunch, but we'll talk more about that in the rest of the video.

Okay, so now we've gone through a variety of different recording devices and applications, and so what would I say my overall impressions are? Well,

before I go into that, I do want to mention that I did record with Otter.ai, which is an application that's available for Android and iOS. And because I

didn't do a free trial or pay for the software, I actually think I've tried the free trial before, I don't have the opportunity to record more than 30 minutes at a time. And so I did record

30 minutes of it and it did a decent summary. The one thing I really do like

summary. The one thing I really do like about the Otter.ai summary is that it has timestamps in it. So each segment, it breaks out the the video into segments pretty much like everything else did with the three bullets

underneath, but you get time codes on each one of those segments and that can be really useful because then you can go back and refer later to okay, where exactly in the video did he talk about smart bins or metadata or whatever and

you can go back and see that and I think that's really useful. But because I wasn't able to get the whole video transcribed and summarized, I didn't really want to include a lot of detail

on that one in the video. It is less detailed than most of the other ones that I covered. I think if we talk about this in order of detail and and usefulness in this particular scenario,

Apple Notes provided the least amount of information. It provided a good overall

information. It provided a good overall summary of what was recorded, what was in the video, but it didn't really give you the kind of details that you need in order to to follow instructions in the future or to even be better at at video

editing. It's just going to tell you

editing. It's just going to tell you what was happening in the video. So that

if you want to be able to figure out, okay, I've done summaries on all of these different Da Vinci Resolve training videos. What was this one

training videos. What was this one about? Again, it it'll tell you that.

about? Again, it it'll tell you that.

It'll help you understand, okay, that's that's the one that's talking about Age of Airplanes. It's going back to the

of Airplanes. It's going back to the beginning. Otter AI is a little bit more

beginning. Otter AI is a little bit more detailed than that because it does break it down into segments and then it gives you the bullet points for each of the segments, but it's not a step-by-step kind of thing where you can go back and

refer to it as reference material in the future. With the iFly tech, you get a

future. With the iFly tech, you get a pretty decent amount of detail with, you know, keywords and commands and file

types and keywords to look for. And it's

all laid out in a way that's pretty easy to understand. The iFly Tech does give

to understand. The iFly Tech does give you more in terms of usefulness for future reference than you get with Apple or with Otter. However, you really do

get the most bang for buck when you're going with the hardware recorders.

With the plot, you get a lot of really good detail with step by step, almost step-by-step instructions. You could

step-by-step instructions. You could almost walk through the steps that he took in the video to do the editing on the Age of Airplanes trailer that he was creating.

And it had a lot of good information about what you should be thinking about as well. Now, when it comes to that kind

as well. Now, when it comes to that kind of detail though, I will say that if you're looking for practical tips or actionable guidance or things to be thinking about in the future, Soundcore

does have an edge overplot in that particular area with those practical tips segments and the actionable guidance. It really does make you think,

guidance. It really does make you think, okay, these are things that I should be considering in the future. However, if

you're just looking for detail in terms of what I should be doing, what steps I should be taking, I think Plot had an edge over Soundcore in terms of really capturing the steps in a lot more detail than the Soundcore. But I think both of

those are probably the winners depending on what you're looking for and depending on what kind of pricing structure and what kind of hardware you're looking for. Because all of this really in the

for. Because all of this really in the end comes down to what kind of hardware you're looking for, what are you looking for out of your notes and your summaries. If you are looking for really

summaries. If you are looking for really good detail step by step, even with a a Da Vinci Resolve training video, you're going to get really good responses out of the PLA transcriptions. But if you

really do want more tips and tricks and things to think about, then Soundcore, I think, might be the way to go. And from

a hardware perspective, you prefer the Soundcore approach with the little small recorder that you can clip to your clothes or hang on a lanyard, whereas you really can't do that quite as

effectively with Plaude. Then it's

something to think about. The hardware

of the Soundcore I do appreciate over Plaude. Now, Plaude has a note pin. It's

Plaude. Now, Plaude has a note pin. It's

not quite as flexible as the Soundcore work. Plaude has the Plaude Pro, which

work. Plaude has the Plaude Pro, which has a screen on it, which can be handy if you do want to see more information about what's going on with the device.

But I think even with that respect, the sound core with the charging dock and the three lights, I think it give you at least more information than you get what with the Plaude regular, the nonpro plaid. So for me, I'm going to keep

plaid. So for me, I'm going to keep using Plaude because I have I've paid for 2 years in advance. I'm going to keep using it, but I do think the Soundcore Work is a really good device from a hardware perspective and from a

software perspective. And if I had never

software perspective. And if I had never used Plaude, I'd be really impressed with Lancor Work. So what do you think?

What are you looking for from a transcription service? What are you

transcription service? What are you looking for from a hardware recorder?

Would you use any of these? Would you

stick with, you know, whatever you've got? Would you stick with Apple Notes

got? Would you stick with Apple Notes and Samsung Notes? Knowing that, you know, those built-in notes apps aren't going to be quite as detailed as what you get when you pay for something. But

if it's all you've got, it's absolutely better than nothing. Apple will give you a good summary. Samsung gives you a lot of good detail, just not step-by-step kind of instructions, but a lot of good

detail on the overall uh topics that were covered in any particular audio video that you're recording and transcribing. So, that's a look at all

transcribing. So, that's a look at all of them, at least all the ones that I have now. We'll see where this whole

have now. We'll see where this whole industry goes in the future. I think

that transcription services on phones and tablets are going to get better with time as more and more of these companies really start to incorporate more A and services into their operating systems.

And it may be that in the next 2 to 3 years, the transcription you get with Apple Notes and the transcription you get with Samsung Notes and whatever Google wants to put on their devices in the future might be good enough that you

might not even feel like you need to pay for something that's separate anymore, unless you're just worried about battery life on your phone. That's something to look forward to. Maybe not having to spend more money always a good thing.

And let me know what you think. Let me

know if you tried any of these. If

you're willing to try any of these.

Would you spend money on them? Curious

to know how big of a audience these devices have out there. That's what I got. Thanks for watching.

got. Thanks for watching.