Record audio
Audio is useful when speaking is faster than typing or when tone and detail matter. A recording can stand alone or live inside a task.
Capture a recording
- Open the journal or the task that should own the recording.
- Use the + action and choose Audio Recording.
- Review the available processing options.
- Start recording, speak clearly, then stop when finished.
During capture, the sheet keeps elapsed time and the live input visualizer in view. You can pause and resume without ending the recording, discard the take, or choose Stop to save it. When task-aware transcription is available, the Speech Recognition option controls whether processing should begin after the recording is saved.
When an inference profile and transcription skill are configured, Lotti can transcribe the recording after capture. Task recordings may also offer task-aware processing such as checklist or summary updates.
Dictate useful task context
For task-aware processing, say the outcome and then name concrete actions, people, dates, or constraints. “Confirm the Friday cargo window, then ask Mission Control about the launch approval” gives Lotti far more useful context than “sort out the penguin thing.” A short pause between distinct actions also makes the resulting transcript easier to review.
Task-aware processing can turn that recording into a transcript, a refreshed report, or checklist suggestions. These are reviewable AI outputs, not a claim that the task changed by itself: check names, dates, and proposed changes before you accept them. For difficult audio, move somewhere quieter, keep the microphone reasonably close, and speak at a natural, steady pace.
Review saved transcripts
Open an audio entry, use its … menu, and choose Speech Recognition. The review sheet keeps every saved transcript with the recording instead of replacing an earlier result. Each row shows when processing ran, how long it took, the detected language, and the provider and model that produced it.
The language selector currently offers Auto, English, and Deutsch. Use Auto when the provider should detect the language, or select a language before running recognition when you already know it. The choice is stored on the audio entry.
Select the double-chevron on a result to reveal the complete, selectable text. Expanding a row also reveals its delete action. Deleting a transcript removes that recognition result, not the source recording or the other transcripts.
Choose automation deliberately
Processing options are requests to configured AI skills. The selected provider may be local or remote, so verify the active inference profile before using sensitive material. Review generated text and proposed task changes rather than treating them as source truth.
See AI provider setup to control where inference runs.