Notes on recording, transcription and privacy
Practical guides, written to be useful whether or not you ever use Nuvi.
How to use the iPhone Action button to record
Set the iPhone Action button to start a voice recording: the built-in Voice Memo action, a shortcut from another app, and options for iPhones without it.
AI note taker privacy: what happens to your audio
Six questions to ask any AI note taker about your audio: where it is processed, who gets it, how long it is kept, and how Nuvi answers each one.
AI note takers without a bot: how they work
How bot-free AI note takers capture audio: computer audio, a phone or watch in the room, or a dedicated recorder. Trade-offs, examples and consent.
Using Apple Watch as a voice recorder
How to record on Apple Watch with Voice Memos, how recordings sync, the practical limits, third-party apps, and when a phone on the table does better.
The best way to record lectures (and actually use them)
How to record a lecture well: get permission, sit close, place the phone right, then turn the transcript into study notes you will actually review.
How to take meeting notes with AI
A practical method for AI meeting notes: what to do before, during and after, the two kinds of AI note taker, and how to check the summary.
Is it legal to record a meeting? Consent by region
One-party and all-party consent in the US, plus the UK, EU, Canada and Australia, with links to the statutes. General information, not legal advice.
Meeting minutes vs meeting notes vs action items
What minutes, meeting notes and action items each are, who writes and reads them, when formal minutes are required, and short templates for all three.
Speaker diarization explained: who said what
What speaker diarization is, how segmentation, embeddings and clustering work, why it makes mistakes, and how to record so speakers are told apart.
How to transcribe a voice memo on iPhone
Transcribe a voice memo on iPhone with Voice Memos or Notes: requirements, steps, supported languages, and what to use when you need speakers or a summary.
Whisper and multilingual transcription in plain words
What OpenAI's Whisper is, how it was trained, what large-v3 changed, why accuracy differs by language and noise, and the failure modes its authors report.