AI Note Taker for Microsoft Teams (2026): The Best Options
A documentation-based roundup of the best AI note takers for Microsoft Teams in 2026 — bot vs bot-free capture, free tiers, language coverage, and which one fits your meetings.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-04
AI Meeting Notes: How AI Captures Decisions, Action Items, and Summaries (and How to Pick a Note-Taker)
AI meeting notes turn a recorded call into a structured record — a clean transcript, a summary, the decisions, and who owns which action item. Here's how that capture works, and how to choose a note-taker that fits the meetings you run.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-04
How to Transcribe and Translate Any Language to English with AI
To turn non-English audio or video into English, you transcribe the speech first and then translate the text — two steps, not one. AI does the heavy lifting well now, but some languages are far harder to get right than others. This guide walks the general workflow and shows where AI shines and where you still do the work, with real examples from the tough cases.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-04
How to Get a Transcript of a YouTube Video (2026): Built-in Captions, AI Tools, Accuracy & Export
Two ways to get a YouTube video transcript — the built-in Show transcript panel, and pasting the link into an AI transcription tool. Here is how each works, how accurate they are, which languages and export formats you get, and when to use which.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-04
How to Record a Google Meet (2026): Host and Non-Host Options, Permissions, and a Clean Transcript After
To record a Google Meet, you need an eligible paid Google Workspace edition (or a Google One plan with 2 TB+ storage), you have to be on a computer or Android device, and you must either be the host or have the host's permission — there is no recording on a free personal Google account. This guide covers exactly who can hit Record, where the file lands, and how to turn that recording into a searchable, multilingual transcript and AI summary afterward. I run Subanana, so I'll show our path at the end, but most of this is just how Google Meet itself works.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-04
Best Transcription Software in 2026: An Honest Comparison
An honest, documentation-based comparison of the best transcription software in 2026 — Otter, Rev, Sonix, Descript, Happy Scribe, and Subanana. Accuracy claims, languages, speaker labels, exports, and price, with a clear note on which one fits which job.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-03
Whisper Transcription: How to Transcribe Audio with OpenAI Whisper (and When a Managed Tool Wins)
OpenAI's Whisper is a genuinely good open-source speech-to-text model — and you can run it yourself for free. Here's the real step-by-step (pip, Python, the hosted API, and GUI apps), an honest look at where Whisper leaves work on your plate, and how to decide between the DIY route and a managed transcription tool.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-03
AI Transcription Accuracy: Why Vendor Benchmarks Lie, and How We Actually Test Models
Vendor accuracy benchmarks are mostly marketing. Here's how we test transcription and subtitle models against real mixed-language, accented, multi-speaker speech — the methodology, the numbers from our own run, and what the published WER scores never tell you.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-03
How to Transcribe Podcasts and Interviews Accurately
A practical workflow for turning long-form, multi-speaker audio into clean, speaker-labelled transcripts you can actually research and repurpose — and how to tell when AI is enough versus when you need a human pass.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-01
How to Transcribe a Video (2026): From File or Link to an Editable Transcript
A practical guide to turning any video — an uploaded file, a YouTube link, or a recorded call — into a clean, editable text transcript. Covers the transcript-versus-subtitles decision, the upload-to-export workflow, and which format to pick for notes, articles, or captions.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-01
How to Transcribe Audio to Text Accurately (Even Noisy, Accented, Multi-Speaker Recordings)
Most audio transcribes cleanly on the first pass. The recordings that don't are the ones that matter for work and research — noisy rooms, strong accents, technical jargon, several people talking. This guide explains what actually drives transcription accuracy on hard audio, then shows how to use Subanana's transcript mode to get a speaker-labelled, punctuated transcript you can quote and cite.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-01
How to Transcribe a Video to Text: Import, Transcribe, Edit, Export
To transcribe a video to text, import the file or paste a public video link, run it through transcript mode, proofread the result in the editor, and export it as DOCX, TXT, or another text format. This guide walks through each step, and explains when you want a readable transcript versus an SRT subtitle file — two different outputs that people often confuse.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-01