Recording and transcribing a meeting to create meeting minutes

[Danbor]

I'm not sure how I got into this situation, but here I am. I'm a member of a Veterans group and, somehow, I been tasked with keeping the minutes of our monthly meetings. A task I know nothing about.
Is there a combination of bluetooth or USB microphone and software that is compatible with Mint running on my Toshiba laptop that I can use to record and transcribe these meetings? Does such a thing even exist?

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

I'm not sure how I got into this situation, but here I am. I'm a member of a Veterans group and, somehow, I been tasked with keeping the minutes of our monthly meetings. A task I know nothing about.
Is there a combination of bluetooth or USB microphone and software that is compatible with Mint running on my Toshiba laptop that I can use to record and transcribe these meetings? Does such a thing even exist?

I do Know of Zoom having these abilities, but I'd try it out first. I only remember about seeing the banner in school when the Meetings were started. Just a staring point to look into.

 

[Condobloke]

I have not read all of this....but it may hold something for you.......hopefully.

Voxfox – A friendly linux screenreader

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The guys post is here :

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Thread 'VoxFox: the Linux screen-reader I had to build myself'

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I've been a happy Linux user since the start of this century, and I've run plenty of distros over the years — Gentoo and Debian were always my favourites.

In 2012 I had an accident, and since then I can no longer read. I can still write, but for someone working as a system administrator, losing the ability to read was an enormous blow.

Ever since, I've relied on text-to-speech software to keep working with computers. At first I had no choice but to use Windows, with ClaroRead as my text-to-speech software. Not ideal, but it let me manage my Linux servers remotely.

Over time I managed to...

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He seems quite approachable

 

[onzem]

Voxfox is not build for this purpose, I do not know if it works with meetings and would not try with an old laptop, but if you record the meetins, you could use it to transcribe the records in parts, that should work

But it really depends on how big the meeting is how much people there are and the quality of the microphone(s)

I was actually thinking about building something like this, unless I find something similar

 

[KGIII]

You can get a Tascam recorder that saves to a card (or some had/have internal storage as well). Then, you transcribe when you're home -- or find a way to automate it. Even a good cell phone might record well enough. It's going to be recorded in a standard audio format.

 

[deb_user]

My first thought was that all online meeting software has this capability, but it occurs to me that perhaps these are live meetings, not online. Audacity and Ardour are both capable of recording audio, and there are many others. Either use the search facility in the GUI software manager (Synaptic, or whatever is available in Mint) or in a terminal use "apt search audio record" and you will get lots of choices.

 

[MikeWalsh]

I built "Easy Voice Recorder" for the Puppy Linux community, some time ago. Very basic, it simply uses arecord to record & save as a .wav file. EVR provides a small, YAD-based GUI.

It allows you to choose your audio source. I use the stereo microphones on my Logitech c920 webcam (this is a desktop, not a lappie, so no 'global' built-in microphone. Desktops don't have those.)

It's 'portable', and totally self-contained - so will run from anywhere. You can save as many voice files internally as you want. From the sound of it, a straightforward audio file is all you need.....and most audio players will handle WAV files without issue.

You don't need complexity for summat like this; the simpler, the better. The K.I.S.S principle works very well here.

No use my sharing it, since the whole thing is built to 'run as root', and mainstream distros won't have that!


Mike.

 

[deb_user]

Some desktops do have built-in microphones. My NUC has one, for example. FWIW.

 

[dos2unix]

I'm not sure how I got into this situation, but here I am. I'm a member of a Veterans group and, somehow, I been tasked with keeping the minutes of our monthly meetings. A task I know nothing about.
Is there a combination of bluetooth or USB microphone and [COLOR=revert-layer] software[/COLOR] that is compatible with Mint running on my Toshiba [COLOR=revert-layer] laptop[/COLOR] that I can use to record and transcribe these meetings? Does such a thing even exist?

CoPilot with MS Teams can do this. It can be done on Linuxm through the office365 browser edition.

 

[Danbor]

I read up on zoom, and teams and a few others. They look workable, with a lot of work. These meetings aren't virtual or online. Just the old fashioned kind. Everyone sitting in the same room at the same time. More or less following Roberts rules of order.
From all my reading, The Jabra Speak 510 bluetooth microphone is supposed to be Linux compatible. Vibe Transcribe looks like what I'm looking for and it's available as an appimage. I also found QTexttospeech in the respository. I'll surf around and see if I can find any reviews before I commit to purchasing hardware and downloading software.
I discovered yesterday that the Legion does have a laptop that may or may not be already set up for this. As soon as I find out who has the username and password for the thing I'll see what's there. Hopefully I can go that route and leave my laptop at home. It's been a few years since I've touched anything running windows so that should get ... interesting.