Minutes: AI Voice Notes2.0.5

Embrace the future of speech-to-text technology. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper technology, Minutes turns your iPhone or iPad into a portable audio recorder and transcriber, making it easy to capture and share personal notes, classroom lectures, meeting minutes, and more.

Minutes gives you the flexibility to choose between the latest and greatest Whisper model (hosted on OpenAI's servers), or opt for smaller models that enable offline usage. This ensures that you can transcribe anytime, anywhere, regardless of your internet connectivity.

Minutes empowers you to go beyond simple text conversion by integrating the capabilities of OpenAI's ChatGPT, allowing you to generate comprehensive transcript summaries, extract key points, identify action items, follow-up questions, and explore related topics. Seamlessly export your insights directly to Notion, enabling seamless collaboration and organization.

Other Features
. Start transcribing real-time audio with a single tap.
. Organise transcriptions into folders.
. Transcribe audio directly from your Photos Library, Files App, and even YouTube URLs.
. Copy to clipboard or export as TXT, SRT and M4A.
. Support for 40+ languages (see https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7031512-whisper-api-faq).

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Version History - Fixed a bug that caused data loss in some extremely rare cases 2.0.5 07/27/2024 URGENT: Due to a security issue impacting developer-related costs, online transcription and summary generation have been temporarily disabled. Users with personal API keys can still access these features. I apologise for all inconvenience caused! 2.0.4 03/18/2024 This update contains various bug fixes and improvements. Most notably:
- Resolved an issue that prevented Notion automation from functioning correctly. 2.0.3 03/08/2024 Bug fixes and performance improvements, most notably:
• Fixed a bug causing the export functionality to truncate transcripts on occassion. 2.0.2 09/04/2023 Partially addressed crashes occurring in the background while recording audio. Investigations revealed that the crashes were caused by the operating system terminating the app when a user exits it.

Since transcription is a resource-intensive task, the system restricts apps from performing such tasks in the background. To mitigate this issue, the update now cancels the transcription process when a user quits Minutes. However, on slower devices and/or larger models, the cancellation may take more than a few seconds, causing the app to be terminated anyway.

A comprehensive solution is under development, involving significant changes to the user workflow. As a temporary workaround to avoid app termination, it is advised not to quit and reopen Minutes repeatedly while recording. For instance, if you wish to conserve battery, exit Minutes after starting the recording, and only open the app to pause/stop the recording. I apologise for any inconvenience caused! 2.0.1 07/17/2023 Minutes 2.0 comes with 2 major new features exclusive to Pro subscribers, as well as numerous bug fixes and improvements across the board.

• Automate the Generate Summary → Export to Notion workflow. Minutes can now be configured to automatically generate summaries of new transcripts and export them to a Notion database of your choice, even when the app is in the background.

• Minutes can now be configured to produce transcriptions at the word level, i.e. every word in the transcript will have a timestamp, much like subtitles on a Karaoke machine. 2.0 07/07/2023 - Hot-fix for a bug that caused navigation to be broken on iPhones running iOS 16.3 and below. Apologies for any inconvenience caused! 1.0.8 06/16/2023 This version mainly includes bug fixes and improvements to both performance and user experience:
• Exporting transcript summaries to Notion now supports arbitrary lengths without any issues. Previously, excessively long summaries caused export failures.
• Loading indicators have been added to provide visual feedback during the process of regenerating transcript summaries and exporting them to Notion.
• A confirmation dialog will now appear when appropriate, ensuring a smoother transcription experience. The alert will be presented in two main scenarios:
1. Before transcribing imported audio/video files or downloaded YouTube videos.
2. Before starting a recording when low on credits.
*No confirmation is needed when the transcription is free, e.g. Minutes Pro subscribers using offline models
• Minutes should now be available on Macs with Apple Silicon. Transcribe even faster on Macs, especially when using offline models. 1.0.7 06/13/2023 This version mainly includes bug fixes and improvements to both performance and user experience:
• Exporting transcript summaries to Notion now supports arbitrary lengths without any issues. Previously, excessively long summaries caused export failures.
• Loading indicators have been added to provide visual feedback during the process of regenerating transcript summaries and exporting them to Notion.
• A confirmation dialog will now appear when appropriate, ensuring a smoother transcription experience. The alert will be presented in two main scenarios:
1. Before transcribing imported audio/video files or downloaded YouTube videos.
2. Before starting a recording when low on credits.
*No confirmation is needed when the transcription is free, e.g. Minutes Pro subscribers using offline models 1.0.6 06/12/2023 - Fixed a bug where certain files could not be transcribed due to a file format conversion failure.
- Added a loading indicator when fetching the audio stream from a YouTube URL.
- Added a loading indicator when preparing videos from Photos Library . 1.0.5 06/03/2023 - Prevent the device from going idle when generating summaries
- You can now open audio/video files from other apps in Minutes to start transcribing immediately 1.0.4 06/03/2023 - Prevent the device from going idle when performing long-running tasks like downloading and transcribing. 1.0.3 05/30/2023 - In-App Purchases should now be displayed on the store, allowing you to purchase additional credits for transcription!
- Fixed more navigation glitches on smaller devices
- Fixed a memory leak with offline Whisper models 1.0.2 05/29/2023 - Fixed various navigation glitches on smaller devices 1.0.1 05/25/2023 1.0 05/24/2023