iOS 753: Voice Tools - Voice Memos, Notes recordings, & more
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Discover powerful voice recording and transcription apps that can transform how you capture ideas, take notes, and create content on your Apple devices. Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard explore essential voice tools while sharing exciting news about CarPlay Ultra's debut in Aston Martin vehicles.
- Voice Memos app - Built into iOS with live transcription capabilities, allowing users to record, edit, search transcripts, and enhance audio quality with features like silence skipping.
- Just Press Record - Popular third-party app offering automatic transcription in multiple languages, customizable file formats, and the ability to share recordings as text, audio, or video.
- Ferrite Recording Studio - Professional-grade podcast production tool for iPhone and iPad with multi-track editing, effects, automation, and advanced audio manipulation capabilities.
- Otter - Voice transcription service that has evolved to include enterprise features like AI summaries, meeting integrations with Zoom and Teams, and action item extraction.
- Notes app recording feature - Built-in audio recording in Apple's Notes app that synchronizes with typed or handwritten notes, providing searchable transcriptions.
News
- CarPlay Ultra announced - Apple's next-generation car interface is debuting in Aston Martin vehicles with support for instrument clusters and customizable displays; coming soon to Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis. The new CarPlay Ultra works with devices as old as iPhone 12 running iOS 18.5, making the technology accessible to more users.
Shortcuts Corner
- New Shortcuts features in iOS 18.4 - Latest update includes actions for Clock app (add/remove cities), Messages app (open specific conversations), and settings controls for various apps.
- Safari settings shortcuts - New ability to toggle pop-up blocking, change search engines, and adjust tab behavior through shortcuts, allowing customized browser experiences.
- Creating profiles - Using the new settings shortcuts to create pseudo-profiles for different contexts like work and personal use on iOS and iPadOS
App Caps
- Partiful - Free event planning app with features like date polling, RSVP tracking, photo sharing, playlist integration, and "chip in" payment options for collecting money from attendees.
- Moft Dynamic Folio - iPad case offering several viewing angles with innovative folding design, available for multiple iPad models and starting around $40.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about some tools for recording, editing, and doing what you need with voices. Stay tuned. |
| 0:14.7 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:16.5 | From people you trust. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:24.6 | This is Twit. This is iOS Today, episode 753, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, May 20th, 2025, for Thursday, May 22nd, 2025. Voice Tools. Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk |
| 0:43.3 | all things iOS, iPad OS, watchOS, HomePod OS, and all the OSs that Apple has on offer. We love |
| 0:49.2 | to talk about them on this show and help you make the most of your devices. I am but one of your |
| 0:57.5 | humble hosts of this show. My name is Micah Sargent. And my name is Rosemary Ochid, and I'm very |
| 1:04.8 | excited to be here again because, you know, who doesn't love using their voice to control their devices |
| 1:10.2 | and to do all those magic things? Yeah, who doesn't? Because their voice to control their devices and to do all those magic things. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, who doesn't? Because if you don't, I want to know why. That's just wild. That's silly. |
| 1:18.6 | No, this, of course, is an opportunity for us to talk about something that is, in some cases, kind of built into your device. |
| 1:25.6 | And it's something that I see people use quite often for all sorts of things, |
| 1:31.3 | you know, whether you are just attempting to kind of keep, keep memories around, |
| 1:38.5 | you know, remind yourself of things that you need to get done. |
| 1:41.4 | If you are, you hear something that really sticks out to you and you |
| 1:46.3 | want to go about making it even more powerful, you are, you hear like, you know, music or |
| 1:54.2 | something and you go, oh, that's really inspiring. It's called voice memos. And this app has long lived on your phone. |
| 2:05.0 | And it gives you the ability to simply record different audio. |
| 2:11.6 | And yes, it works kind of like a little portable audio recorder. |
| 2:18.5 | You are able to do, you know, simple recordings, but then you can actually take those |
| 2:23.2 | recordings and get a little bit more from them. |
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