One of my favorite additions to the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL has been Google's new Recorder app, which taps into Google's software smarts to offer live, real-time transcription of your recordings.
This is a real time-saver, as I've learned covering Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 launch this week, as I can record interviews, tap a button and get a transcript of the audio file I've just created that I can then copy and edit.
If you have a Pixel 2 or later, you should head to Google Play right now and download Recorder. It's one of the biggest productivity boosters I've used in a while.
The transcription isn't perfect: Recorder doesn't distinguish between different speakers, and it has a bit of a problem detecting when one sentence ends and another begins. Background noise can also affect the accuracy of what Recorder transcribes, and the feature only works with English at present. But giving you a starting point to edit your transcript, it's certainly better than starting from scratch.
There's no word from Google on whether Recorder will find its way to other Android phones.
