The practicability of "Google Pixel" is amazing! Focus on the new features of over-convenient tape recorder applications

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The automatic typing function of Japanese has been added to the "tape recorder" from the "Google Pixel6" series to the standard application.

　The most exciting device for me in 2021 is Google's 5G smartphone, the Google Pixel6. The high-function camera and the technology of photo animation after photography are easy to be hit by the spotlight, and the author, as a writer, is also very useful for his work, which is the "automatic typing" function of the tape recorder. As a necessary tool for business people, I would like to introduce its charm. Japanese typing accuracy and speed are field-class automatic typing, which is carried by the standard application "tape recorder" of Google's Pixel series of smartphones, which, like its name, converts sounds picked up with microphones into text data. Traditionally, it only supports English, but starting with the Pixel 6 series, it corresponds to Japanese, French and German characters. The Pixel series sold in Japan in the past can also automatically generate Japanese through updates to the application. Speech / language is recognized through a microphone built into the Pixel series, and voice-to-text conversion is performed almost in real time. We will talk about precision later, as the Japanese corresponding automatic typing application has a very good sense of speed. If you download the "dictionary file" of each language in the tape recorder application, you can use the automatic typing function even if the terminal is offline. For example, to go abroad, even if the Pixel series is not connected to the cellular network, it can also be used as a corresponding automatic typing recorder. Because there is only one language that can produce text while listening to sound at a time, for example, in the case of a conversation with a native English speaker through translation, the automatic text prompt of the recorder application will only text the language specified in the setting. It seems convenient to write the specified two languages into words, but there is no such function yet. The text and sound are left together. The inspection of ambiguities is also a foolproof point that the author is very attractive to the application of tape recorders, that is, APP is also a "voice tape recorder" as its name implies. Since you generate an audio file that can be downloaded in MP3 format, you can click the appropriate character on the screen of the recorder application to listen to the obscure parts repeatedly. The logger application also has the ability to search for specific keywords and delete and edit unwanted places before outputting text files from the application. As long as the storage of the mobile phone is not exhausted, there is no limit to the capacity of text and sound that can be recorded as a document. After you select raise text from share, you can save the data generated by the text as a text format (.txt) or an Google document. With regard to the former, the "line break" inserted after the application recognizes the conversation disappears and becomes a lazy series of text, so it cannot be recommended. If you keep it as an Google document, it can also be easily converted to a text count or Word document and sent by email. If you choose to save through an Google document, the text of the set paragraph is recorded between each session. It is easy to grasp the content of the text in the future. Since there is no function to identify the voices of conversation participants in the Pixel series, when two people start talking at the same time, they are awakened by words in a mixed state of response. Will pick up echoes and gossip again. In today's technology, it may not be possible to use only one smartphone, so, for example, how about setting a mode that separates the voice of character Ahand B to produce text by pointing a highly directional microphone into two strands toward both sides of the speaker? I also want an external microphone accessory that can control the directivity of the Pixel series of tape recorders. In addition, in addition to sound and text, as an "animation clip", it also has the following functions: after trimming the recording to about 5 minutes, it retains the data generated by the text as a graphic to reproduce the sound waveform and as an animation in the form of MP4 with subtitles. After pruning an impressive sentence in the interview, it can also be used as animation material to decorate Web reports. Because it is a mobile phone APP, so the automatic typing function corresponding to Pixel series Japanese, which will not be "not available when necessary", although the error identification is still obvious, there are many useful elements in the author's case, so it is also actively used in interviews and other work sites. As mentioned earlier, in addition to textual material, sound is also recorded, so it is safe to double check the transformation of fuzzy text with sound. Participants also need to understand in advance, but the Pixel series recorder application will be an indispensable tool for those who leave meetings and meetings in voice and text, make notes, or are involved in the production of minutes of meetings. Although some people think that a single-function tape recorder is easier to use than a smartphone, because it is a standard smartphone app used every day, there is little worry about forgetting things, so you can use it by starting the app quickly. If there is a difficulty, it is that the mobile phone is very difficult to use in the recording. For example, the author believes that in addition to the main mobile phones, it is also possible to buy and use the second-hand Pixel series as recording pens that can produce Japanese text. Although there are still rough areas, it feels more likely to be brushed and become an easy-to-use app for everyone. In 2022, the topics related to "automatic voice typing" around the Google Pixel series are expected to heat up further. (freelance writer Yamamoto)