It's not bad to be able to optionally keep recordings of dictation, but the program defaults to keeping everything (audio, notes, etc.) If you just want to dictate to the mic & have the computer transcribe it to a text file, by default the program wants to save way more data than you need.Ĥ) AtTC defaults to what it wants to default to & there does not appear to be any way to change those default options.

Then it started hearing me & transcribing, So if it doesn't work for you, definitely check to see that the problem isn't somewhere in your system's audio settings.ģ) Both Record and Transcribe modes appear to make audio recordings of what you're saying & when you go to export the file, both give you the option of keeping or deleting the audio. Turned out that I had to go several levels into audio settings to find out my mic had been muted.

But as AtTC exists only to transcribe, it would be clearer to label the functions as 'transcribe from mic.', ' transcribe recording', etc.Ģ) When I told AtTC to use the mic instead of the system speakers it still didn't work. This may be useful for students who have recorded lectures people who have recorded meetings etc. My take is that the 'Transcription' mode is for transcribing things recorded previously. As far as I can tell both modes work exactly the same except Record goes to the mic by default. Why is it looking for audio from the system speakers?

So to use that mode you have to start it, then click on the microphone, every time. I noticed that in that mode it defaults to looking for audio from the system speakers rather than the microphone. My initial impressions of AtTC (Audio to Text Converter) after some testing:ġ) I wanted to dictate to the computer & have it transcribe it, so in my first attempt I tried the 'Transcription' mode.

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