AudioPen
I want to share this new amazing AI tool with you! It's currently in the 'early launch mode' which means early adopters will benefit from a deep discount and be grandfathered in to what will likely be more expensive at a later date. I opted for the lifetime purchase option to avoid the monthly fees.
I'm currently using it to improve the quality of my prior writings and craft clearer emails. Although I've written over a thousand posts on this site, most could use the polish AI to improve readabilty. I plan to use AudioPen to help me bring them into a publishable state! When you do have a prime membership, you can drop your written notes and let the tool organize your ramblings into coherent text that others can understand.
Also, if you like me, are a better speaker than writer, AudioPen is a godsend.
A few years ago I interviewed an author that we had transcribed and added to his book in a FAQ chapter. If we had had a tool like AudioPen, it would been finished in half the time!
AudioPen is more than a voice transcription service. Besides transcribing your voice notes, it also extracts the most important content, and then rewrites it in clear, structured text.
This lets you ramble and record an unstructured voice note, and get a clearly written, ready-to-share piece of text at the end of it. All you need to do is talk. You can literally think out loud.
Many Ways to use AudioPen
Create content: Blank pages can be intimidating. And tools that let you click a button to generate a draft feel inauthentic. AudioPen sits right in the middle. Think out loud, and let AudioPen structure your thoughts in a writing style of your choice.
Capture thoughts on the go: Imagine you're taking a walk. And an idea comes to you. Grab your phone, ramble. AudioPen will transcribe and rewrite your idea in clear, flowing text.
Save book notes: Capture interesting ideas from books quickly and easily without the hassle of scribbling in the margins or typing on your phone or laptop. You can speak your notes or you can paste them directly from your Kindle reader (if you have Audiopen prime).
Keep a personal journal: Speak what's on your mind, and AudioPen will extract the essential points and remove any fluff. Particularly useful when you just want to sort through a mess of thoughts.
Compose emails: Imagine you want to type out a long, complex message to someone. Just speak to AudioPen as if you were talking to the person you're messaging, and it'll summarize your audio into a neat message that you can copy with one click.
Turn your prior talks into books and articles: If you're like me, you can speak better than you can write. AudioPen turns good speakers into good writers!
Writing Styles
On AudioPen Prime, you can customize your writing style. Until now, you could either pick from one of the five presets, or create your own writing style.
With the Writing Style Library, you can choose from many more styles that I've created. Just add them to your library, and remove the ones you don't want. I'll keep adding new ones as well.
If you have any custom styles that work for you, reply and let me know? I'll be happy to consider adding them to the common library for everyone to use.
To access the library from within the app, click on Settings > Manage Styles > Discover More Styles
AudioPen can also write like you: If you're a Prime member, all you have to do is select the latest style preset that I've added (it's called 'Write like Me'), and paste a chunk of text that you've written in the past. AudioPen will then replicate the style of that text when it writes for you.