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Banafo Voice Recorder – the best new voice recorder app for Android

March 29, 2023March 23, 2023 by john

The best voice recorder app is now available on Android for Free – Banafo Voice Recorder!

Our development team has been hard at work to bring the Banafo experience to mobile, expanding on functionality from computer via the Banafo | Transcribe & Record Meetings web extension to your Android phone with Banafo Voice Recorder application.

Now you can make audio recordings directly from your mobile Android device – anytime, anywhere.

Voice notes or conversations, and reminders, new business ideas, solutions to present issues – just tap the Record button.

The Banafo Voice Recorder app for Android is completely Free and can be downloaded via Google Play now:

Speech to text API – the #1 budget transcript generating solution

March 29, 2023March 17, 2023 by john

Banafo Speech to text API is now available for your own solutions.

Already familiar with the power of Banafo and what it can do? You are recording your meetings, getting auto generated transcripts for your conversations and taking advantage of the Banafo browser extension to record your work related meetings via Zoom, Teams, Meet?

Now, you can use the power of our language models for some of the most budget friendly solutions out there!

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Auto recording meetings. Banafo extension – the best tool for the number 1 job

March 29, 2023March 14, 2023 by john

Work more efficiently with auto recording

Banafo web extension makes your work quicker with even more advanced features.

Now including a new toggle option to make anyone’s work even faster and easier – auto recording.

Enable the option via the extension menu for all whitelisted websites that you visit frequently. All your web meetings will be recorded automatically when they start.

You do not have to do a manual click to start a recording. It all happens automatically and your meeting is recorded and uploaded to your Banafo account, where our advanced ML speech-to-text algorithms take care of business and provide you with a transcript of your conversations.

You can get the newest version from here:

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Global search across recording transcripts in all Conversations

March 29, 2023March 7, 2023 by john

Everyone is used to search things across multiple entries of the same type – be it your email, phone call log, contacts, files and so on.

If your work relies in doing things quickly and efficiently, why waste time by manually looking for something that you can just type in an input field and get instant results for?

Banafo is a powerful web platform that combines all your web meeting conversations in once place. Business meetings over Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Dialpad are recorded and uploaded to your Banafo account.

A transcript is auto generated for each of your recordings and all of this information is neatly organized in Conversations that you can access and manage through the Banafo dashboard.

7 best Otter ai alternatives for meeting recordings and transcriptions

March 28, 2023February 24, 2023 by john

If you spend all your day in phone calls, in online web meetings, there is a high chance that one of the tasks at hand for someone is to be taking notes.

You have researched well enough and are thinking of using Otter ai alternative, you have most likely decided that you are not going to waste time with taking meeting notes.

Are you still wondering what other note-taking automation tools are out there? Or maybe you would like to find out a more suitable alternative to Otter.ai that better fits your business?

We can answer both of those questions.

Annoyingly tedious Speech To Text inference Steps

March 28, 2023July 28, 2022 by Zoa

Did you ever wonder what it takes to produce the Banafo Offline Speech to Text Transcripts ?

This is how we do it behind the scenes:

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem#/media/File:Chimpanzee_seated_at_typewriter.jpg

While the results for English were pretty good, we were unable to keep up training the monkeys for other languages so here is how we do it nowadays (please note that we omit some proprietary parts that we consider our trade secrets 😉

Way too many parts are needed and as the experience tells us, when you try it with enough voices, accents, compression formats something eventually will go wrong in every single one of them.

Best 6 open source Speech To Text frameworks

March 28, 2023July 28, 2022 by john

An overview of the opensource speech to text frameworks and toolkits available in 2022. Where to get them, how hard are they to use and what languages do they support out of the box.

We at Banafo are constantly trying newer and better approaches for the automatic speech recognition, a crucial component in providing our users with the highest quality transcripts on the market.

The frameworks in this article are all tools we use or used, they mostly build on top of Pytorch or Arrayfire, this article is just a small overview of the pro’s and con’s, more detailed instructions on how to set configure or use them will be provided in future articles.