Recorder

Google LLC

About this app

Recorder brings the power of search to audio recording. Meetings, lectures, band practices, family memories — anything you want to save and listen to later. Recorder automatically transcribes and labels what you record so you can easily find the parts that matter to you.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent at recording, but a bunch of software locks for stuff it should be able to do, namely, can't do any imports take advantage of its incredible capabilities. Current bug: Location for your recordings are saved, and you have the "suggestion" to search by location at the search bar. Problem is, it actually just looks for the "name of the actual location", which doesn't pop up. Should be a trivial fix if any of you want to get around to it.

I used this recently to see if I could get a recording of a work meeting to share with someone who couldn't make it. It works ok, but until I set my screen timeout to keep the screen awake, it kept stopping. If there's a way to not have it stop recording when the screen goes to sleep, I didn't find it. Transcript: A speaker who paused was commonly misidentified as a new speaker, and some text by people with accents was just gibberish.

I plead, have a 1.25x speed option. Google Drive has that option when playing MP3 files so it would only make sense for the Google Recorder app to offer the same. Also, have an option to save these files as MP3 files. Lastly, have an option to merge 2 audio files. I fear that using the pause may dysfunction during battery saving mode. It's just easier to start a new recording sometimes.

What's new

• Generate summaries for shorter and longer recordings than before
• Transcribe recordings in Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish on Pixel 6 or newer devices
• Enable HE-AAC new audio format