Bernie whips around his desk with his morning voice on. No coffee was spilled. Some pencils needed to be sharpened.

With Dylan(9) at the gate of his primary school, planning to get a cupcake for mom's birthday.

Amazed to see how transcripts from https://otter.ai fold directly into https://roamresearch.commade a two minute clip inside Otter and as I drove into 4G connectivity, my spoken audio uploaded to Otter in the background.When I sat down at my laptop 20 minutes later, I watched the transcript of the audio clip drop into my Roam Research knowledge graph. This elegant connectivity of services will be a big enhancement to my daily notetaking and a major boost to my work with Open Education Resources. As you can hear from one of my Topgold Audio Clips, I want to give props to JavaScript developer David Vargas and to supporters like Jordan Burton and Dave Prout who made this happen.For John Tierney (one of the five regular people who read my blog), this is Otter, JavaScript, and Roam Research all connecting complementary pieces of technology to provide a unified system for processing. This sort of service would be a valuable part of the toolkit for field researchers. And when integrated to part of a daily review process, these connected services would help ensure that no good ideas will get lost.

I like https://otter.ai and https://roamresearch.com and think Liam Daly https://twitter.com/eolai would too.Let's hashtag this episode as #digped (for digital pedagogy) because it's something I think ought to be considered by all teachers. I'm talking about live transcription of ideas that may connect to a story arc or that may become a publication. I like methods that allow you can to simply talk and appear to be more intelligent than you are. I like things that allow you to listen and then to harvest thoughts by connecting ideas that you didn't think related to one another. And I do these things using https://otter.ai to talk where my words--like the ones I'm speaking now-- become words on the screen, in addition to words in your earbuds. Otter.ai does that. For you, Liam Daly aka https://twitter.comeolai, https://otter.ai would take the lovely journey you made around Ireland during a cycling painting tour and would make ideas you express in the comfort of your own studio into segments. Then they could become chapters which you could fold into a book. It's a pretty easy and straightforward process. You already have notes that are logically organized by time, or by venue, or by the color of the sky, or by the color of a wheel, or by a bicycle adventure. And you already have these concepts inside Evernote, or inside storage locations with pictures. Your word pictures are ready to be expressed. https://otter.ai can take what you say about the pictures you have or the thoughts that you've considered and make them into easily readable text. I don't know why https://otter.ai is so good. I just know that what what you're hearing me speak now can be transcribed with better than 90% accuracy by the https://otter.ai transcription service. So I'm all-in as an advocate of the https://otter.ai transcription service. And I actually think I should pay for more than 60 minutes a month, but I don't use the full free tier plan that they give me. As I start a new school year, I want to connect https://otter.ai to Microsoft Teams for the learning program that we have at the Limerick Institute of Technology. That's what I want to do. So how about you? Where are your notes kept? In the case of a conversation I had with Liam Daly during a Dalkey Open session on Zoom I learned that Liam has a lot of things inside Evernote. I've got a lot of things scattered in different systems--OneNote Google Drive, and now Roam Research. If I have the discipline to take what I'm thinking about, like right now, I'm thinking about digital pedagogy, it's a hashtagged piece of content, part of a database I have inside of Roam Research--if I take what I'm saying now, produce the text, and then also upload the audio file you're listening to into Roam Research, a year or so from now, when I'm talking to colleagues about how they do their business, of producing information people can read, that people can listen to, that people can view, I can say, "Hey, what about this idea? Take the notes you have in your mind, or the notes you have in front of you on a screen or in a paper and talk about them in a way that someone wants to listen. Give it a little little structure, give it a story arc, give it a certain kind of hero's journey with what you're saying. And then let the surface that the artificial intelligence. Take what you're saying and make it into text." And then perhaps illustrate it with screen grabs or with simple words or with pull quotes. What I do now is I make these episodes available free in a syndicated way you can listen to on Spotify and any other network. You can also go to the Spreaker app and see images corresponding to everything I talked about. It is all part of the Topgold Audio Clips that I make. You can see more about what I do with https://otter.ai and with https://RomeResearch.com and with digital pedagogy by following Topgold on all good social networks. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

I've written about a rigorous process of making, creating, and sharing content: https://www.insideview.ie/2020/07/the-rigor-of-getting-seen-read-and-heard-digped.html

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I AM TRYING to validate a long-standing relationship I've had with Google Keep because I want to be able to dictate notes and have them appear on my calendars. This has become more important now that my calendar rotates into view on our Amazon Echo Show.I'm trying to lock Google Keep into my daily workflow because I think it offers the lowest demands on my laptop, mobile phone, and tablet. It's simply text (or tick-off lists) that I can pin on my devices. I could go all-in with Teams or Slack, adding services that offer exceptionally rich tracking of tasks, but I need a simple note-taking tool that offers me audio inputs and Keep's simple and elegant functionality has served me well. More: https://www.insideview.ie/2020/07/i-keep-my-to-do-post-its-.html

You are in my pocket being recorded on the Sennheiser Memory Mic as I walk with my dog on the 14th of July, thinking about checklists, and automating routines. 0:35 Why Checklists? 1:02 Checklists on screens.1:50 Making A Checklist Skill.2:50 Using Handheld Checklists.3:04 Sketchnoting Checklists.3:49 Listener Checklists.How are you doing your checklists? Do you have one?4:44 Feedback @topgold Transcribed by https://otter.ai and blogged at https://insideview.ie

While testing the ability of the Sennheiser Memory Mic (the white rectangle in the cover shot) to produce high quality text from speech, I let https://otter.ai listen to this clip and then it produced the following transcript.[Transcript rendered by Otter.ai in 29 seconds.]Hi, it's Bernie Goldbach Topgold Audio Clip 530. Today we're exploring how to make Lane One content. I teach in a creative multimedia program. I have digital animators, game art designers, Creative Media students, all looking at content that I produce. It's important I think, to make four different lanes for the content that they see. And the first lane is simple text. I'm using a Sennheiser wireless memory mic right now. It's just clipped on to the color of my shirt. I'm talking to you in a garage. So it's probably echoey. That's okay. I'm just trying to see with this work. Can I talk to you about the concept of my four lanes of academic work, and then have the memory might give you lane number two, which is the audio as well as author the speech to text Engine give you lane number one. For the record, lanes three and four are video. There's a high definition live video stream that's in lane four. And then that same video is normally cut down, perhaps with some call outs added for a third lane for rewind. So, how does this go on for you? Can you hear what I'm saying? If so, that means my lane two is well established. Can you go to the show notes of this episode, and see the unfiltered uncorrected transcript rendered by otter. If that's more than 80% accurate, it's a good deal. In that it saves me time to produce an outtake of what an entire hour long conversation would be like, if you threw show notes in outline form. That's slaying one simple Text explanation of what might be in the other lanes. If you're hearing this Okay, that means the Sennheiser memory mic, set on high sensitivity recorded me well clipped magnetically to my collar. Well done Sennheiser. As a footnote, I've been having some issues with the memory mic. I'd say one out of every five recordings I make are corrupt. They simply don't synchronize to my Samsung Note nine. need to fix that, perhaps by reinstalling the app or by cleaning up the phone and giving the app more space to work. You can see what I do if you follow the handle top gold on all good social networks. That's me, even listening to a top gold audio clip about how I make lane one of my content available for Creative Media students. If you have comments on this, you know where to find me. Top code on good social networks. Bye for now. Transcribed by https://otter.ai and blogged at https://www.insideview.ie/2020/07/continue-to-be-impressed-by-otter_ai.html

Bernie Goldbach explains how he is using Airtable to guide virtual internships. See the YouTube clip for a deeper dive into the project: https://youtu.be/Y4A_LsNyj0s