Listening Cherry 23 – AudioNotetaker and the bar of chocolate

Imagine that you have a recording ten minutes long. Easy. Now imagine that this recording is a bar of chocolate ten minutes long. Not so easy, but bear with me.

The bar looks very uniform in flavour: it is the same colour along its entire length. But under the chocolate coating, someone has told you that there are many different flavours of filling dotted along the length of the bar out of sight, and in unknown locations. Somewhere inside the bar there are flavours you like: orange, strawberry, nougat, hazlenut, brazil nut. And flavours that you don’t like: fudge, apple crunch, praline. Naturally, you want to find and eat the flavours you like, and you want to avoid the ones you don’t like.

Now imagine further (sorry to push you) that there are traces of these flavours are on the surface of the bar, which is going to move past you. As it passes you will be allowed to lick the surface of the bar so that you can detect each flavour as it goes by. The bar will go past you at a fast pace, once only. You cannot control the speed, you cannot stop the progress of the bar. You will have to remember where the nice bits were so you can find them again, and relish them at leisure; you will also have to remember where the nasty bits are so you need not waste your time and appetite on them.

Difficult uh?

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to cut the bar – as it goes past you – into reasonable-sized chunks, and colour-code your favourite flavours as they pass by so that you can find them later? And colour-code the unliked flavours so that you can discard them?

At this point we need to withdraw from the chocolate fantasy – AudioNotetaker cannot do this for chocolate.

But it can do it for audio recordings! Section and colour-code the nice bits in real time – they appear as separate audio chunks that you can label and return to and savour at your leisure!

More serious evaluation here. And you can download a free trial here.

Image from here.