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Realtime Transcription for Obsidian

Real-time speech-to-text plugin using SenseVoice-Small, supporting Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese with auto-translation, AI summarization, and text polishing.

Best For

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Key Use Cases

  • Voice note-taking during meetings or lectures
  • Multilingual transcription and translation
  • Dictating drafts of articles or notes
  • Quickly capturing thoughts without typing

Pros

  • Supports multiple languages including Cantonese
  • Built-in auto-translation and AI summarization
  • Text polishing feature improves output quality
  • Real-time processing

Limitations

  • Accuracy may vary depending on audio quality and accents
  • Requires microphone permission and possible network for AI features
  • Unofficial plugin not reviewed by Obsidian staff

Tags

realtimetranscriptionspeech-to-textmultilingualaisummarization

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