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I don\u2019t drive much, though these days I drive more than I had for a couple decades. This recent driving has, as I mentioned in a blog post here two years ago (\u201cMessage to Self: Lessons, conundrums and opportunities in voice-first EV interfaces\u201d<\/a>), helped me catch up on the role of audio interfaces in a mode of life that had become unfamiliar to me. As a result of the gap, I leapfrogged right into fairly mature CarPlay, which is Apple\u2019s system that lets your phone become the car\u2019s interface. The experience has been interesting, informative, and sometimes even useful. I\u2019ve managed to come up to speed on various ways that sounds, including voice commands, have gained utility in digitally mediated vehicular activity. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve touched on numerous aspects of this topic in blog posts and my This Week in Sound email newsletter. Throughout, the one thing that really seemed (note the past tense) to be missing, at least for me, was an easy, dependable way to record a voice memo. I won\u2019t go into the details of the benefits of recording voice memos here; if you don\u2019t find voice memos useful, more power to you, and if you do find voice memos useful, then you know what I\u2019m talking about. I will add that with the recent rise of affordable excellent voice-to-text transcriptions (my primary app for this is MacWhisper<\/a>, though I use the rev.com<\/a> service on occasion), voice memos are more useful than ever. <\/p>\n

As it turned out, CarPlay was (again, note the past tense) really lacking when it came to voice memos. Apple\u2019s iOS operating system even comes with an app literally called Voice Memos (and in a recent update, this app came to include automatic transcription, though I find MacWhisper to be superior), and I use it every day at my desk and when I got for walks. However, unlike Messages and Maps and Podcasts and other such apps \u2014 even many non-Apple apps, like YouTube Music and Libby and Hoopla \u2014 Apple\u2019s Voice Memos app has zero presence in CarPlay. I\u2019ve mentioned this functional void routinely on social media, and I\u2019ve summed up my frustration and confusion in the article linked to above. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not alone. A search for variations on \u201cCarPlay voice memo\u201d (and for its Google equivalent, Android Auto) yields numerous online discussions about makeshift fixes, such as leaving yourself a voice mail or texting yourself a voice recording. None of these options, I\u2019ve found, has been particularly useful. The best I\u2019ve been able to do is to use Apple\u2019s Shortcuts feature to create a button on my phone\u2019s home screen and lock screen to record right into the Voice Memos app \u2014 which works well, except it means I still have to use my phone, physically, which is not great when you\u2019re driving a car. <\/p>\n

And then, out of the blue, a person named David Kellas added a comment to my two-year-old blog post, saying he had gone ahead and made the app himself. \u201cI wanted an app like this for ages,\u201d he wrote in his post<\/a>, \u201cso built it for everyone to use without any subscription.\u201d And it\u2019s true: the app, which is named Auto Memo Recorder, costs just $1.99, a one-time fee. And it does what it says.<\/p>\n

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I installed Auto Memo Recorder on my iPhone (an iPhone 13 Pro) and I have been trying it out. It works well. It\u2019s nothing fancy, just pure function. I generally am more of a touchscreen user than a voice-activation user, so my habit so far is to have the app on the home screen, which makes for a two-click or three-click process. I click on the app, and then I click to start recording. The third click is if CarPlay already has an app open (like Maps or Plex or YouTube Music), which actually is most of the time. <\/p>\n

Right now, pretty much the only thing that, for my purposes, would improve upon what Auto Memo Recorder offers is for it to sync recordings via iCloud or Dropbox. I\u2019ll keep using it, and I\u2019ll report back on any other observations I have.<\/p>\n

Auto Memo Recorder is available through the App Store<\/a>. More details at invisiblestorm.co.uk\/auto-memo<\/a>. The website mentions \u201cAI enhanced applications,\u201d but the only apparent AI in Auto Memo Recorder is that it will transcribe the voice recording to text. The above image is a screenshot from the app\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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