There are many note-taking apps, ranging from Apple Notes and Google Keep to Obsidian and Notion. Most of them use text as the primary input method and provide features around it. Developer Louis Pereira’s AudioPen app focuses on converting your voice to neat text-based notes.
AudioPen is a web app, so don’t expect a native mobile experience. But this means it’s pretty lightweight and available across platforms. The interface is bare bones. You can tap or click on the mic button to start recording. Once you hit the stop button, the app transcribes the audio using OpenAI’s APIs — namely Whisper for transcription — and converts it into clean text.
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Pereira said that he started building the app as an experiment …








