Recently, WPS Office launched its AI voice transcription feature, which is enhanced by WPS AI technology and deeply integrated with WPS cloud documents, providing users with a faster, more accurate, and smarter voice-to-text experience. This new feature not only supports real-time recording and audio import for voice-to-text conversion but also enables translations between multiple languages, including Chinese and English, ensuring the integrity of recording files. Even if there is an unexpected exit during the recording process, users can return to the task and continue recording.

This is an AI voice note application I've been using recently—NotesGPT, and I highly recommend it to everyone! It has completely transformed the way I record and organize information, saving me a lot of time and significantly boosting my efficiency. Rather than calling it software, it’s more of an AI assistant that enhances productivity. Key features and advantages of NotesGPT: Accurate Voice Transcription: NotesGPT has exceptional voice recognition capabilities, with a high transcription accuracy rate, maintaining good recognition results even in noisy environments.

A Massachusetts YouTube creator named David Millette has filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using the transcription content of millions of YouTube videos without permission to train generative AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit states that OpenAI's AI products profit from the use of unlicensed and uncompensated training data, violating copyright law and YouTube's terms of service. Millette seeks over $5 million in damages on behalf of all potentially affected YouTube users.

Apple has released the developer beta of iOS 18.1, introducing AI call recording and transcription capabilities that allow users to tap the 'Record' button during calls to start recording and automatically generate a transcript after the call, which is stored in Notes. This feature is particularly useful for users who need to document important phone conversations, such as journalists or patients communicating with doctors. Additionally, this version includes natural language search in Photos, an email summary feature in Mail, and design updates for Siri. However, the AI-enhanced Siri features are expected to launch in 2025.

Groq has recently launched the Whisper Large-V3 model, allowing users to utilize the API in Playground or local projects to achieve speech transcription and translation functionalities. This model supports transcription in multiple languages with extremely fast processing speed, and it can translate other languages into English.