Cogi is an interesting productivity tool that records your phone conversations and can transcribe your calls into text. Cogi calls your cell or landline, you answer it, then Cogi connects you to a third party. The call gets recorded in a MP3 format so you can listen to the call later, or share it with coworkers. Instead of having to take notes during the call, you just highlight parts of the conversation you would like to have transcribed.
This is a paid service and costs $29.95 a month, which gives you 1,000 minutes to record and 30 minutes of transcription to text. Each additional minute of transcription costs 99 cents.
There are several useful applications of this tool. If you are having an important conversation with a client or partner, it may be very beneficial to have the information recorded in audio and text. Since it could take hours to type out everything that was said, this could be a good time and money saver. The transcription was very accurate when I tried it, which suggests it is transcribed by a person rather than a computer.
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