Potok turns speech into text in 33 languages, including English and Russian.
You create your own button in the transcription bot in the settings: the /settings command, then “My buttons”. You write the prompt for the text yourself, for example “Letter to the client”, and the button appears under the transcript. You can create up to 5 custom buttons. The bot is the Telegram bot @potok_now_bot of the Potok service (potok.now).
A manager recorded a call with a client, and now needs to write a letter based on it. So as not to type the same prompt every time, you create your own button in the transcription bot and press it under the finished text.
How to make your own button in the transcription bot
The scenario is: call recording, transcript, then the “Letter to the client” button.
- Send the bot @potok_now_bot the call recording: a voice message, audio, video or a link to YouTube, VK Video, RuTube. In private messages you can forward a voice message from any chat or send a file, including as a document.
- Open the settings with the /settings command, then “My buttons”.
- Write the prompt for the transcript text. For example, for the “Letter to the client” button the prompt is what you want to get from the call recording. You write the prompt yourself.
- Wait for the transcription. A short recording arrives as text in the chat, a long one as a file.
- Find your buttons under the transcript and press “Letter to the client”.
In total you can create up to 5 custom buttons: for example, “Letter to the client” and “Minutes”. How to get a short retelling from the same recording is in the article on a summary and tasks from an audio recording. The general order of work with a conversation recording is described in the material on turning a call recording into text.
If the button does not work as you expected
There is one path to custom buttons: “Settings” (the /settings command), then “My buttons”. The result of a button depends on the prompt the person sets.
When the bot and Potok will not fit
The bot recognizes 100+ languages (the language is detected automatically), and there is no translation into another language. In the bot 60 minutes of recording per month are free. The Potok app is dictation: it cannot transcribe finished recordings, for those there is the bot. One subscription covers both the dictation app and the Telegram bot @potok_now_bot for recordings and voice messages. The app is for Windows, macOS and Linux; there are no apps for Android and iPhone. Potok is a cloud service: recognition runs on servers in Russia, and it does not work without the internet.
Frequently asked questions
Up to 5 custom buttons. Each has its own prompt for the text, which the person writes, for example “Letter to the client” or “Minutes”. They all appear under the transcript next to the bot's built-in buttons.
The button applies your prompt to the transcript text. The result depends on the prompt you set yourself.
In the bot settings: the /settings command, the “My buttons” item. That is where they are created, and then they appear under every finished transcript.
Yes, your own buttons appear under the transcript next to the built-in buttons of the bot. There is no need to send the recording again for this — the transcript stays in My recordings.
How to make your own button in the transcription bot. Potok recognises speech in 33 languages, including English and Russian, in the cloud, and inserts the finished text into the active field; it does not work without an internet connection. Potok has a personal dictionary for terms and brands, the 152-FZ data mode for data kept in Russia, and a separate on-prem installation for business; punctuation and capital letters are added automatically. Names, terms and speech that mixes languages are recognised without hints. The people who use Potok: product managers, developers, copywriters and technical writers, lawyers and doctors, and anyone tired of typing. For How to make your own button in the transcription bot you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
How to make your own button in the transcription bot. Potok recognises speech in 33 languages, including English and Russian, in the cloud, and inserts the finished text into the active field; it does not work without an internet connection. Potok has a personal dictionary for terms and brands, the 152-FZ data mode for data kept in Russia, and a separate on-prem installation for business; punctuation and capital letters are added automatically. Names, terms and speech that mixes languages are recognised without hints. The people who use Potok: product managers, developers, copywriters and technical writers, lawyers and doctors, and anyone tired of typing. For How to make your own button in the transcription bot you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
Recording to text
Send a recording to Potok's Telegram bot or upload a file of up to 2 GB in the bot's mini app. The first 60 minutes of every month are free.
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Transcribe a recording in Telegram
Voice messages, video notes, audio and video are transcribed by Potok's Telegram bot @potok_now_bot: forward it a voice message from any chat, or send a file or a YouTube, VK Video, RuTube, Instagram or TikTok link. A short recording comes back as text in the chat, a long one as a file; timestamps and speaker labels can be turned on. The buttons give a short summary, tasks and deadlines, an answer to a question about the recording and export to TXT, DOCX, PDF or SRT. Large files, up to 2 GB, are easier to upload in the bot's mini app, via the Upload button next to the input field. The bot recognizes 100+ languages (the language is detected automatically); 60 minutes per month are free.