Potok turns speech into text in 33 languages, including English and Russian.
An old transcript is in My recordings of the bot @potok_now_bot: send the bot the /records command or press the My recordings button. All transcripts stay there, the storage period is not limited, and they can be opened again. The bot works within the Potok service (potok.now), and 60 minutes of recording per month are free in it.
Transcripts in the bot stay in the My recordings section, and the storage period is not limited.
Where to find an old transcript in the Telegram bot: the My recordings section
The bot @potok_now_bot puts all transcripts into the My recordings section. This is the history of all your transcripts: the list opens page by page, and any recording from it can be opened again. The bot keeps the transcripts on its own server and deletes nothing: the storage period is not limited, and recordings and transcripts are stored on servers in Russia.
You can open the section in two ways: with the /records command or with the My recordings button. The button is in the bot's reply to the /start and /help commands. More about what the bot accepts and returns is in the article about the Telegram bot for transcription.
| Service | Platforms | Free | Price | Payment from Russia | Where speech is recognized |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potok bot and web version | Telegram (@potok_now_bot, mini app inside the bot) | 60 minutes per month | 7 days: 249 ₽, 30 days: 449 ₽, one year: 2 890 ₽; included in the Potok app subscription | Russian bank cards, rubles | cloud, servers in Russia; internet required |
| KolerskyAI Whisper Bot | Telegram | the first 5 minutes | 69 ₽/15 minutes; 149 ₽/50 minutes; 490 ₽/200 minutes | rubles | not disclosed |
| Kontur.Tolk | Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android | not disclosed | — | rubles | servers in Russia |
| Speech2Text.ru | Web | 3 hours on sign-up | — | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Happy Scribe | Web | 10 minutes of AI transcription | $17/mo (Basic, monthly, 120 minutes); $29/mo (Pro, monthly, 600 minutes) | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Telegram voice message transcription | Telegram | without Premium, a few transcriptions per week; with Premium, no limit on their number | — | not disclosed | Telegram servers |
| TurboScribe | Web | 3 files a day, each up to 30 minutes | $20/mo (Unlimited, monthly) | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| SaluteSpeech Bot (Sber) | Telegram | free; voice messages, audio and video notes | — | not disclosed | SaluteSpeech cloud (Sber) |
| Notta | Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android | 120 minutes per month, up to 3 minutes per recording | $13.99/mo (Pro, monthly, 1800 minutes); $27.99/mo (Business, monthly) | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Video summary in Yandex Browser | Yandex Browser | free | — | not disclosed | Yandex cloud |
| Otter.ai | Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Desktop (Mac/Windows), integrations with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet | Basic: 300 minutes of transcription per month, up to 30 minutes per meeting, 3 imported files over the whole lifetime of the account, free forever | $16.99/mo (Pro, monthly billing, 1200 min/mo); $8.33/mo (Pro, billed yearly (the full year is charged at once)); $30/mo (Business, monthly billing) | not directly: dollar billing through international payment processors declines cards issued in Russia and Belarus (confirmed by independent Russian-language guides on dtf.ru and vc.ru; no official Otter.ai statement about blocking Russia was found, this follows from general payment system restrictions) | cloud, US servers (the company is registered in the USA); the exact data center is not disclosed on the pricing page |
How to find the transcript you need
- Open the chat with the bot @potok_now_bot.
- Send the /records command or press the My recordings button: the button is in the bot's reply to the /start and /help commands.
- Find the recording you need in the list. It is shown page by page, so if there are many recordings, flip through the pages.
- Open the recording: the transcript opens again. All transcripts stay in My recordings, and their storage period is not limited.
Where Potok will not answer this question
The Potok app is dictation: ready recordings are transcribed by the Telegram bot, so you need to look for an old transcript of a recording in the bot, in its My recordings section. One subscription covers both the dictation app and the bot for recordings and voice messages. Potok is a cloud service, recognition runs on servers in Russia, and it does not work without the internet. Answers to other questions about voice input are collected in the questions section.
Frequently asked questions
The storage period is not limited: all transcripts stay in My recordings and can be opened again. Recordings and transcripts are stored on Potok's servers in Russia.
Send the bot the /records command: it opens My recordings. A button with the same name is in the bot's reply to the /start and /help commands.
No. “My recordings” is the history of finished transcripts: any record from the list can be opened again, without sending the source file to the bot.
On the server where the bot runs: there it keeps the transcript texts and the history of records. Nothing of that is deleted, the storage period is not limited.
Where to find an old transcript in the Telegram 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 Where to find an old transcript in the Telegram bot you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
Where to find an old transcript in the Telegram 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 Where to find an old transcript in the Telegram 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.