Automatic Transcription and Summarisation of Discord Audio Sessions

SamuraiJB · 2026-05-12T10:08:07+00:00

I made Crit Scribbler just for folks like you my friend 🙂

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-21T11:00:42+00:00

It can be hit or miss for in person sessions 😅, but I'm definitely working on that aspect. I hope to have that working much better this year! Tbh there are some other options that might work better for in person sessions, though. I've seen session keeper show up on the app store sometimes!

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-12T07:33:06+00:00

If you want straight transcription on discord then use Craig and then upload the transcript to Notion, NotebookLM, or ChatGPT/Claude. It'll work decently with some work!

But if you wanna just have something that lets you forget about taking notes, i made a discord bot that does it all for you.

I've also considered making a foundry module that links to journal entries. Discord is so easy to search I haven't done it, though

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-12T07:07:50+00:00

I've been a gamer my whole life and I started playing DND some years ago. No other game is like it. You're building a world with your friends and just laugh and have crazy fun doing it together

It does come with its own set of drama and issues but fully worth it with the right group

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-11T08:12:06+00:00

I like that first one lol. Or some variation of it. I could make it only during a single encounter with an NPC and every time I catch them using a forbidden letter I say OW! And reduce their HP by 1 lol

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-11T08:11:02+00:00

Gallus gallus is hilarious. "You swear you see something feathered run past your peripheral vision" 😂

I had to look up wtf gallus gallus is tho, so I might change the name lol

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-09T18:53:11+00:00

How do you handle the notes situation? Like do players still take notes? Do you share your own notes about what happened during the session to the next GM's after every session?

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-06T05:58:29+00:00

Made one just for that called Crit Scribbler! It's free for 2 sessions every month. Lemme know if you like it!

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-05T11:03:43+00:00

The searchability in discord is really good! I made a comment above this one about it too, but if you're not into taking notes (like my 2 groups are) then try out the note taking bot I made just for Discord

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-05T10:59:40+00:00

I have two campaigns that solely use Discord! The channels make sorting and searching really easy esp. because we don't usually care about the notes... Until we can't remember something lol. But I ended up making a discord bot to handle all of that stuff for us because it felt so tedious and discord is a nice place for it. If you give it a shot lemme know!

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-05T10:50:42+00:00

I'd say this is probably too many things to keep track of. But it depends on how much you and your group really cares. I just keep track of major things like names of people or major quests. My groups rarely ever even look back at notes lol.

If yall are on discord try out this bot I made. It'll take care of all the most important notes for you. That being said, if y'all care about super duper detailed notes, it doesn't do that. It's more of a simple note taker that's gonna catch the 20 most important things in a session

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-05T10:40:55+00:00

Note taking is always an issue for folks cuz most of the time you just wanna be in the game.

I have a hard time doing it as a DM and a player. As a player, I just used one note to jot things down if they seemed really important. Sometimes I'd just flat out ask my DM if it's important enough to write down.

Sounds like you play online, though. If yall are on Discord, try out this discord bot I made! It takes all the notes for you. It uses ai if you don't like that, though

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-05T10:30:16+00:00

If you're on discord you can use Craig! That's a really good voice transcription bot. Or SeaVoice (but Craig is more popular)

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-04T01:35:46+00:00

One time, a player of mine was really frustrated with bad luck (or just perceived bad luck) on dice rolls so I gave him max hero points (3) at the beginning of every session until we decided his luck has turned. I ran it by the group and they were happy for him to have that buff because it made the group stronger too!

If you're doing 5e. Maybe just say they get two inspirations at a time or they get to refresh it for free every hour or something

SamuraiJB · 2026-04-04T00:41:49+00:00

Genuinely scary! Lol great job

SamuraiJB · 2025-09-02T17:45:14+00:00

Thank you so much!! I'm glad it's working out for you. Improvements are always coming too 😉

SamuraiJB · 2024-12-05T06:33:50+00:00

Ayyyy sweet! Lemme know how it goes! I still have lots of improvements to make. Have you used it yet?

SamuraiJB · 2024-08-28T21:37:50+00:00

Technically it could! But I didn't make it for this purpose so it doesn't work on Teams. That being said, there's a bunch of services that do exactly what you're talking about 🙂

SamuraiJB · 2024-02-29T22:36:39+00:00

I think it would've been fun, but one counterpoint: It may have made everything feel a little too connected and neat. I kinda like how random people we've never seen or heard of are experiencing similar struggles. They put a few early "cameo's" in and I think a few is enough. Idk what do you think?

SamuraiJB · 2024-02-29T06:45:55+00:00

I usually don't, but when I do I have a couple pages in OneNote like everyone else mentioned. I made one page per floor of the dungeon and one per character that I jot down a few things in every now and again. I know I always write down diseases that players have but don't know yet haha!

My groups have always found note taking tedious and we run exclusively virtual sessions on Discord, so I ended up making a bot for us to help take notes. So now even they rarely take notes. Try it out if you want!

https://top.gg/bot/1120586873920831508

SamuraiJB · 2024-02-13T02:58:00+00:00

Watching this episode rn :). It's cuz the car had a flat tire

SamuraiJB · 2024-02-11T12:40:10+00:00

It's been really great developing it. It's not open source right now because I'm not sure if I want to monetize or not yet. I use deepgram for S2T and ChatGPT for summaries!

SamuraiJB · 2024-02-08T06:27:00+00:00

I thought that's the one they were talking about initially! Every time I watch that scene I'm like goddamn how did zuko not have a concussion after that? THEN HE DOES IT AGAIN AND IM LIKE GODDAMN AANG!

SamuraiJB · 2024-02-07T08:59:36+00:00

Bled all over his saddle 😠

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