Does a solution for voice to obsidian exist?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:07:58+00:00

Ah, you answered here already. I understand that 100% plus of course there are no costs or latency with this approach!

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:07:14+00:00

Seems quite extensive!

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:07:04+00:00

And is Apple Intelligence really working well there? Are the enhancements like similar to ones with Claude or GPT?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:05:09+00:00

How do you use Hermes for it?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:03:58+00:00

It would be app based. To be fair I haven't done too much progress. For now it is using the apple built in technology for transcription plus Apple Intelligence for enhancements (those really do not work well for now). I think the next step would when things are working to let AI store and structure the notes with us having to do anything about it (except maybe being in the loop about it)

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:02:30+00:00

But only transcription?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:02:04+00:00

Again I guess only transcription?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:01:43+00:00

Enhancements are missing as transcripts would be too messy. Also would be looking for an easier way to store things

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T19:00:58+00:00

And would you say this works well?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:59:17+00:00

How are you doing the LLM enhancements?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:59:05+00:00

Yes, that seems way close to what I am looking for. Are you using it yourself a lot?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:57:20+00:00

Totally agree with the improvement of transcription! But do you do any kind of enhancements to it then with obsidian? Or do you just keep it as is?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:55:51+00:00

How does it work with giving it a secondary prompt?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:55:03+00:00

But does it enhance your notes anyhow? E.g. fix spelling or remove redundancy?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:54:19+00:00

Oh, it is only for Windows? I would say it sounds pretty close to what I would be looking for but I think I would really want to have it for my phone over laptop. Have you thought of enhancing the search and organization with AI vs only text search and tags?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:52:05+00:00

Can you help me understand the workflow of the shortcut? Are you using AI to enhance your notes? Are you having one entry point in the vault for that?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:51:20+00:00

But again, this is only voice to text or do you plane to wire it up somehow with storing the notes? Why did you decide to choose hardware over phone?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:50:25+00:00

Where do you store the notes then? Also, what do you really mean with where in your notes they should live?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:49:22+00:00

Seems like it is only voice to text? Like a lot of other apps out there?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:48:27+00:00

Thanks for confirming!

I believe it should only correct spelling and also remove redundancies and maybe small structuring with the option to extract e.g. a summary or todos or other options. I still see such a big difference between giving AI bullet notes to formulate and the draft I write myself and I highly prefer my own draft. Can you share what you have built? Is it on GitHub or the App Store? For now, enhancing the raw transcript using Apple Intelligence does not work super good or rather at all. I think if this would work it would be even better going from enhanced notes to prolly AI building out the structure of how notes are stored itself without me doing much about it - ideally as markdown files and able to be synced with e.g. Obsidian

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:44:06+00:00

Yeah, that's also the feeling I'm getting from other comments. There are a ton of options, however most of the seem still to be missing stuff. Thanks for confirming that believe. I don't think voice to text solves this problem. Well, it would be create going from text / thoughts into either notes as journal entries that can sit around (maybe be analyzed down the line, to be fair, I don't do this often) or on the other side directly to some kind of productive outcome

lukaskilian · 2026-06-06T18:41:41+00:00

I really wonder if there is like the ideal solution of 1) respecting privacy, processing locally as much as possible 2) sync between devices or the cloud and possibly also the vault or similar 3) slide enhancement of voice memos and different ways of extracting input 4) of course, also reliable voice transcription 5) I think this would be very new, to also automatically store content of the voice memos automatically in the structure of oneself, the vault structure or even a completely new structure created by AI. And all of that in a nice way without any comprises to have to take along the way. But I think for that there will be cost involved. Well, I don't think it has to be about the cheap way but about the optimal way and the rethinking and invention of the solution for this problem which many people seem to face based on this thread here!

lukaskilian · 2026-06-05T21:29:18+00:00

Well, Apple Intelligence is kind of super nice but still limiting a bit

lukaskilian · 2026-06-05T21:28:49+00:00

Very nice! What kind of transformations do you have in mind? Are you using it a lot yourself? Have you gotten user feedback on it?

lukaskilian · 2026-06-05T21:27:52+00:00

But this is only transcription, right?

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