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Really wish they let people save a transcript.

Agreed.

I love them doing accessibility stuff, and I can see this being useful for specific people in my life. But when I initially read the announcement I thought about using it to transcribe business meetings.

Obviously the accuracy of this won't be "court reporter"-levels, but for casual note taking it would be "good enough."

Google Docs has a voice typing functionality [1]. I used Soundflower [2] to send audio playback to a digital input device, and had Google Docs listen to this device. This worked "okay" for transcribing a blog post from a voice memo.

[1] https://qz.com/work/1087765/how-to-transcribe-audio-fast-and... [2] https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower

I think it has some privacy implications. Lot of people will feel uncomfortable if they feel their conversations are being saved in someone else's device or cloud.

This is a design problem. An important one to solve, but still, solvable.

I'll add that I'd feel MORE comfortable with just a transcript being saved than I would an audio file (which is what happens now). Deniability.

The issue is that recording without consent is illegal in many jurisdictions.

Auto-transcribing likely falls in a grey zone, because you could argue that it is being recorded before transcription (which is true).

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