In-Document Transcription
Start a live transcription directly inside the editor — record and transcribe without leaving your document.
Sometimes you want to add a voice transcription in the middle of a document you're already working on. Instead of switching to the Voice Capture page, you can start recording right inside the editor. A live transcript block appears at your cursor position and fills in as you speak.
Starting an inline transcription
Open a document
Open any document in the editor — either an existing document or a new one.
Position your cursor
Place your cursor where you want the transcript to appear in the document.
Click the microphone button
Click the microphone icon in the editor toolbar. A live transcript block is inserted at your cursor position and recording begins automatically.
The transcript block
The transcript block is a bordered section inside your document with:
- A header showing "Live Transcript" with a pulsing red indicator and elapsed time
- Live text that appears inside the block in real time as you speak
- Auto-scrolling that keeps up with new text as the block fills
The block is visually distinct from the rest of your document so you can easily see where the transcription starts and ends.
Controls
While recording, Pause, Resume, and Stop buttons appear at the bottom of the transcript block. These work the same way as the standalone Voice Capture page:
- Pause — Temporarily stops recording without losing progress
- Resume — Continues recording from where you paused
- Stop — Ends the recording session
Context-aware accuracy
When you start an inline transcription inside a document that already has content, Opisense passes the surrounding text as context to the transcription engine. This helps improve accuracy for domain-specific terms, names, and jargon that appear earlier in your document — so the transcription is more likely to get specialized vocabulary right.
This happens automatically. You don't need to configure anything.
When recording stops
Unlike the standalone Voice Capture page, inline transcription keeps the raw transcript in place as part of your document. There's no upload or AI cleanup step — what you see during recording is what stays in the document.
You can edit the transcribed text manually afterward, just like any other text in the editor. Select it, retype sections, or reformat it however you like.
Completed blocks
After recording stops, the block changes to a "Transcript" label with the total recording duration. A collapse/expand toggle lets you hide the transcript text to keep the document tidy while preserving the content.
Collapsed blocks show a "Show transcript" button. Click it to expand the text again at any time.
Only one recording can be active at a time across all of Opisense. If you're already recording on the Voice Capture page or in another document, the microphone button in the toolbar won't start a new session. Stop the active recording first.