A51 is my first Android. In my environment, I make voice notes all day long as I drive about my business, then transfer them on my computer, where I listen to them while working there entering information into various programs: time & mileage logs, QuickBooks, Outlook, etc. It is very inefficient to have to try to transcribe directly from the phone.

How would I 1) make a one- or two-tap access to be able to record a voice note on the A51, then 2) transfer them to the computer for transcription. I freely admit my ignorance here. If there is a way to record a voice note that will automatically be transcribed and saved as a file I can transfer to my computer or emailed to myself, that will be even better.

My old Blackberry gave me a two-tap access to record a note, something I could do with barely a glance at the screen, and then the desktop software automatically connected to the BB and mapped a drive to it, so I wrote a tiny batch file to move my voice notes from BB to computer very simply. All it required was a double-click on an icon on the desktop. As obsolete as BB technology was, it provided very easy--that is few-step--ways for me to do the things my particular business requires. And as exciting as the whole graphical world of the Android/iPhone is, my business needs do not benefit from the bells & whistles; in fact that, is largely a distraction; I need the phone to be able to feed information to me while at the computer where all the relevant business applications reside.

 

I found that Samsung has the Samsung Voice Recorder. It works fairly simply, although there is no simple way to transfer the MP4 files to the computer because the newer Androids apparently no longer support MSC (mass storage class, that is generic file system connection), only MTP/PTP (media transfer protocol). But that got me halfway there.