BookyAI Listen

A YouTube link says "Could not read that link". Check that the video is public and the link is a normal YouTube watch or share link. Age-restricted, private and member… › A recording failed. What now? Click "Try again" (the circular arrow) on the row. For M4A, MP4, MOV, AAC, AIFF, CAF and WebM files the button is not s… › Can I cancel or remove a recording? Yes. Every row has a cancel button (the X) while it is queued or running, and "Remove from the list" once it is done, f… › Can I listen while reading? Yes. Open the transcript and press play. Click any paragraph to jump to that moment; the current paragraph is highlight… › Can I paste a link instead of a file? Yes. The link field accepts a public YouTube video, a podcast RSS feed (an episode picker opens so you tick the episode… › Can I record directly from the microphone? Yes. Click "Record", talk, then "Stop and transcribe". The take is saved as a file on your computer and transcribed lik… › Can I remove the engine to free up space? Yes. In Settings, the Listen card shows the engine and its size on disk with a "Free up disk" button. It downloads agai… › Can I turn the citations off? Yes. In the book's Codex, on the Knowledge tab, untick "Cite the recordings in the text, as (Title, mm:ss)" (the same b… › Can I turn the clean-up off? Yes. In Settings, untick "Clean up transcripts with the AI after transcribing". You can still clean any transcript late… › Can I use Listen on two computers? Listen unlocks on every computer where your BookyAI license is active. With a single-device BookyAI license that is one… › Can I use recordings with a book I already created? Yes. Pick that book under "Save to" on the Listen tab before adding the recordings. Every recording in a book's Codex i… › Can I write a book from popular YouTube videos or podcasts? Yes, as research. View counts are a good sign of what readers want, and Listen turns a long video into a summary, key p… › Do I need anything else to use it? The BookyAI app with your BookyAI license activated, and a BookyAI Listen license. Transcription itself needs no API ke… › Does BookyAI Listen need a permanent internet connection? No. It checks the license periodically and you get a 30-day offline grace period. Transcription happens entirely on you… › Does BookyAI Listen upload my recordings anywhere? No. Files, folders, podcast episodes and microphone takes are transcribed by an engine that runs on your computer. Noth… › Does BookyAI Listen work on Windows and Mac? Yes. It is built into the BookyAI desktop app on both Windows and macOS. › How accurate is the transcript? On clear speech about 93 percent of words come out exactly; most of the rest are numbers written as digits instead of w… › How are the recordings used while writing? Whenever a book's Codex contains recordings that are switched on, the outline is planned from their summaries and key p… › How do I name or rename a transcript? A transcript is named after the file, or after the video's title for a YouTube link. To rename it, open the book or ser… › How do I rename a recording in BookyAI Listen? From version 1.9.15: on the Listen tab, click the Rename button (the pencil) next to the recording in the list, or next… › How do I write a book from my recordings? On the Listen tab, tick the finished recordings you want and click "Write a book from these". The wizard opens with tho… › How do YouTube links work, and are there limits? YouTube videos are not downloaded. Google's Gemini reads the public video directly and returns the transcript, using th… › How long does a transcription take? It depends on the computer. On a recent Mac with Apple silicon one hour of speech takes about 11 to 13 minutes; on a pl… › How much does each transcription cost? Nothing. Transcribe one recording or a thousand, the price of your license never changes. › I bought BookyAI Listen later (not with my order). How do I activate it? You received a license key by email (format BND-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), and it is also listed under Account in the members are… › I bought BookyAI Listen together with my BookyAI order. How do I activate it? You do not have to do anything. Open the BookyAI app on the computer where your BookyAI license is activated, go to the… › I closed the app while recordings were still in the queue. Did I lose them? No. The queue is saved. When you open the app again, unfinished recordings continue from where they were. › I got a refund. What happens to the add-on? The Listen license is deactivated automatically. Transcripts and books already on your computer stay on your computer. › I got the error "That key isn't a BookyAI Listen license key." You probably entered your main BookyAI key or an Audio key. The Listen add-on has its own key; check your purchase emai… › I have recordings but no book yet. Can I use BookyAI Listen without creating a book first? Yes, from version 1.9.15. On the Listen tab, under "Save to", choose "Listen library (no book yet)" and add your record… › I just bought it and it is still locked. What do I do? Purchases can take a minute or two to arrive. On the Listen tab, click "Check again". Make sure you are on the computer… › I see "Starting the transcription engine" for a long time. The first start after a download or an update can take a minute on slower computers. If nothing changes after a few min… › I see "This BookyAI Listen license was revoked or its subscription ended." The monthly or yearly subscription was cancelled or a payment failed. Renew it and the tab unlocks again by itself, or … › Is there a length limit? MP3, WAV, OGG, Opus and FLAC files have no practical limit; they are processed in ten-minute pieces, so an eighteen-hou… › My long recording shows up as several rows, "part 1 of 6", "part 2 of 6" and so on. Why? Recordings longer than about three and three quarter hours are stored as parts of up to three hours each, so that every… › Something else is not working. Restart the app first (the queue and every finished transcript are saved). If the problem remains, contact support with… › The app says it cannot verify my license but I am online. Click "Retry connection" on the unlock screen. If it persists, your network may be blocking the license server; try ano… › The book quotes something that is not in the recording. The AI writes from the transcript text, so check the transcript first: a misheard name or number in the transcript ends… › The engine download is stuck. Check your internet connection and firewall, then add the recording again; the download resumes by itself. › The row says "clean-up skipped". Is the transcript lost? No. The transcription finished and is saved; only the AI clean-up failed (usually the AI engine was unreachable or out … › The transcript is in the wrong language or is gibberish. Pin the spoken language in Settings and retry the recording. Very noisy audio or music with vocals also gives poor resu… › The unlock screen says "BookyAI Listen runs on the computers where your BookyAI license is active. Activate BookyAI here first." Listen follows your main BookyAI license. Activate BookyAI on this computer first (Settings, or the license screen), th… › What does a finished transcript contain? Paragraphs with time stamps like [12:34], a summary, key points, quotable lines with their minute, and chapters. At the… › What does the AI clean-up do? It removes fillers ("um", "you know"), false starts and repetitions, fixes punctuation and paragraphs, and adds the sum… › What happens if I cancel my Listen subscription? Every transcript you already made stays in the Codex of the book it was saved to, and the books written from them are y… › What is BookyAI Listen? BookyAI Listen is a paid add-on for the BookyAI desktop app. It turns recordings (audio files, video files, podcast epi… › What is the difference between "My recording" and "Research source"? It tells BookyAI whose words a recording holds. "My recording" is your own podcast, talk, interview or voice memo: the … › What is the difference between "My recording" and "Research source"? It tells BookyAI whose words a recording holds. "My recording" is your own podcast, talk, interview or voice memo: the … › What is the difference between monthly, yearly and lifetime? They unlock exactly the same features. Monthly ($27) and yearly ($197) work while active; lifetime ($297) is a one-time… › What is the difference between the Standard and Fast models? In Settings, under "Transcription model", Standard (the default) gives the best accuracy. Fast is about twice as quick … › Where do I find it? Open the BookyAI app (version 1.9.14 or later) and click "Listen" in the sidebar. If you own a Listen license, the stud… › Where do the transcripts go? At the top of the Listen tab you choose the target: a book, a series (shared by every volume in it), or "Any recording"… › Where is the transcript in the Codex? Open the book or series, then the Codex. The entry is labelled "Recording", with the file name and the duration. Like a… › Which export formats are there? TXT (plain text), DOCX (Word), SRT and VTT (subtitles and captions). Open the transcript and click the format you want. › Which files can I add? Audio: MP3, WAV, OGG, Opus, FLAC, M4A, M4B (audiobooks), AAC, AIFF and CAF. Video: MP4, MOV and WebM (the sound track i… › Which languages are supported? 99 languages. The spoken language is detected automatically per recording. If detection picks the wrong language (for e… › Why is something downloading the first time I use it? The first transcription downloads the transcription engine one time (about 249 MB for the Standard model, 77 MB for the… ›