Whisper to Obsidian - Super easy voice notes to text

hello in this video I want to share how I've supercharged my use of obsidian the Knowledge Management platform with the help of open ai's whisper platform and a community plugin it's amazing to be able to speak to my mobile phone and get accurately transcribed voice notes into text and that really helps me keep an active Journal as well as take notes on the fly so let's take a look at how that works I'll open up obsidian which I'm running by the way in blue sty an Android emulator on my computer here and let's go add the whisper um plugin can go to settings and choose Community plugins and look for whisper I'll pick this one by Nick Danilo and install it now note that as with all use of open ai's whisper API I do need to have an API key so I need to register for this open a developer platform and it does cost a tiny amount now that I've installed whisper and enabled it I'll go to options and first of all enter my openai API key I'll delete it after this video so you nobody else can use it there are a few other options that we could look at here an endpoint that might change over time model that might change over time you might have prompts um for example adding correct spellings or maybe you'd ask the transcription to translate what you're saying so you will speak one language and get the output in another language you can specify the language of the input so I'll put it as English but you could put it as something else and there are some handy functions where you can also save the recordings so whenever you speak to obsidian do you want to save that audio file somewhere I'll turn it off to save space and do you want to save that transcription in a separate file well I'll always be saving it in my daily note or my impromptu not so I'll put these off so all I needed to do is just have my open a API key and now I've got that enabled so I can go to one of my test notes here