It took a few minutes to process it in Audacity- more the first time while I figured it out. - Select a pause in the recording. - Effect -> Noise removal, get

It took a few minutes to process it in Audacity- more the first time while I figured it out. - Select a pause in the recording. - Effect -> Noise removal, get noise profile - Select everything. - Effect -> Noise removal - Effect -> Change tempo, 100% change? (don't remember exactly, but whatever is still understandable/not boring to you, try on a smaller chunk before processing everything.) - Effect -> Truncate Silence. (don't remember what settings I used, but to your taste.) ... Then manually trimming out repeats, useless questions, extra stuff took some time... it was also how I studied. Then more so by playing it back and fixing my notes. I first picked Audionote (android and ios) because typed text is time-coded, so you can skip to that part of the recording by tapping on the text. But I ended up not really using that feature and using it as a dumb recorder and text editor. It did a good job of automatically adjusting the sound level though. (Compressor. You can also do this in Audacity.) Also it was nice that I could have the mic (at the bottom of the iphone) pointed at the prof, and the screen turned 180 degrees facing me. ... I wish there was a better tool that: - During playback, skips pauses. (by audio level threshold.) then easily pick more areas in the recording to skip. (Please just non-destructive editing/filtering though; just build a list of times to skip during playback.) - High quality time compression playback. Variable, even up to 3x perhaps. (without increasing the pitch like audionote.) - AND synced the notes with the recording. - (Even better would be for reliable voice to text, and automatic trimming/outlining... but at some point it may deter grey matter processing.) Perhaps there are better tools now?