Solved: Record audio from Appsheet

Marlene_William · 08-21-2019 01:13 AM

Is it possible, or could it be possible, to record an audio or voice memo directly from an appsheet screen in the same way that one can take photos and have them attached to the record?
I need to record inspection data in the field but there are far too many variables to make into fields (Time constraint for entering). If I could make voice memos attached to the record it would allow the office to have access more easily than is currently the case.

Aleksi

We have this functionality in our ToDo list but I’m afraid we don’t have any specific timeline for that.

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Aleksi

We have this functionality in our ToDo list but I’m afraid we don’t have any specific timeline for that.

Marlene_William

Thanks very much for the info

Jenner

I want to use this feature as a receipt when I advance money to my employes.

How can we vote for you to prioritize this feature ?

DarenJanes

I'd like to see this functionality added as well. Thanks

shalom

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awightman

Good afternoon, Aleksi:

How soon will this functionality be live?

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Adam Wightman

awightman

Good afternoon, Aleksi:

How soon will this functionality be available with AppSheet?

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Adam

Brennan_Morrow

Any progress on this item?

Steve

Nope.

Aleksi

You’re welcome

Fabian_Weller

Hi @Marlene_Williamson You could record an Audio with an external App and upload that mp3 file to your App. Using the Column Type “File”.
You can refer to my sample App “Files”.
https://www.appsheet.com/portfolio/549987

Even though the Filename extension will change to “.txt”, it will open the mp3 file without any problem.

(@praveen we have been talking about that changing of the Filename extension.)

Marlene_William

Thanks Fabian…I’ll keep that in mind although it might be beyond my users capabilities! Perhaps a bit of training would sort that

Sebastian1

Hi,
I’ve the same request.

Thanks.

Nir_Yacoby

recording audio from within the appsheet will enable my apps to compete with Whatsapp… The whole thrust of Whatsapp is recording and sharing audio. This is such a helpful functionality!

Aleksi

@Jenner You would need to open new post as a feature request. This post’s category is just “Questions”.

Brennan_Morrow

Has an ETA for this functionality come forward?
I think it is an amazing feature, and matches up the the workorder template very well for a number of uses. I think one user has suggest its a vioce memo feature that given whats app a huge strength in communications. I think the same thing here.
@Aleksi

Adam_Roberts

Hi @Aleksi, Has this feature made it’s way onto the dev list yet by any chance?

Francois_Bornet

Hi,
I agree with what was said earlier.
This feature is a big miss for Appsheet…

SkrOYC

Could you tell us which kind of usage scenarios you have in mind?

Kirk_Masden

I have an app that is used by language users (and, in the future, teachers). Being able to record audio would be helpful in my app if it were coupled with playing capability.

karimmc

Here is an actual scenario in which this feature would be very helpful for us right now.

Our company works with rural workers in underdeveloped villages in Central American countries, mainly fishermen and farmers. Thanks to Starlink and AppSheet we have managed to step up their production and inventory processes, hand to hand with our company.
However, in the vast majority of the cases these people barely know how to read and don’t know how to write. We have solved this using a very simple and intuitive design in our AppSheet apps but there are still some cases In which they need to leave a description, note or communicate anything to our team via the app. For this we used the solution @Fabian_Weller proposed, but it is not the most practical way.

I know this is a very very specific case but I’ve seen the same need in my wife’s work, in education, working with children that don’t know how to write yet and they need to record an answer or activity from the child.

My point is, this feature will solve a lot of scenarios in which the user finds it hard to write at that specific moment.

@Aleksi

Farhan_Bashir

It is highly requested to please convert your to-do-list into our wish list , please add voice recording asap

karimmc

I think this feature would be super helpful.

shalom

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Wojciech_Redman

I need this feature to, please add this asap 😁

karimmc

Would be super helpful in many different scenarios, and it doesn’t have to store whole audiobooks, it could have a maximum recording time of a minute or a minute and a half and it would be very helpful for it to have the capability of playing the recording in app too.

SL_Leo

+1. A highly wanted features that would take our App to the next level.

Karimmc2

You could vote for this feature request in here:

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Feature-Ideas/Audio-Recording-Audio-Playing-Field-Type/idi-p...

Or in any of the feature requests similar to this topic:

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=location&q=audio%20reco...

Swoopy

Before it's possible, alternatively, if you just sick of typing, you can use voice-keyboard already availabe on every device. It works really great and you also can make copies of the saved text when needed (you can't do this with sound files). Don't forget to set column type to 'long text'.

Geneieiux

Yes please add functionality long overdue!

Geneieiux

Any updates here?

CaseySpotOn

I would love to have this too. I'm building apps for internal employee training content, and this would allow me to have sales reps do a quick audio recording from their device for their sales pitch.

Retool does this pretty great already today:

https://retool.com/components/microphone