I agree with everything in this post; I want to listen to more academic work in audio formats but find the process quite unsatisfying.

Either I find my attention drifting, or I’m switching between apps to try and capture the essence of something I’d like to come back to later.

I’m hoping that things like Momento help get us closer to the ability to capture information from audio sources, but this would need to be built into ebook readers or the operating system itself, in order to be more broadly useful.

It’d also need to be more reliable with respect to the quality of the machine learning transcription. At the moment it’s just useable, and requires a bit of interpretation.