WhatsApp and Telegram · nothing to install, nothing to open
Your account page sets what Scribe does everywhere. Most conversations are not most conversations, though: you want Chinese with one supplier, French with your accountant, and nothing at all in the group that sends forty notes a day.
So you can tell Scribe what to do from inside the conversation itself. Type one word as a message, the way you would type anything else. Scribe answers with a single line and never transcribes the command.
Start here. Send /scribe in any chat. It tells you
what applies there right now and lists every language you can switch to. Send
/scribe-help for the full list of commands.
| Command | What it does, in that conversation only |
|---|---|
/scribe | What applies here now, plus the language menu |
/scribe-help | Every command, every language |
/scribe-off | Stop transcribing here. Nothing else changes |
/scribe-on | Start again |
| The notes you receive | |
/to-fr | Post them in French. Any language in the list below |
/to-off | No translation here: the words exactly as they were spoken |
/to-default | Back to the languages on your account page |
| The notes you send | |
/sent-zh | Transcribe your own note into Chinese, under it, so the person you sent it to can read it |
/sent-off | Do not transcribe your own notes here |
/sent-default | Back to your account page setting |
Replace the code in /to- or /sent- with any of these. It is the same
list as on your account page, and /scribe prints it in the chat whenever you forget.
Tick Transcribe the voice notes I send on your account page and every note you record gets a transcript posted under it, in the conversation. The person you sent it to can read what you said without playing anything: useful when they are in a meeting, and useful when they do not speak your language.
/sent-zh, /sent-ko,
and so on. A note already in that language is posted exactly as you spoke it, never rewritten./sent-off, without touching the
others.When both of you use Scribe. You each get one transcript, not two. If you translate into Chinese and they also read Chinese, one Chinese transcript appears under the note and that is all. If they read English instead, both appear, one each, because both were actually needed. On WhatsApp the two sides recognise it as the same note; on the other platforms this only works inside a group you are both in.
/scribe-off at you changes nothing./to-fr is a command,
ok /to-fr then is a message and is treated as one./to-zh and Scribe's one-line answer. There is no hidden channel.The Message yourself chat is its own switch on the account page, Transcribe my own notes to self. Tick it and a note you record there comes back as text under itself, which turns the chat into a dictation pad. The per-conversation commands work there too.