Mote: voice notes & feedback

Mote: voice notes & feedback

Mote - fast, friendly voice messaging

What is Mote: voice notes & feedback?
Mote: voice notes & feedback is a Chrome extension designed for seamless voice messaging. Whether you're a teacher, student, professional, or anyone who needs to communicate quickly, Mote makes it possible. Integrated into Google apps like Docs, Slides, Sheets, Classroom, and Gmail, it allows you to add, record, and play back voice notes with ease. It also provides users a unique 'Motepad' recorder for direct voice recording from any website. Plus, Mote offers voice-to-text transcription in more than 20 languages, text translation, and a personal 'Motebook' to store voice notes for future use.
Stats
Users: 2,000,000+
Version: 0.5.5 (Last updated: 2024-03-28)
Creation date: 2020-06-28
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • alarms
  • storage
  • enterprise.deviceAttributes
  • activeTab
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 9.10M
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With Mote, easily add voice comments and audio content to documents, assignments, emails and forms.

Mote is integrated into Google Docs, Classroom and many other Google Workspace apps - for easy recording and playback. Mote also supports voice feedback within the Instructure Canvas SpeedGrader.

You can also create voice notes on any website, and share these as embedded voice notes, by using the Mote extension 'Magic Mic' recorder.

You can embed your mote recordings into apps like Notion and Google Sites, or share your voice notes as a QR code.

Mote supports transcription in more than 40 world languages, including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic.*

Mote for teachers: Ask students questions and provide feedback, quickly and with the feeling of human connection. Whether you're at home or in the classroom, Mote helps educators and students to stay connected.

Add voice comments within Google Classroom's Stream and Private Comments views, as well as within Google Docs, Slides and Sheets. Look for the Mote icon in comment boxes.

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User reviews
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These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Mote is easy and intuitive to use
  • Great for giving feedback and adding personalized audio notes on various Google platforms
  • Significantly saves time compared to typing
Cons
  • Limited number of free motes per month
  • Can slow down the browser
Most mentioned
  • Useful tool for teachers and educators
  • Convenience for leaving feedback on student work
  • Appreciation for integration with Google Classroom, Google Slides, Google Docs etc.
Recent reviews
by 김연규 김연규, 2023-12-04

As a dual language teacher, this app allows me to help ALL my students. I am able to record directions in English and Spanish and help my students in either language. This way students aren't all coming to me to ask, "What do I do?" Plus, it's so easy to use!
by Lorena Sublasky Lorena Sublasky, 2024-03-24

I spend a LOT of my time typing comments on documents: I supervise postgraduate students. I've explored a number of speech-to-text systems. Most of them fail when you use technical language in my field and generally become unusable for anything except generic colloquial language. Mote is the best I have found so far that does a good job of transcribing that manages the technical jargon of my field. It has really improved my productivity on providing detailed notes on documents. Another nice thing about Mote from a pedagogic perspective is that it presents my comments in two modes: an audio voice note and also a transcribed text. I find students respond very well to having both of these available. The voice note often conveys my supportive, friendly tone, suggestions, etc. The text version is available for them to reread and consider detail that I sometimes add by hand. Another great thing about Mote is that you can translate the text with a button click. I have a number of students whose first language is not English and it is useful for them to sometimes flip between the English and another language. There are a few things that I hope are integrated into the next version. Wish 1: Mote does a great job of transcribing what I say. But unfortunately, my exact words are often stream of conciousness, slightly disorganized, full of repetitions, ums and ahs (like any normal person's, especially when I am thinking on the fly). What I then have to do is to run a separate script to clean it up and rewrite the text transcription in proper English. It would be great if Mote had an option to "clean up" and "reorganize" the text version of the voice notes to present them in grammatical English while retaining the tone and jargon of the original. i.e. I want my original voice and then a cleaned up version of a transcript (I am not asking for the original voice note to be reengineered). Wish 2: When I put Motes in google docs (not in the comments) then it creates a URL to the voice Mote and inserts it into the google doc. Then I have to click on the link, get the text from Mote and cut-and-paste it into the Google doc. This is a hassle and so tend not to do this -- although I would (because Google Voice typing is just absolutely terrible). I think it would be great if Mote could put the text directly into the google document itself. Wish 3: Mote is still not great at names and acronyms (e.g. citations of journal articles or names of students -- some of whom have non-Anglo names and Mote isn't great at that). It also isn't good at producing names and homophones that have alternative spellings (e.g. Kelly, Keli, Cally, etc.) -- this is entirely understandable. I think it would be really good if I could define a list of common collocations, names, terms, acronyms that I use often in my work, then upload that onto my Mote page so that Mote can customize it's responses using those. Wish 4: I personally love using Google Docs and its my preferred medium of expression. But sometimes I do need to respond on a propietary document format such as MSword. In these cases, Mote exports from Google Doc as a link to audio in a comment and the original text is not displayed. I have to run a custom script to export the mote comments and reinsert them as text. It would be nice if there was an option to export the audio link as well as the transcribed text. Great tool, thank you!
by Mark De Vos Mark De Vos, 2024-03-21
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