audio-inbox

Turn a raw Whisper transcript into a clean, concise inbox note with provenance preserved.

When to use

• A new .md file appears in 0_Inbox/transcripts/.
• The user asks to “clean up this voice memo” or “process this transcript”.
• The user runs /audio-inbox explicitly.

Workflow

1. Read the raw transcript from 0_Inbox/transcripts/<filename>.md.

2. Detect language — de (German), en (English), ja (Japanese), or mixed. If mixed, use the dominant language for the concise version; keep the original in the callout.

3. Produce three outputs (same language as source):

   • Cleaned transcript — remove filler words (“um”, “uh”, “like”, “えーと”, “あの”), fix transcription/spelling mistakes. Preserve sentence structure and voice.
   • Concise version — what the note would read like if written by hand instead of rambled. First-person. No third-person summarization. No “Summary:” or “Overview:” prefixes.
   • Filename — no extension, no type words (“summary”, “note”, “transcript”). Content-bearing. Same language as source.

4. Write the note to 0_Inbox/<filename>.md (not in transcripts/ — that’s for raw input). Structure:

   ---
   created: 2026-04-17
   lang: en
   tags: [voice-memo]
   source: voice-memo
   audio-file: <path if known, else omit>
   ---
    
   <concise version as the body>
    
   > [!note]- Full transcript
   > <cleaned transcript, preserving paragraph breaks>

5. Delete the raw transcript from 0_Inbox/transcripts/. Provenance lives in the callout and in git history.

Rules

• Do all three outputs in the source language. If the transcript is German, the concise version is German, the filename is German.
• First person throughout. “I went to the park” — not “The user went to the park” or “The speaker discussed”.
• No summary / overview / notes on in the filename. Content itself names the note.
• Do not route. Write to 0_Inbox/ root. process-inbox handles PARA placement.
• Do not touch other pages. This skill is narrow. Cross-references happen in process-inbox.
• Preserve furigana syntax if Japanese content already has it (see obsidian-markdown).

Blocked cases

• Transcript is empty or unintelligible — leave the raw transcript in place, create a file 0_Inbox/_unprocessable-<timestamp>.md with a one-line note, so the user can decide.
• Transcript references a specific page that you can’t identify — still produce the note; cross-referencing is process-inbox’s job.

Verification

After running:

• 0_Inbox/<new-filename>.md exists with schema-conformant frontmatter and the callout.
• 0_Inbox/transcripts/<original-filename>.md is deleted.
• The body reads as written-by-hand prose, not a rambled monologue.