Audio player for transcribing and taking notes of meeting recordings

Question

I am looking for a macOS audioplayer that helps me to relisten to my recorded meetings and at the same time make notes.

The player should

• support global hotkeys (without requiring the app to be in the foreground) for rewinding a few seconds, pause, and play
• and also allow adjusting the playing speed (e.g., 1.5x).

I have tried several solutions yet: VLC, iTunes, QuickTime. But none of these fulfilled all of my requirements.

Currently, I am using otranscribe.com which is tedious to use as it only supports some very basic formatting (e.g., not bullet points) in the text section. Because of that I am using GoogleDocs to write my notes which requires skipping back and forth between tabs.

Do you have any suggestions? A free solution would be nice but I am also open for paid/commercial solutions.

Answer 1

I finally ended up using VLC player which provides (non-global) shortcuts for the required functions (e.g., ␣ for play/pause, ⌘+⌃+← for a very short backward skip).

I then used BetterTouchTools to allow invoking these shortcuts globally by adding new keyboard shortcuts that use the action send shortcut to specific app to forward the custom-defined global shortcuts to VLC.