u/ChromaForge

I have maybe eight years of stuff in Evernote. Text notes, web clips, PDFs, all of that is fine and searchable. The thing I never figured out was the voice memos.

Over the years I dumped dozens of meeting recordings and random voice notes into notes thinking I would deal with them later. Later never came, and none of it was searchable or useful when it is just an audio attachment stuck inside a note. I would remember that I recorded something important, search for it, find the note, and then have to listen to fourteen minutes of audio to find the one sentence I needed.

So the real problem was not the tool, it was that I had been hoarding recordings I never turned into text. The notes I actually reuse are the ones I can search. Everything still trapped in audio might as well not exist.

I ended up spending a Saturday running the whole audio pile through vomo ai batch by batch, turning each recording into a transcript with speaker labels and a short summary, then pasting the searchable text back into my notes. The audio stays on my phone, the useful part lives with my notes. That was the actual fix.

If you have a pile of audio sitting in your notes, figure out your transcription plan before it gets bigger, not after. That was the part that cost me a whole weekend and I did not even see it coming.

Has anyone else dealt with this, and what did you actually use that worked?

Still a bit raw about the shutdown honestly. Sora was my default for hero clips and I genuinely miss it. But two months in I have a clearer picture of what actually fills which gap.

For longer coherent shots, Veo 3.1 is the most direct replacement I have found. The temporal coherence on 10 second clips is impressive and the native audio is something Sora never had. Access is still limited so I cannot run everything through it.

For day to day short clip work, the 6 to 8 second product and mood stuff, I have settled on Kling 3.0 for anything character driven and seedancev2.ai for the image to video part. I use the web ui because the credit model fit my volume better than another monthly subscription. Generation is quick enough that I do not have to plan a whole day around it.

Looking back, the short clip quality gap was smaller than I realized while I had Sora. I think Sora spoiled me on the long coherent narrative stuff but most of my actual deliverables were always the shorter clips anyway.

The thing nobody has properly replaced is the 15 second prompt driven narrative clip that Sora 2 could hold together without seams. Veo 3.1 gets closest but the style is different. That specific thing is still missing.

I have been a daily Kling user since 1.6 and it is still my default, especially for anything with a person where the face needs to survive more than a couple of seconds.

But i hit a wall last week on a specific thing. A slow orbit around a small object, in my case a ceramic mug for a friends shop. Kling kept wanting to either rotate the mug unnaturally or invent a handle on the back that was not there. Tried it maybe ten times with different prompt phrasing.

Out of stubbornness i ran the same photo through a couple of other generators to see if it was me or the model. Most had the same handle hallucination. One got through most of the arc without inventing extra parts, the glaze pattern held consistently for about 150 degrees before it started to drift a little at the far edge.

So my current take, Kling for anything character or face driven, no contest. For clean object orbits and product turntable type shots, it is worth keeping a second tool around for the days Kling gets stubborn.

Which one nailed the orbit is Seedance. I had it open in another tab alongside the others, the only one of the bunch that did not add a phantom handle.