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Application Workshop

Workshop 26/11: Recording and Transcribing with the Dictaphone application

Date: 26 November 2025
Time: 12:30 – 13:30 (CET)
Location: Online, via Zoom

Join us for a hands-on workshop where we introduce Dictaphone – a new UCloud application that allows researchers to securely record and transcribe interviews directly from their own devices. 

In this session, you will learn how to: 

  • Use Dictaphone to record interviews and conversations directly from your laptop or smartphone. The recordings in Dictaphone are streamed in real time to the secure UCloud back end – ensuring that no data is stored locally on your device, making the app ideal for working with sensitive data.
  • Transcribe recordings automatically within the same workflow. Dictaphone has built-in transcription functionality, enabling you to easily convert speech to text and streamline your interview process.
  • How to make the most of Dictaphone — with tips, extra features, and real research use cases.

Target audience: Researchers across all departments, students, those interested in AI. 

Technical Level: Basic to Intermediate – beginner-friendly and requires no technical background. Basic familiarity with UCloud will be helpful. If you’re new to the platform, we recommend signing up for the Getting Started with UCloud workshop on 19 November

Sign up for the Dictaphone workshop

About the Dictaphone application:

Dictaphone is a new application being introduced on UCloud this November. It allows researchers to securely record and transcribe interviews and conversations directly from their own devices – making the interview process easier and more time-efficient.

Key features: 

  • Record directly from your device
    Use Dictaphone to capture interviews and conversations straight from your laptop or smartphone. The user interface is simple to use and optimised for viewing on both small and large screens.
  • No local storage – full data security
    All recordings are streamed live to the secure UCloud backend. Nothing is saved on your device, which means you can safely handle sensitive data without worrying about your data being stored in an unsafe location.
  • Built-in transcription
    Dictaphone includes built-in transcription functionality, enabling you to easily convert speech to text and streamline your interview process.
  • Speaker recognition
    The app can distinguish between multiple speakers in the same recording, making transcripts easier to read and analyse for interviews or group discussions. 

The Dictaphone app is designed for researchers across all disciplines who record audio as part of their work. It supports different workflows – whether you prefer to transcribe after each question in your research process or after the full interview, you can use Dictaphone. You can also switch languages, making it ideal for both Danish and international projects. 

Keep an eye on updates here or in the UCloud app catalogue to be the first to know when Dictaphone becomes available.

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Application Supercomputing UCloud

New app: Manage your next event with Indico

Indico is a robust open-source platform for event organization, archiving, and collaboration, ideal for managing conferences, workshops, and scientific meetings.

Key features include:

  • Event Management: Indico allows you to organize a wide range of events, from small seminars to large conferences. It supports the entire event lifecycle, including registration, abstract and final paper submission.
  • Hierarchical Protection: Indico uses a hierarchical protection scheme that allows for different roles and protection levels within events. 
  • Integration with Collaborative Tools: Indico integrates seamlessly with tools like Zoom, enhancing the productivity of web-driven meetings. 
  • Document Management: Indico facilitates easy upload and retrieval of presentations, papers, and other documents.

Indico has been implemented on UCloud and is ready for use by all UCloud users.

For more details, visit UCloud docs for full documentation.

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Application Interactive HPC Supercomputing

New App: Apache Kafka 

Users of DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud can now access Apache Kafka, a high-performance event streaming platform designed for managing real-time data at scale. 

Kafka deployments on UCloud support multi-node configurations, enabling production-grade distributed logging, stream processing, data integration, and publish/subscribe messaging systems. 

Students and researchers can use Apache Kafka to collect, process, and analyse large volumes of real-time data – for example, streaming data from lab sensors, social media, or web clickstreams. It’s especially useful for building data pipelines in projects involving machine learning, IoT, or real-time analytics, enabling reproducible and scalable research workflows. 

For more details on the Apache Kafka application, visit UCloud docs for the full documentation.



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Application Supercomputing UCloud

New app: Speech Analyzer – A New AI Tool for Dialogue Analysis

With growing demand for transcription/AI services on Interactive HPC – UCloud, Speech Analyzer has been added to the platform.  

Speech Analyzer is a specialised application built on top of Label Studio, optimised for dialogue analysis. It enables users to label, edit, and annotate speech transcriptions generated by the integrated Transcriber engine. It also allows you to share tasks with collaborators. 

Sign up for the free online workshop on transcribing and editing audio transcriptions with the Transcriber and Speech Analyzer apps takes place 22 May.

For more details on the Speech Analyzer application, visit UCloud docs for the full documentation.