Notes from the Likta team

Short articles on voice-first productivity, multilingual transcription and how teams use Likta in their day-to-day.

Productivity May 2026 · 4 min read

How voice-first workflows save teachers five hours a week

Most teachers we talk to spend between four and seven hours a week typing notes, lesson recaps and emails to parents. Voice-first workflows can give a large chunk of that time back.

The numbers are consistent: people speak three to four times faster than they type. For roles that involve a lot of communication — teaching, consulting, support, journalism — the gap between thinking and writing is one of the biggest hidden drags on the day.

Where the time actually goes

A typical workflow for a secondary school teacher looks like this: prepare a lesson, deliver it, then in the evening try to remember what was said and type it up as a recap for absent students or as a reference for next year. The second pass — the typing — is where most of the time disappears.

Voice-first tools flip this. Instead of typing a recap from memory in the evening, the teacher records the actual lesson while delivering it, and a structured document is generated automatically. The evening shrinks from 45 minutes to a five-minute review.

Why structure matters more than transcription

Raw transcripts are not very useful. A 45-minute class produces about 6,000 words of unstructured text. Nobody reads that. What teachers actually need is a structured summary: key concepts as headings, examples as sub-points, takeaways at the bottom.

That is the part where modern language models add real value. Transcription has been a solved problem for a few years; structuring is where the productivity gain lives. Likta is built around that distinction — the document, not the transcript.

Languages May 2026 · 3 min read

Why a phone call still beats a fancy app

Most productivity tools assume users are comfortable with apps, accounts and onboarding flows. For a large part of the world, that assumption is wrong — and a phone call wins on every metric.

When we started talking to potential users — teachers, rabbis, podcasters, consultants — a pattern emerged. Almost everyone could describe their ideal workflow in five seconds. Almost nobody wanted to install an app to get it.

The hidden cost of installing an app

Installing an app sounds trivial, but it carries a real cost: find it in the store, install it, accept permissions, sign in, allow notifications, find your way around the UI. For a tool you might use a few times a week, this is more friction than the original problem.

A phone call has none of that. Everyone has a phone, everyone knows how to dial a number, and the interface is a single button: speak.

When the phone is the right interface

The phone call is not always the best interface — sometimes you want to upload a file, sometimes you want to manage your documents from a browser. Likta supports both. But for the core act of capturing voice, the phone wins almost every time.

Our most active users are teachers, lecturers and small business owners who would never have downloaded an app. They dial a number while they walk, while they teach, while they think out loud. The output appears in their Drive. That is the entire workflow.

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