Odia: a classical language with a script of its own
Odia (Oriya) is one of India's classical languages, written in a distinctive rounded Brahmic script with an inherent vowel and many conjunct consonants. Its curved letterforms and dialect range make it a hard target for generic, English-first transcription tools.
The Odia script's rounded shapes come from centuries of writing on palm leaves, where straight lines would split the leaf. Like other Brahmic scripts it carries an inherent vowel on each consonant and fuses consonants into conjunct clusters, so spelling and speech diverge in ways a letter-by-letter system mishandles. Hearlog transcribes Odia from the audio with Google Gemini, matching sound to the word an Odia reader would write.
Odia also has real dialect range — the standard Cuttack-Bhubaneswar speech, the western Sambalpuri variety, and coastal forms differ in vocabulary and rhythm. Hearlog captures the variety that was actually spoken, then lets you summarise the transcript or translate it to English, all saved in one note.