audio log

Spoken diary entry

An audio log is a recorded spoken account, typically used to document events, observations, or personal reflections over time.

The term appears frequently in video games and science fiction, where characters discover audio logs left by others to piece together backstory: The abandoned station was full of audio logs from the crew.

In professional contexts, audio logs serve as verbal records in place of written notes.

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tape · narrator · first person · journal · diary · personal diary · playback · static · dead air · testimony · found · found footage · horror game · whisper · echo · memoir · captain · mission

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recording medium/format

audio logwritten record

transcript · silent film · vlog · text file · spreadsheet

permanence/formality of documentation

audio loglive broadcast

Transmission happening right now

real-time communication · casual conversation

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