Feature Requests

Hi Heidi team, I'm a clinical psychologist and I use Heidi daily for transcribing psychotherapy sessions. Overall, the tool is excellent — stable, accurate, and very well designed. One feature that would make a significant difference for mental health professionals is speaker diarization (i.e., separating therapist speech from patient speech in the transcript). In psychotherapy, being able to clearly distinguish who said what is essential for clinical supervision, case formulation, and self-evaluation of therapeutic technique. Without diarization, the raw transcript is still useful, but it requires considerable extra effort to identify speaker turns — especially in moments of brief exchanges or when both speakers use similar phrasing. For clinicians who review sessions for quality improvement, training, or peer supervision, having labeled speaker turns would be transformative. This would also open up possibilities for automated metrics (e.g., therapist talk-time ratio, turn-taking patterns) that are increasingly valued in evidence-based psychotherapy research and training. Thank you for building such a great product. Adding diarization would truly make Heidi the gold standard for mental health documentation. Best regards

I quote..... 'initially occurring approximately one year ago with spontaneous resolution' I'd rather this were worded more colloquially eg 'this happened about a year ago and improved without treatment'

i would like to switch the style of dates- from american month/day/year to day/month/year

As an adult female clinician, Heidi will somewhat frequently confuse my voice with my client's voice, especially if they are also an adult woman. While this is understandable, it would be great to be able to "code" in our voice as the clinician, so Heidi can better differentiate. Note: I understand that Heidi is likely to pick up on more clinician-specific details in the note if the clinician is speaking consistently throughout the session, or if even brief personal narratives are shared. I will frequently start sessions with gripes about the weather, use short personal examples of implementing strategies with trying to cope or parent, speak more when I am working with younger clients to relate/connect, etc., so there are a number of situations in which Heidi will include things like "client was upset about the rainy weather and having to drive in it", "client reported succes with using a suggested strategy when working with their child", "client feels overstimulated with loud noises", and so on. Heidi being able to discern between clinician's voice (phrased as "therapist shared [for what purpose]") and client's voice (where phrasing would be consistent with "client was bothered by" type language) would be helpful for these instances. Thanks in advance for any consideration!

ability to test the microphone level in the app

I would like for it to use my voice and preferences when writing notes across all notes, not just for one template. For example, it writes "the patient understands". We never make assumptions about the patient. Instead we write "the patient expresses understanding". This seems small, but can be torn apart in a courtroom. Also, I never write in the passive voice. I would like for it to have a box that I can provide this feedback, and it will save my feedback and preferences across all notes when writing.

Some sort of obvious recording now indication rather than just the little red button on the top right. Something like a sine wave or it looks like a voice recorder that moves only when you are recording. Currently, the sine wave moves when you are using the microphone, even if it's not recording.

As a female therapist it would be very helpful if I could “prime” Heidi to recognise my voice to avoid confusion when I have a session with another female

Voice identification- Prioritize patient voice when using headphones in online sessions - I often end up with a summary of what I said vs what the client said ( which is unhelpful in psychology) Toggling between the different mic options on top right makes no difference as I have tested it.