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"Any Other Comments?" May Be the Most Ignored Question Online. Ask This Instead
In one Dutch panel, only 3.6% of surveys got an answer to the final 'any remarks?' box. Why the catch-all question fails, and 6 sharper questions to ask.
Apoorv Tamrkar · 15 min readVoice surveys
Can Google Forms Record Audio? No. Here Are 3 Workarounds That Actually Work
Google Forms has 12 question types and none records audio. 3 workarounds for voice answers, compared on steps, sign-in, phone support and cost, as of 2026.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readVoice surveys
How to Collect Voice Recordings Online From Many People, With Just a Link
Browser recording works for 96.72% of web users, so you can collect voice recordings online from a link. Consent wording, formats, storage and file naming.
Shivam Singh · 18 min readVoice surveys
Form Drop-Off by Question Type: 30% of Quitters Left at the First Voice Question
On an 18-question form, 16% of people who reached the first voice question quit there, and 14% quit at a file upload. Taps and short text lost under 1% each.
Shivam Singh · 13 min readVoice surveys
Forms Are Interrogations. What If They Listened?
The average checkout asks for 11.3 fields and 98% of sites show generic error messages. Why forms feel like interrogations, and what changes when they listen.
Apoorv Tamrkar · 15 min readVoice surveys
Multilingual Forms: Let People Answer in Hindi, Tamil or Any Language They Think In
Only 43.63% of Indians have Hindi as a mother tongue, and far fewer type it well. Three ways to run a multilingual survey: translate, any script, or voice.
Shivam Singh · 16 min readVoice surveys
Your Open-Ended Survey Answers Are Thin Because Typing Is Hard
Phone respondents type about 36% less than desktop ones in open questions. Why typing cost thins open-ended survey responses, and 6 evidence-backed fixes.
Apoorv Tamrkar · 16 min readVoice surveys
How Long Do People Talk When a Form Asks a Question? A Median of 38 Seconds
We measured 396 voice answers: a median of 38 seconds for an English open question, 62 in people's own language, and 10 for reading a sentence aloud.
Shivam Singh · 13 min readVoice surveys
Voice Surveys Get 2.5x Longer Answers. Most Lose the Gain to Drop-Off
Voice survey answers run 2.5x longer than typed ones, but drop-off cuts the total gain to 8%. How to collect spoken answers without an app and keep people.
Apoorv Tamrkar · 17 min readVoice surveys
Voice vs Text Questions: Which Gets Skipped More? The Bigger Leak Was Lost Recordings
Optional typed questions were left blank 6.5% to 9.8% of the time on our forms. Required voice answers went missing 11.6% of the time, until we fixed uploads.
Shivam Singh · 14 min readVoice surveys
We Analysed 6,274 Voice Answers. 71% Were People Reading Scripts Aloud
71% of 6,274 voice answers on our form builder were script reading, not opinions. What our data can say about voice vs typed answers, and what it can't.
Shivam Singh · 14 min read