Seed to cup · Stage 03 · Produce
VOICE CUPPING & QC
Talk through the cup. The form fills itself.
Nobody wants to type into a laptop with a spoon in one hand. Record the session as a voice memo — Droptime transcribes it and extracts a structured, scored cupping form you review before saving. Structured QC without the friction that kills QC.
90 sec
Spoken session → SCA form
SCA
Standard & custom forms
Blank
When ambiguous — never guessed
Per lot
Score & descriptor trends
HOW IT WORKS
From table talk to structured record
Speak it like you'd say it to a colleague
“Acidity bright, maybe an 8; body’s a little thin, 6.5; tasting green apple and honey.” That sentence becomes numeric scores in the right SCA fields plus a descriptor list. Anything the AI isn’t sure about is left blank for you — a QC record you can trust starts with extraction that refuses to guess.
- In-app, mobile-friendly recording at the table
- SCA form: fragrance/aroma through defects and final score, plus custom forms
- Scores spoken on a different scale get normalized — with a confirm
Extraction
acidity 8.0 · body 6.5 · descriptors: green apple, honey · flavor: — (left blank: “couldn’t tell if you said 7 or 7.5”)
Attached to exactly what you tasted
Every session links to a lot, a roast batch, or a green sample at intake — so quality data means something. Those descriptors aren’t trivia: they feed blend-transition planning, replacement ranking, and the chat that drafts your label copy from real notes.
- Cup a production batch against the reference sample, tracked as such
- Sessions covering two coffees get split into two forms — prompted, not mangled
- Unlinked sessions allowed but flagged, so analytics stay honest
In chat, later
“Draft the tasting notes for the new Kenya for our label” → copy grounded in that lot’s actual cupping descriptors.
Trends that answer real questions
Is this lot fading? Did the profile change actually improve the cup? Are production roasts drifting from the reference? Score and descriptor trends per coffee and per lot — across roasts, across months — turn taste memory into evidence.
- Score-over-time per coffee across its successive lots
- Production consistency vs. the reference sample
- QC summaries for the team, drafted from the real records
QC trend
Colombia Huila: intake 86.5 → month 3 avg 84.75. Descriptor shift: red apple fading, cocoa rising. Consider re-cupping the lot.
MORE IN THIS MODULE
Everything else at the table
Review before save
The extracted form is a draft until you approve it. Edit any field; your corrections are the record.
Typed entry, always
Prefer the keyboard? Manual entry produces the identical record shape — voice is an option, not a requirement.
Low-confidence flags
Noisy room, crosstalk, espresso grinder in the background — shaky transcripts get flagged instead of silently trusted.
Phone-first capture
Record on the device already in your apron pocket. Audio is stored with the session for replay.
Descriptors that work for you
Cupping notes power blend flavor-impact predictions and replacement candidate ranking — QC compounds in value.
Your audio, your export
Original recordings are included in the one-click full export, alongside the structured forms.
FAQ
Fair questions
You review every extracted form before it saves, and low-confidence audio is flagged up front. The extraction rule is strict: ambiguous fields are left blank for you rather than filled with a guess.
Yes — fragrance/aroma, flavor, aftertaste, acidity, body, balance, uniformity, clean cup, sweetness, overall, and defects, rolling up to a final score. You can also define a custom form if your table runs differently.
Each session is one recording, and on Roastery Pro your team members have their own accounts — so calibration sessions can be logged per cupper and compared.
Each voice extraction is one AI action, like a roast readout or a chat turn. Roastery includes 500 actions a month; crossing the ceiling never blocks you mid-session — overage is flagged gently instead.
Cupping and QC are part of Roastery ($149/mo) and Roastery Pro ($349/mo). The Free plan focuses on roast logging and the readout.
QC that actually happens beats QC that's perfect.
Try a spoken cupping in the demo roastery — watch the form fill in, fix one field, save. That’s the whole workflow.