QuickWhisper
QuickWhisper is a macOS application for transcription, dictation, and AI summarization using OpenAI's Whisper model. It runs entirely on-device with no cloud dependency required.
The application transcribes audio from local files, YouTube videos, online meetings, and system audio. QuickWhisper can record meetings with calendar integration while keeping the recording interface hidden during screen sharing.
System-wide dictation works across all macOS applications, replacing keyboard input with voice. All transcription runs on your Mac.
AI summarization is available through cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, Groq) or on-device via Ollama and LM Studio.
QuickWhisper also includes batch transcription, Watch Folders for automatic background transcription, speaker diarization, Apple Shortcuts integration, and webhooks for third-party service integration.
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EKHOS AI
EKHOS AI is a secure offline transcription software developed for professionals who work with sensitive audio data. It performs accurate speech-to-text conversion without relying on cloud services, ensuring that all files remain local and private. Designed with legal, medical, academic, and research use cases in mind, EKHOS AI supports common audio formats and offers features such as timestamped transcriptions, multi-speaker diarization, segment tagging, and export to multiple text formats. An intuitive editor is included to review and refine transcripts directly within the app. The software also supports real-time audio recording and playback. EKHOS AI is built to perform reliably on a wide range of Windows systems, offering practical functionality for users who prioritize data control, security, and data privacy.
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MAI-Transcribe-1.5
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is Microsoft AI’s production-ready speech-to-text model for turning noisy audio into highly accurate, domain-aware transcripts across 43 languages. It delivers consistent, high-accuracy transcription across languages, accents, speaking styles, and challenging audio conditions, with automatic language detection included. The model is designed for real-world audio where speech often comes through conference rooms, phone lines, busy streets, low-quality recordings, background noise, and overlapping speakers. MAI-Transcribe-1.5 adapts transcription to domain-specific terminology, making it ready for captions, call analysis, accessibility, meeting transcription, doctor’s notes, pharma customer calls, content workflows, and other enterprise speech use cases out of the box. It uses contextual biasing to improve recognition of specialized vocabulary, names, industry language, and terms that generic transcription systems may miss.
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RiverScript
Transcribe everything you can hear on your computer
Capture and turn into text everything you can hear on your computer – meetings, podcasts, any videos with Live Recording Transcription from RiverScript. Your sound – your rules. A multi-model AI architecture combining leading speech recognition models from ElevenLabs, OpenAI and Deepgram. Interactive editor, timecodes, speaker diarization. Lightning-fast desktop client for Windows and macOS, built on Rust. Supports audio and video files up to 50 GB and 8 hours long.
● works with audio and video files up to 50 GB, including batch uploads
● has a built-in editor and an interactive media player
● translates transcripts into other languages with AI
● generates subtitles with clickable timestamps
● performs speaker diarization
● creates AI-powered summaries
● lets you ask AI anything about your transcript
RiverScript – transcribe everything!
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